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Okay, by now you know I wrote a daily comic strip near the end of my college career called Cereal. And if you read the last Cereal post, you know that I devoted a sequence of these strips to a Michael Jackson parody. Only I couldn't post anything at the time because I was out of town and I drew the comics on this stuff called paper that you can scan only if you have it with you. Which I didn't. But now I'm home so scan away. Which I have. And here are the results.

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Hey, peops. I have a fitting 4th of July post for you. A bunch of comic strips, just as the Founding Fathers intended.

A few weeks back, I mentioned how I recently located a treasure trove of my old daily comic strips for the local Boulder newspaper, the Colorado Daily. Called Cereal, the strip ran from 1983 to 1985 and included more than 400 comics in all.

Strange as it may sound, I'm reminded of Cereal by the recent and all-news-consuming death of Michael Jackson. (It's as if Ed, Farrah, Billy, Karl, and Prince never happened. Okay, Prince isn't dead but he's Prince, FFS! Shouldn't we be taking this time to thank our lucky stars Prince is still with us?!?) The years I wrote Cereal in obscurity were the same as those that MJ rocketed to superstardom with Thriller. So naturally, I devoted a handful of my strips to Thriller-era parodies. Read more »