Corridor Canoodles: Original

I had an idea!  to create a comic strip about doctors, with humour at the expense of doctors (I am a doctor; the material was endless).  To add challenge, I wanted to see how much narrative I could achieve with minimal drawing.  This is my favourite strip
(thanks to Madonna for the background music):

The National Review of Medicine published this strip (thanks, Shereen Joseph!), and it ran for one year.  The journal launched the strip with a flattering profile:

http://www.nationalreviewofmedicine.com/issue/2004/09_23/feature01_17.html

Want to see the whole series?  Of course you do!  Here's another, based on a true story:
(click on the image to make it larger, then click on the background to return)

Can't get enough?  There's more!

Corridor Canoodles - Classic

Those oldies were great, weren't they? but also, well, limited.  I quickly learned that minimal lines make for minimal narrative.  Not much story when you can't tell one bobblehead doctor from another bobblehead doctor.  I went back to the drawing board, and, with some kind feedback from Lynn Johnston -

(yes, that Lynn Johnston!)

- I developed a whole new look, with more lines and actual stories.  Here is one of my favourite series of strips:

Among the many (over 100) strips I created, I developed a sidebar theme.  Hannah, one of the doctors (okay, me), imagined herself as a physician in ancient Egypt.  Here's a taste:

Before I could show any of my new work to NRM, they changed editors and canceled my strip (darn!), but I was very into my new and improved Corridor Cannoodles, and excited for its future, and had great support from Lynn, who, on her own initiative, submitted my work to one of her "people" at UPS (United Press Syndicate, not the delivery company).  Oh, how anxiously I waited for what would happen next!  Would I realize my childhood dream of becoming a published cartoonist??  When a response finally finally came, Lee (I still remember his name) wrote that it wasn't ready for publication, and gave me suggestions for how to improve it.  Back to the drawing board I went.

It took me a while to figure out how to respond to Lee's suggestions.  I finally got a package together and sent it off to him.  I received a generic rejection letter from someone who wasn't him.  Lee had moved on, and his replacement slammed the door on my foot.  Ouch!