We're Here Because We're Here, For One Year
FurBabies celebrated its first anniversary on GoComics on June 5.
I never thought I’d get this far.
It was insane to start a third career at age 65, in comic strips, at a time when newspapers were in decline.
Once I started I did not think I could continue for long. I even drew a ‘final’ comic strip where the FurBabies characters say goodbye to the audience and thank them.
A variation on that comic appeared on June 5 and is excerpted above. Here is the rest of it:
https://www.gocomics.com/furbabies/2024/06/05
Online comics are an entirely different breed of cat from newspapers. The reader can create their own comics page by subscribing to individual comics.
I’ve met some wonderful cartoonists and wonderful readers. It’s been quite a year.
I want to thank everyone who reads the strips and thank GoComics for taking a chance with an older cartoonist who was shifting over from animation.
It’s much more fun than doing whatever old people are supposed to do when they retire.
Thank you all and there will be some more updates soon (new podcasts are about to drop)
Congratulations, Nancy! I have been enjoying the development of “Fur Babies” in fits and starts, as the reality of moving unfolded in painfully slow motion from Sept until March, give or take, so I’ve been a bit in-&-out but it has been fascinating to seeing things evolve. I’m now settled in the Ottawa Valley family cottage so actually have some leisure time to play catch up! Happy anniversary & here’s to a joyous 2nd year with Kate and her “fur family!”
Congratulations! Thanks for sharing your talents with us. And, thanks for being a great example for starting a new career. We’ve chatted on GoComics (Solarbear), wanted to add our last names are similar — seems like one could be a misspelling of the other, as I’m sure you too have had issues with that through your life (my last name is Biemer).