One of the ideas I submitted prior to Retail being picked up for syndication by King Features, was a strip called Origami Man. It featured a short origami enthusiast named Ko and a living life-sized origami panda who was simply referred to as, Panda.
In the strip, Panda inexplicably comes to life one day and Ko is forced to deal with it. Being his creator, Ko feels obligated to act as Panda’s teacher in life, but finds his student less than willing to heed his strait-laced wisdom.
I loved this idea, but it was universally rejected by the syndicates. Here is week one of Origami Man. If it garners enough interest, I’ll post more. Just click on the image below to enlarge it.
Enjoy.
I’d be interested to see more…interesting premise!
Please Sir, May I have some more?
Can we have the next week’s edition, please ?
I’d like to see if Panda follows Ko’s advice or is an independent thinker !
I like it! Keep ‘em coming, please
Glad you like it, folks. I’ll post more soon.
Me too! Now that you’re a syndicated cartoonist, maybe you should try to get it syndicated again
Norm, I love the concept and the first week’s strips. Very interesting and with a lot of potential. Perhaps you can develop a full-fledged Web-based comic as a sideline.
Very interesting.
Yes, please post more.
I’d like to see this developed as a web comic, I agree it’s probably too esoteric for most editors.
Wow, this is awesome! To bad it would be a bit much for most American readers. I can see this being big as a yonkoma strip in Japan or something like that though…