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Davis developed the idea for the strip while assisting cartoonist Tom Ryan in his Tumbleweeds comic strip.The awkward silence memorialized by Stack Exchange's tumbleweed badge is the emptiness of the page where the question has been posted but no one has answered it, commented on it, or voted on it for a full week. Davis saw the possibilities for gags with insect characters, and the strip was adopted by The Pendleton Times. However, Davis also approached syndicates to publish Gnorm Gnat and was rejected. According to writers Mark Acey and Scott Nickel, Davis would receive rejections for Gnorm Gnat for years. "I thought bugs were funny, and nobody else did", Davis would later tell the press.ĭavis also recounted that one editor had advised him that "Your art is good, your gags are great, but bugs-nobody can relate to bugs!" Davis took the advice to heart and ended the character's strip that December. The last strip depicts Gnorm saying "Thanks Pendleton" as he stood next the message "Merry Christmas". Despite that, Davis claimed in 20 Years & Still Kicking!: Garfield's Twentieth Anniversary Collection that he "drew a giant foot falling out of the sky, crushing little Gnorm in his last comic appearance". Davis then created the comic strip Jon, which would later be reworked into Garfield. In 1992's Garfield Takes His Licks, Gnorm was referenced as an in-joke. "Gnorm Gnat" was listed among the "Top Ten Comic Strips Jim Davis Tried Before Garfield", being placed behind "Garfield the Toaster" and above "Milt the Incontinent Hamster." In June 1997, one Garfield comic strip featured a fly talking to a spider Davis alluded to Gnorm Gnat by commenting that, "After nearly 30 years, I finally got a bug strip published."ĭavis' fellow-cartoonist Mike Peters looked back on Gnorm Gnat in an unfavorable way. Peters claimed, "We can always be thankful that Jim's first strip never made it.Gnorm Gnat has gone down in cartoon folklore as a most fortunate failure. Can you imagine a bright orange gnat on every car window? A great, huge gnat for the Thanksgiving Day Parade. Lyman is an insect with buck teeth who wears a hat.Gnorm Gnat is a gnat who Davis says plays the "straight man" who sometimes behaves like the character Walter Mitty, a trait later shared by Orson Pig.A big fat gnat saying 'I hate Tuesdays'".Īcey and Nickel explain that the characters of Gnorm Gnat were meant to be presented in a "simple, humorous style" of appearance. Davis later named a character after him in Garfield. Gougo is an arachnid with a German accent who acts as a medical practitioner. Natasha is an insect Gnorm has a crush on.Haley Hanson is young, beautiful and talented.Wench Webb is the spouse of Drac Webb who bickers a lot.Cecil Slug is a slug merely described as a stupid character.Freddy is a fruit fly who has one week to live.Drac Webb is a villain who eats other characters.Rosenwurm is a worm who is highly intelligent. Unable to cope with th Haley Hanson is young, beautiful and talented. She fearlessly sets out on her own to make her mark in the world and thinks she’s ready for anything. But nothing prepares her for the sexy Spanish soccer star, Mikel Garro.
He’s charming and guileless and sweeps her off her feet. She falls hard, yet love isn’t part of her plan and it’s not to be anyway. Unable to cope with the loss of him, her first love, she abandons love entirely. She seeks solace in the arms of strangers and fame, a tumbleweed rolling where the gusts of wind carry her, and she ends up broken and alone and near death. I was provided a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review. The story shifts back and forth between Haley's present and past and the manner in which it's I was provided a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.
Exhilarating, heartbreaking, exhausting - even repulsive at times. I can safely say I've been on an emotional roller coaster through this but I enjoyed it thoroughly. Watching the evolution of the character of Haley was amazing - although harrowing, at times. Julia Bramer's writing style is engrossing. The story shifts back and forth between Haley's present and past and the manner in which it's done was unique and extremely effective. In the early stages of the book I couldn't find much about Haley that I liked - in fact, I was concerned I would have a hard time enjoying the book because of her.
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