Book of Mormons Repeat

As you might remember, the Deseret News is publishing one of my missionary comics strips every week. This has been a hugely rewarding experience for me. Not only has it been the culmination of a childhood dream, I've also experienced a number of firsts: I got my first hate mail* a few weeks ago as a result of the newspaper and this weekend I was treated to my first brush with celebrity!

On Friday, Donny Osmond posted a scanned picture of today's strip on his Facebook timeline and wrote, "I was just sent this cartoon and thought it was hilarious! Thought you would find it amusing as well."

Needless to say, I'm feeling pretty cool right now.

*It's probably a stretch to call it hate mail. It's more like slightly annoyed over grammatical error mail.

Extra! Extra! Read All About It!

UPDATED: Today's gag comes from an idea by Hunter S.

This morning I got up early to retrieve my copy of the Deseret News. And now I'm looking in slacked-jawed awe as the first of my Mission Daze strips is available in beautiful color right there on page two of the Mormon Times section. Additionally, the paper has a nice, big article introducing me to its readership.

Nearly 20 years ago when I first began drawing the Mission Daze strips, I dreamed of seeing them in print. After submitting them a couple of times to newspapers and book publishers and being rejected at every turn, I resigned myself to the fact that the only place they'd get published would be on this website. But now, there they are: right where I first intended them to be. Now as soon as someone cuts one of those strips out and tapes it to a fridge, all my cartooning dreams will be fulfilled.*

*Well, almost. I want to now sell out with plush dolls, t-shirts, window decals, and a Dreamworks animated film.

Another Place to Read My Work

A couple of weeks ago, deseretnews.com picked up this very comic strip. Every Monday, the website will publish another strip following Elder Van Dyke through his mission. With the Deseret News, I'm trying something slightly different than what I do here. I'm publishing the strips in somewhat chronological order.

You can check out the first three strips here, here, and here to read what happened when Alex Van Dyke first received his call. Then make lots of comments and share it with your friends. (I want to make sure they don't cancel the thing on account of lack of public interest.)

Now here's a strip for this website: