So a few years ago, I get on a kick, do some drawings and wind up taking a pro bono gig doing a weekly editorial cartoon for politically based website.

I never expected any money, and thought it was fun, and the exposure couldn’t hurt so worst case scenario, I have an outlet for my doodles, and just maybe I can get picked up by a newspaper or syndicate. (I did get on the short list of a major paper, but that didn’t pan out, and did some minor stuff for the AZ Republic.)

Long story short, the more free work I did, the more I seemed to attract people who wanted me to do free work for them. The Republic was cool to work with, and paid regularly without complaint, but everyone else was a headache. Even the original website seemed to treat me worse at the end than the beginning. That’s why there was an end after all.