http://spotlightnews.com/blogs Matt Zalen is the creator of "Back 2 Basics," a self-syndicated cartoon about an eccentric family living in a world which is even crazier than ours. Since first being published in November 2007, the strip has been picked up by 16 papers, making it one of the most popular self-syndicated features of the year. en-us 60 Sat, 16 Aug 2008 10:34:14 -0700 B2B Exposed Ten years ago I was working in a nice, artificially lit office in Washington D.C. It was a small company, with not more than two dozen employees, and it was located in an upscale http://spotlightnews.com/blogs/mzalen/view_blog.php?blog_id=1218908054 http://spotlightnews.com/blogs/mzalen/view_blog.php?blog_id=1218908054 Fri, 01 Aug 2008 08:38:32 -0700 B2B Exposed This blog was written on July 26, 2007 Last night, at around 9:00 p.m., I was almost certain that a beetle had crawled into my pants. Now just to be clear, I was sitting on http://spotlightnews.com/blogs/mzalen/view_blog.php?blog_id=1217605112 http://spotlightnews.com/blogs/mzalen/view_blog.php?blog_id=1217605112 Wed, 16 Jul 2008 08:32:29 -0700 B2B Exposed They say a punch line is all about timing – that even the slightest pause, a wrong word, or a strange look could kill the whole joke. While I have always known this to be http://spotlightnews.com/blogs/mzalen/view_blog.php?blog_id=1216265549 http://spotlightnews.com/blogs/mzalen/view_blog.php?blog_id=1216265549 Thu, 03 Jul 2008 05:40:20 -0700 B2B Exposed Last week George Carlin died. I was never really much of a Carlin fan. To be honest, I can’t even remember one stand-up routine he did, probably because any time I saw him on http://spotlightnews.com/blogs/mzalen/view_blog.php?blog_id=1215088820 http://spotlightnews.com/blogs/mzalen/view_blog.php?blog_id=1215088820 Wed, 18 Jun 2008 10:12:07 -0700 B2B Exposed The term “perfectionist” is applied way too loosely nowadays. For me, I started using it when I first began thinking about professional cartooning. And to an extent, I was http://spotlightnews.com/blogs/mzalen/view_blog.php?blog_id=1213852327 http://spotlightnews.com/blogs/mzalen/view_blog.php?blog_id=1213852327 Thu, 05 Jun 2008 03:06:36 -0700 B2B Exposed Okay, let me just make something clear: My father never got kicked out of any retirement home, my wife likes him, and she has never thrown me or him out of the house and forced us http://spotlightnews.com/blogs/mzalen/view_blog.php?blog_id=1212660396 http://spotlightnews.com/blogs/mzalen/view_blog.php?blog_id=1212660396 Wed, 21 May 2008 11:55:11 -0700 B2B Exposed Evolution DOES exist. In the cartooning world, at least. Back in the good ol’ days, cartoonists were hired by newspapers to draw comic strips specifically for that paper. The http://spotlightnews.com/blogs/mzalen/view_blog.php?blog_id=1211439311 http://spotlightnews.com/blogs/mzalen/view_blog.php?blog_id=1211439311 Thu, 08 May 2008 04:44:51 -0700 B2B Exposed Although this blog was first advertised in the same Spotlight issue which launched my comic strip and which printed a story about me, I feel an introduction is nonetheless http://spotlightnews.com/blogs/mzalen/view_blog.php?blog_id=1210247091 http://spotlightnews.com/blogs/mzalen/view_blog.php?blog_id=1210247091