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Another strip inspired by our trip to Toronto. While there, we noticed a number of people on the streets sporting skulls on their shirts, Chuck Taylors, etc. The department stores at that big mall downtown were selling various skull-patterned items. And it's not just Toronto; they're everywhere. Mr. Slowpoke, who is something of a death metal connoisseur, is mildly outraged at this crass appropriation of cranial imagery by the masses.

It crossed my mind that "Baby's First Death's Head" would make a decent, absurdist one-panel cartoon on its own. But I imagined editors used to the standard Slowpoke format scratching their heads and muttering "WTF?"

I drew this while I was in Portland at the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies convention. Most of the work was actually done at fellow cartoonist Matt Bors' house. One of the nice things about staying with another cartoonist is that you can always count on a computer with Photoshop and a good internet connection. These are things in life that make me happy.