Which brings us to the difference between Beetle Bailey and Joe and Willie. You do cartoons about that stuff, you're going to get some laughs." "But," I would continue, "you could do cartoons about things happening in this school that I wouldn't get at all, and your teachers might not get, either, because there's stuff going on here that nobody over 18 even knows about. (Sometimes a sixth or eighth grade teacher would bring me in and their kids would laugh at that lame joke, which kind of messed up my point. For instance, I'd suggest, you could do a cartoon that showed kids in a cafeteria throwing up and put "(NAME OF THEIR SCHOOL) Cafeteria" and "it would get just that. I'd talk to the kids about stereotyped cartoons anyone can do about schools. Was there ever anyone else like Bill Mauldin? I'm tied up for the next few days with some workshops for middle-school journalists, so will be posting some of the classic cartoons I used to show high school students in a presentation on the topic.
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