The design on Pammy’s shirt:

T-Shirts and Gift Ideas Index
for this “wOOhOO Happy to be an American!!!” design

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Writing Woes Party Coffee Mug (Large)

All Gift Gear for this Comic (T-Shirts and more)

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You can get Pammy’s apron
(or a “One Hot Tomato” t-shirt)
HERE

or, if you prefer, there is also a
Big Juicy Spicy Tomatoes
t-shirts and apron design

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Meet our main character: Pammy. Like most writers, she spends most of her time writing rough drafts, editing, and doing all the work that it takes to get work. She occasionally gets in “final draft” mode (see method writing).

By the way, that’s not some sort of beanie on her head; that’s her eraser. (You’ll notice by its shape that she seldom literally uses it. Pounding her head on the delete key doesn’t change the shape of her eraser.)

Despite any of her claims to the contrary, Pammy is not semi-autobiographical.

Both friend and foe, this is Pammy’s muse. (He looks suspiciously like and similar to her To Do List “ideas.”) Pammy’s muse stars in Introducing My Muse and also appears in Ideas.

This character is every writer’s nemesis: Edith the Editor. Edith makes her debut in What Happens When the Editor Arrives.

Meet Pammy Pencil’s decorator friends — Lowell and Christopher.(Characters receive arms as needed.) Get the idea that somebody spends too much time watching HGTV and Discovery Home? Lowell and Christopher make their debut in a comic strip about Lowell and Christopher’s first decorating book.

From left to right, these are Pammy’s tech writer friends Joe, Eric, and Tom. They make their debut in Book Party Realities.

This is Preston the poet. He’s a bit of a flamboyant character. Poetry Contest Winner explains the look on his face.

These friends — bestselling authors Richard, Janet, and Jennifer — have achieved that which Pammy still dreams about. (Pammy, however, only wants fortune. She prefers to leave the fame — and risk of stalkers — to others.) They make their debut in Book Party.

These are some of the Cooking With Pam kids who occasionally hang around Pammy’s kitchen. Left to right, they’re Taylor, Charlie, Caleb, Braden, Courtney, and Jemma. (You can tell that they’re kids because they’re not yet old enough to stand on their points!)

Meet Thera Pist. When Pammy dons her gray suit and assumes her counter identity, you can be assured that something’s inspired her to go to work as an Observational Therapist. You can see Thera Pist at her new home on The Observational Therapist.

The Settings:

This is one wall of Pammy’s office. Notice the view of the lake outside the window!

This is the room that adjoins Pammy’s office — used in Writing Ideas. Once I figure out how to come up with the perspective stuff with which I’m satisfied, I’ll eventually use this room to show all of Pammy’s writing tools that talk about her behind her back. (Writing tools are NOT passive, you know! Pammy isn’t paranoid; she’s realistic.)

Other Stuff:

This is my first computer “coloring” creation, circa 1997. (Unfortunately, I wasn’t smart enough to save the enlarged original in high resolution. I only saved the resized jpeg.) You’ll notice this picture on the wall of the room that adjoins the office. A “print” also appears in Lowell and Christopher’s shabby chic historical reproduction room. This blue rose image also shows up in some of my Chronic Illness Realities and The Observational Therapist comic strips.

This is my first (and, thus far, only) creation done in PhotoShop. I now use Paint Shop Pro. [Sept. 2008 update: I recently added Adobe® Creative Suite® 3 Master Collection to my software collection, so I anticipate using PhotoShop and Illustrator in the future.] That “drawing” is adapted from a picture of me. It’s part of a banner on some of the book pages on RiceHahn.com.

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Copyright © 1999-2008 Steve Langille
Used by permission.
All rights reserved.

You can see more comic strips at Steve Langille’s Strange Breed Cartoons.

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Images by Peter S. Conrad

Copyright (c) 1999-2008 Peter S. Conrad
All rights reserved.
Any use of these images is forbidden
without the expressed written consent of the artist.

You can learn more about Peter S. Conrad  by visiting his Web site.

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