I've just uploaded my first new article in five days — longer than I like to go between adding entries, but I'm loaded with excuses. I'll spare you a recitation of the demands on my time — we're all impossibly busy, aren't we? Mostly, I'm still getting the hang of dealing with the new way of uploading things, which is a bit more complicated than it used to be. But I'll get there.

The first article added to the new site format is Bobby's World, a show I used to watch fairly often about 15 years ago. I first became interested in it when a comic book company I used to write for (I did their version of Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, and lemme tell ya, that made me a big celebrity in the neighborhood — I couldn't stand in a supermarket checkout line without my 8-year-old bragging to everybody within earshot) was negotiating to adapt it into comics. I needed to know about it so I could apply for the job of writing that comic. The deal fell through, but I kept on watching when possible, because I liked it.

One thing about it bugged me at first — Bobby's mom's accent sounded maddeningly familiar, but I couldn't figure out where I'd heard it. I finally managed to place it. She sounded just like Garrison Keillor, telling stories about the Norwegian-descended folks in his fictional town of Lake Wobegon, Minnesota.

It used to drive me crazy until I finally got it. Still, I'm delighted to add Bobby's World here. I'd probably have done it sooner, but there are so many I can't wait to add, I just can't get them all done.

As I've often said — so many toons, so few brain cells …