Back when I drew the current storyline, Phil Donahue would be the start of my day. I’d wake up at the crack of noon, make myself some Corn Flakes covered in honey and sit myself in front of Donahue for an hour before proceeding to…well, do not much.

He showed me the world outside of my sleepy little suburb and I didn’t really know much about it. Politics, culture, modernisation, gender relations, censorship…it was like the first time I heard actual grown ups talk. The show had a big impact on how I approached the world from then on.

We really don’t have people like him on television any more, and I think it’s a shame. Instead of analysis and debate we have bubble gum news – disposable, distracting and can’t be swallowed. I really wish he was covering the election instead of…well, pretty much everyone else. Instead he’s making movies and doing other behind the scenes stuff. Oh well.

But still, when he’s on, he’s on.

I hope his people don’t sue me for using him in my comic! I guess I’m just using my mental image of him, really, if that helps.

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