First of all, happy birthday to The Daily Cartoonist, celebrating its 20th anniversary this month!
It seems that your humble scribbler has been contributing his two cents in the comments section for eighteen of those twenty years, which accounts for my tally of 564 comments (or $11.28) in Alan Gardner's round-up of voices from the peanut gallery. I didn't quite make the Top Ten (by about 80c), but I did make Alan's Commentator Cloud.
As for my own little blog, it experienced a sudden explosion of popularity in September according to the Blogspot folks, although that boom disappeared just as suddenly at the end of the month.
I don't have any explanation for it; the webcrawlers from Singapore and Brazil can't account for all of the surge. It just seems oddly suspicious that (as of today), Monday's "sneak peek" of my October 2 cartoon has gotten over 400 hits, while the full cartoon has only received 71.
My better half tells me that he has started to get a warning message about European Union regulations when he tries to follow Facebook links to my cartoons lately. There are EU rules about advertising to children and the sort of data gathering spyware with which all the American tech giants insist upon infesting everything they offer.
Finally, here's that Charles Addams cartoon from which I swiped Uncle Fester last week:
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| by Charles Addams in New Yorker, New York, March, 1946 |
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