Notes: This cartoon was my first national publication to a mainstream audience. It got picked up by "U — the National College Newspaper." I'd had comics published in College and Junior Tennis by this point, but that magazine's audience was very limited. U was distributed to campuses all across America ... though not SUNY-B. I didn't know it was out until I got a call from my sister, who was attending Bucknell University.

The first three panels are supposed to give both the sense that the "camera" is pulling back and shifting focus from the character to the telephone, and give that simple little phone an ominous, Hitchcockian quality.

The funny thing is, this comic isn't so funny to me. I really go through this same routine to this day whenever I want to call someone I'm romantically interested in. Besides, I stole the gag from Tracy Ulman.