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Those who follow me on Facebook have already seen my new project for 2016, The Daily Sham. I post a rewritten newspaper strip every day. But if you don’t read them one day at a time as they go, it could be tedious scrolling back through my posts to read a bunch of them at one time. So as I finish groups of them, I will also be archiving them here on the blog with navigation to make reading easier. You’re welcome!

Episode 67

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It's been four months since the last episode of Zombie Marge went up. It seems even longer to me. The surgery mentioned in the previous post was a complete success and I'm on the mend. My right arm no longer goes numb or has any sort of pain while drawing. So the good news is that Marge is back in production. While I was laid up after the operation, I managed to do a considerable bit of writing. I'm far ahead on this strip as well as two-thirds finished with the next SHAM Comics projects, "The Adventures of The Nerdly Boyz." New Zombie Marge strips will be going up every other week until we get to the end of the Mothman storyline. After that, I should be able to announce some new fun things that are in the planning stage right now. For now, enjoy this new strip. Go back and reread some of the old ones to get caught up. See you in the funny papers!

Marge & Me


My eagle-eyed readers have probably noticed that there has not been a new episode of Zombie Marge go up here at the blog for a couple or three months. No doubt, they are asking themselves, “Hey, what’s the deal with that?!”

The answer is simple, I have not been able to draw the strip. For the last couple of years, I’ve been fighting off increasing pain and numbness in my right arm, caused by some bone spurs in my neck. I could work for limited periods of time, but sitting at the drawing table made it much worse. Case in point, I did the drawing above a few nights ago, twenty minutes in and my right hand is cramping up.  

I’ve tried every treatment I could find, chiropractic, steroid shots, etc., but only got temporary relief while the problem got worse. So last Thursday, I went in for surgery on my neck. It’s a couple of days later, I’m home from the hospital, and even though I’m in a great deal of pain in my neck, my arm feels better immediately. It seems that there has been no lasting damage to the nerves. So after a month or so of rest, I should be back at the board, cranking out the adventures of everybody’s favorite unholy curmudgeon, Zombie Marge. Stay tuned.

Gambling Practice

The town is all abuzz with the All-Star Game tomorrow. I thought this might be an appropriate time to post a fake ad I did a few years ago.