'Paws' up, little monsters

I've been working on "Paws," my new comic panel. It' a redo of Tom the Rabbit and Jacomo the mole, who are both there. Only Tom is called Tombo now and he looks a little different. I've redone a bunch of characters and refreshed the whole thing.

I was calling it Tomversation, but my gag-a-day panel is called that so I needed another name that made more sense for the animal characters in Coconut Cove.

As I've been redoing the comic I've come across old Krazy Kat comic strips, which I always loved, and also King Aroo, which I was not too familiar with. I am in love with King Aroo now, Jack Kent's strip which ran from 1950 to 1965. I love the humor and simple drawings. I bought a couple of compilation books and they drew me right in (no pun intended).

At one point, I thought that Paws might be part Mutts, but my characters aren't that gentle and "real." I'm closer to Krazy Kat and King Aroo, a mixture of the two, perhaps.
My plan is to start publishing daily in the fall, probably October. I'm contacting syndicates now with the work and if I don't hear back, I'll just start my own thing, which is really the way to go these days. I like keeping the panel format because it works very well on social media, especially Instagram.

I'll publish at PawsComic.com daily and other places and I also have been creating a widget that would allow anyone to place Paws on their own website and no cost to them. It will update daily at midnight when the panel updates and after they put the few lines of code in, that's it, nothing more to do. It's free, fresh content, daily.

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