tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1568334561722760329.post9034711206813689565..comments2024-03-04T04:08:39.755-08:00Comments on The Fies Files: Do the BatusiBrian Fieshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16347700145666751363noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1568334561722760329.post-68397211967514988602011-03-02T09:01:02.765-08:002011-03-02T09:01:02.765-08:00That's funny. Sounds like a true corporate dec...That's funny. Sounds like a true corporate decision. I can imagine cartoonists sitting at their boards shrugging and saying "well, all right, if that's what they want..." <br /><br />RIP United.Brian Fieshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16347700145666751363noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1568334561722760329.post-7319507689418325752011-03-02T02:31:37.044-08:002011-03-02T02:31:37.044-08:00A number of years ago, someone at, I think, United...A number of years ago, someone at, I think, United Media (may they rest in peace) decided that asking cartoonists to draw their characters dancing would be a great way to create icons for strips. But, of course, other syndicates didn't do this, and the mood apparently passed at United as well. The result was that, if you were doing publicity around the strips in your paper (as I was at one time), you wound up with a mix of regular icons and icons of dancing characters. <br /><br />Actually, what you ended up with was icons you had made yourself on Photoshop, which the syndicate probably didn't want you to do but which was better than having readers think that about a third of your comics were about dancing and the rest were not.Mikehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16807727819590358834noreply@blogger.com