Rhymes With Orange Newsletter #8, April 2002

Hi everyone!

Actors get Oscars, singers get Grammies, cartoonists get... A corned beef sandwich on rye with Swiss cheese, sauerkraut and mustard?

That's right, the top accolade for a cartoonist is called a Reuben, and Rhymes With Orange is up for one!

So this Memorial Day I'm heading South of the border to Mexico, where this year's National Cartoonist's Society awards ceremony will be held. It's exciting, and even if I don't walk away with something for the mantelpiece, it's a thrill to be nominated.

(If you want to learn more about the National Cartoonist's Society or about the other nominees, go to http://www.reuben.org).

If anyone has friends or relatives in Cleveland, (you don't have to come out about it publicly), please tell them the strip is now in the Cleveland Plain Dealer! It appears Monday through Saturday, and I'm pleased as punch about the whole thing.

In other hot news, a Rhymes With Orange collection of Dog & Cat cartoons will be coming in Spring 2003! More details when I know more...

ON THE PERSONAL FRONT:

It's springtime, which means it's moped season, and I've hit the streets at a breath-taking twenty miles an hour. I have a large white helmet I wear that I thought made me look cool, like Speed Racer. However, in the last week, two people on TWO separate occasions took me aside to tell me I reminded them of the Martian only Fred Flintstone could see. What WAS his name? Wait, it was Gazoo.

Here's the latest house mishap-- yesterday my partner pulled a dead mouse out of our washing machine when she took out a load of blankets. I responded to the screaming in the basement, and came down to purvey the crime scene.

There it was on the basement floor. We suspect the cats, but they're not talking. Kerry thinks it was "a little present" left for dead in the pile of blankets waiting to be washed.

One squeaky clean mouse is now buried in our back yard.

TAKE NOTE:

Just a word about my e-mail address: I can always be reached at hilary@rhymeswithorange.com. That address won't change, and it forwards my mail right now to pricehilary@yahoo.com. I've stopped my AOL address and my hprice@crocker.com address. I plan to keep this Yahoo address, but put hilary@rhymeswithorange.com in your address book and you'll never have to switch again.

Famous last words.

Hope everyone is enjoying the extra daylight.

Best,
Hilary

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