Part of the challenge of creating a new online community is balancing the needs of the people you attract with your own needs and interests. Without putting words into his mouth, my cartoonist friend Jim loves to let his creative juices flow. But one of the underlying concepts of DrawtheDog is that our cartoons are inspired by real dogs, based on stories owners submit.
This quickly led us to two questions. The first is: what happens is you want to feature a dog that no one has submitted? The second is: what happens if you get a great idea, one that is unconnected to any submitted story?
In other words, can we give Jim the freedom to draw what he likes, without disappointing our audience? So far - fingers crossed - the answer seems to be yes.
The answer to the first question is shown above. We thought it would be fun to do a special cartoon on Election Day, and this is what Jim came up with.
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Kerry Lauerman
Joan Walsh
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