Hello. Just finally signed up to this forum this morning after being familiar with it for some time.
I consider myself a conservative. I am among the minority where I come from - Greenfield, Massachusetts - where I see Bernie's name all over everything. In this area, all of the conservative talk radio stations come in with a weak signal. This is also a town (or city, since it has a mayor system these days) without a Walmart, because of the likes of Al Norman living here. And, in many public places, I often keep my political beliefs to myself, for fear of heated discussions and disagreements, with everyone ending up offending each other.
I had also aspired to do a syndicated newspaper comic strip for years, but eventually gave up that idea, because of the changing style of drawings and humor in the comics sections, which I think is not for the better, as many of the newer comic strips for at least the past 35 or so years do not appeal to me at all, and that it seems to me that liberals dominate the field more. They also certainly do for comic strip fanatics as well. For years, I had felt discouraged to do cartooning, but have come back to it in recent years. But I have decided to do the cartooning as just a hobby, as it is more fun this way. There is no one to tell me what to put into my comic, and what not to put into my comic. I also don't have to be pressured by lots of reader mail, which I don't think I could handle very well anyway.