SPECIAL FEATURE: ASK ERIK

The Midtoon Herald, April 20, 2009

Veronica, a six year-old from California submitted the following question to our ASK ERIK feature:

HOW COME JAVIER NEVER CHANGES HIS SHIRT? SHIRTS TEND TO GET DIRTY YOU KNOW?

ERIK ANSWERS:

Hi Veronica,

I'm glad you asked. I am going to give you two answers, the short one and the long one. Since you seem to be a very perceptive girl, and to force the rest of the readers to read through the entire article, I'm going to give you the long one first:

LONG ANSWER:

Midtoon is a Comic strip (duh!) and as such follows on the tradition of other (older) comic strips. Apparently, back in the day, comic strip authors did not think that readers would be sophisticated enough to recognize their characters unless they always looked the same, so you had characters that never changed their look for years and years. This of just how many plastic surgeries these poor characters must have undergone to keep their looks unaltered, some of them for 50 years!!!

In recent days, however, comic strip authors are a little bolder in making changes to their characters. Midtoon, a modern comic strip, allowed one of it's characters (Mabel) to change her looks recently, just because she was tired of her red hair. Others, like John (the dad) and the New Guy, whatever his name is, have been changing shirts for a while. I love to wear black, but the shirt I have been wearing recently (the one that says THINK) is not the same one I had before. Characters like Jennifer and Mr. Green have never changed their clothes. Javier wears a very characteristic T-Shirt and he loves it. Of course, you can expect that if he wears it every day, it will not last forever, will it? Soon he will have to change it, I guess.

SHORT ANSWER:

Because my little brother is a little pig.

Thanks again for your question, Veronica.

Your good friend, Erik

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