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Jody Magee's avatar

Well, I guess I won’t be sending you this really great idea I have for a cartoon.

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Clay Jones's avatar

Thank you.

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Jody Magee's avatar

You’re welcome. I love your art.

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Peter Lauridsen's avatar

😂🤣😂🤣😂

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Ginny's avatar

Very good read. Maybe people send you ideas to get validation from you. They admire your work so much, that your approval gives them bragging rights! I know when you posted my pic wearing my Pizza Rat t-shirt I was impossible to live with for a few months! 😂😂😂😉

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Karyn Milos's avatar

Okay, a Pizza Rat T-shirt is going on my list. 😁🍕 Thanks!

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Kurtass's avatar

I want a Pizza Rat shirt.

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Kurtass's avatar

Thanks. They even make it in fat guy sizes. Most of the time it is hard too find anything over 2XL. I like 3XL.

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Kurtass's avatar

Where did you get the shirt?

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Jimmy Margulies's avatar

Yes,I agree. It is part of the business that readers suggest ideas.And I have to give reasons like yours not to accept them. Hopefully in a polite way they will accept

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Clay Jones's avatar

I try to be polite too.

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Susan Johnson's avatar

Understood. Don't think I ever did that, because my ideas suck.

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Clay Jones's avatar

That's never stopped anyone else. hahaha.

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David Spitko's avatar

Thank you for your ethics. Refreshing. I am glad to be one of your sponsors - or whatever we are called..

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Clay Jones's avatar

Thank you so much.

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Kurtass's avatar

"Columnists can’t have someone else write their columns." Yet legislators can have ALEC write their legislation for them, because they are lazy. See Indiana.

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Clay Jones's avatar

None of those people write their bills.

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Bob Schnell's avatar

Cutting and pasting this to send to people telling me what to draw.

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Karyn Milos's avatar

The only issue I have with this post is the claim "you're not weird enough." I am plenty weird, thank you. However, I am not your weird. You create from your weirdness, I create from mine, to each their own weirdness, and somehow, weirdly, it all works out.

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Deborah solleveld's avatar

Strange responses today! Having artist friends I’d never suggest ideas they’ve trained me well

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Robink's avatar

This was fun to read, you covered every base to explain why you don't want us sending you ideas and I respect them all and hope others do as well. Sometimes my partner, your other biggest fan, says, "I should send this idea to Clay," and I say, "NOOOOOOOO!" But of course you're bound to piss off a few people or at least get a healthy scolding. Pfft.

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Clay Jones's avatar

tell him I said thank you...and thank you too, Robink.

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McAllister Judy's avatar

Great! You told us! Good job! What we desperately need is honesty!!!

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Karyl Miller's avatar

I Will Not Read Your Fucking Script | The Revolution is Within https://search.app/GfqnzK9FFF8BhKdFA

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Clay Jones's avatar

Shit. I forgot to add, "You are not a writer." HAHAHA. Thanks, Karyl.

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Cheese's avatar

I won’t send you any ideas but I would prefer Pizza Rat does not become an RFK Hawk smoothie.

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Clay Jones's avatar

That's the second comment over the past two minutes with concerns for Pizza Rat. I love it.

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Cheese's avatar

I’ve been scanning your cartoons and chucking/nodding for a few weeks, but it was only your mention of Pizza Rat v RFKjr that made me go back and look for him in your previous cartoons, which made me notice all the little details I had missed. (Old Roodles heh heh). Lil’ Ratty gave me a new appreciation for your work.

It’s okay, I have in my head (but not shared) his daring escape so I shall look for him again in future cartoons.

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Kathleen Reilly Mannix's avatar

Wondering what Pizza Rat, Fish Indabol and Yoko think.

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NPG BELL's avatar

Okay. I'm new to the scene. Who is Yoko?

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FelineFan55's avatar

Yoko Ono is John Lennon's widow.

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NPG BELL's avatar

Thanks for the info. I thought it was another easter egg hidden in the artwork that my tiny phone screen and old eyes missed. 😳😁

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Rosemary Orlandi's avatar

That covers it...lol

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Michael Spony's avatar

From my perspective I support your substack to see your art and read your thoughts and brain droppings (tip of the hat to George Carlin). If yours or any of the substacks I support with my hard earned money were to start using ideas submitted to them from readers I would drop my support for them.

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