In case the attention lavished on local authors in this week’s NCJ Book Issue has you feeling a bit jealous, we at the Journal wanted to give you, the readers, the opportunity to do some brief writing of your own.

Like, really brief.

This week’s cover features Seven-O-Heaven star Will Startare delving into local author Amy Stewart’s latest word brick Wicked Bugs (see Wicked Popular). Here’s your challenge: How would/should/could Will react to Amy’s prose?

Your mission, should you be bored enough to accept it, is to author your own one-panel comic to be included in next week’s Journal. Hell, we’ll even throw in copies of this issue’s featured books. Sound fun? No? Too bad.

Don’t blow this, Humboldt. Write now.

(E-mail your wit to editor@northcoastjournal.com. Do it.)

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25 Comments

  1. Why not also, or instead, have us post submissions on the blog so we can enjoy every submission?

  2. Post away! But, fear not, we do plan on posting anything coherent we get in comic form next week.

  3. “When down came a spider and sat down beside her…” OMG! Not that! Anything but that!

  4. “Th…Thhh…The bu…The bug wh..The bug was…The bug was meeeeee…meeeee….mmmeeeeaaaan!!! Yes! Yes! I got it!”

  5. “How do they publish books without filling them with ads for grow shops, casinos and pot doctors?”

    OR

    “Amy writes for us and all she gets in payment is this stupid cartoon”

    OR

    “I can’t wait until they post this book on a torrent site so I can read it for free!”

  6. “Gromphadorhina Arkleytia”…I did not know there was a subgenus of the hissing cockroach.

  7. I don’t have a desire to write the cartoon, but I do have a comment that involves it.

    While I am sure that Amy Stewart’s new book is as reasonably good as her last, it seems like the Journal has gone overboard in helping her to promote it.

    Don’t you think that placement on your cover, three other high-profile editorial placements, a cartoon contest, and a (probably free) ad is a bit much?

    I sure do, and with all the other things that have been coming out of and about the Journal recently, I am concerned for the rag’s integrity and credibility.

  8. Jeez…now do I want to write a silly caption for the photo or for solar bozo’s comment. Hmmmm.

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