Millie in the morning.
Originally published Early 1998

This is the first time I ever drew Ms. Mudd in the strip. It's also the single oldest strip in the archive that I didn't go back in and redraw later.

I know it's not the first time she appears in the archive...the first 40 strips or so are completely out of order. I wasn't even trying to do a daily strip at the time, nor did I see Ozy and Millie as an online project--I posted it online to get feedback that would help me get syndicated, and the strips were arranged in a way that I thought made a good syndication submission. How long ago that seems.

There's very little dialogue in this strip, which I like--I think I got a bit overly talky sometimes, later on. And I suppose it's a gag I would still do, although you can certainly see that I was trying to appeal to a syndicate--this is the sort of strip designed to be cut out and stuck on the fridge.

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