Brian's quite remarkable blog of wonder.

I've gotten a job doing editorial cartoons at the Daily Iowan. I applied for the hell of it, and now that I have the job, it's a little scary. I've worked for a newspaper before, and I can't say I particularly enjoyed the experience (although I suppose that was more due to my own self-consciousness than anything else). What gives me a lot of anxiety now is that I've never really done any editorial cartoons, except for the few which I enclosed with my application to prove I could do them. But I suppose editorial cartoons aren't inherently very different from comic strips. I can draw, I can opine.

The other thing I'm a little worried about is hitting exactly the right topical mark. I consider most of the national news media, including most political cartoonists (liberals and conservatives alike) to be shitflingers, and I don't really want to go mainstream, lest be caught fighting on one or the other side of the shit war. I've already sort of gone in that direction with a few of my cartoons, and I'd like to squash that. Okay, so, this pretty much leaves me with local and cultural issues, and I'm not confident that that will inspire enough good material.

Bottom line, though, it's just the Daily Iowan. All I really have to do is surpass the low comedic bar set by The Ledge, and I can feel good about satisfying readers.

I've been watching so much Arrested Development lately, I keep expecting Ron Howard to start narrating my life.