This strip kicked off the summer of 2000, when I opted to stick around Champaign and work at the Daily Illini as a cartoonist, editor, occasional columnist and food critic. One of the best summers ever.
Also the first appearance of the mushroom as a pimp, which became an ongoing storyline soon after.
To this day B insists that I can get paid for donating blood! I can't, but I can earn points and trade them in. So there!
