Grill Rats.....I fought with editors at The Daily Iowan , daily-iowan@uiowa.edu, for 2 years trying to get a comic strip going at the paper while I was an editorial cartoonist there. I got fed up with being treated in an unprofessional manner and eventually quit. It was unfortunate that things didn't work out. It did not have to be that way, but on the bright side, I probably wouldn't have been motivated to create this blog. Originally the comic strip was going to be called "Gravyboys", an old restaurant nickname, but www.gravyboy.com was already taken, ironically enough, by another cartoonist! They gave me a free comic book for my troubles...thanks guys!