Newsmakers

You're demanding papers run "Opus" at half a page. Are you trying to incite a revolution?

Yes, revolution. The curious should contact their local paper's editors and suggest they give the heave-ho to all the comic strips that (a) outlived Strom Thurmond or (b) are produced by people that are either hired lackeys, distant relatives to the creators or (c) dead. Then fill the space with comics drawn by still-breathing artists.

How will fatherhood color the new strip?

One grim suspicion: more toilet humor. Which is fine, as I'm pulling back the political stuff.

In an age of flight-suit presidents and body-building candidates, how can you resist?

With the assistance of an unbreakable four-week lead time for publishing. Mr. Bush could start and finish a ground war with San Francisco in that window.