Two years ago, when illustrator Christopher Baldwin couldn't find a distributor for his comic strip, he took a chance and went it alone. "I realized I was never going to make a dollar on this," he says, "so I decided to indulge myself."
Since then, Baldwin has turned out one of the Web's best strips. Everybody has known someone like Bruno: young, witty, well read, curious, rich with talents, and sexy, but paralyzed with depression, steeped in self-doubt, and incapable of imagining even the possibility of a defining continuing connection between her life and the real world.
The strip follows Bruno as she drops out of college and travels the US, looking for something worth looking for and meeting dozens of memorable characters, but staying faithful only to her cat, Cat. Baldwin brings this large tribe to life with light, fluid lines, a mordant wit, a rare gift for panel composition, and a genius for creating a character so real her troubles make your heart ache.
After putting the cap on his pen at the beginning of this year, Baldwin recently decided to give Bruno another go. The steady activity on his page (www.baldwinpage.com/bruno.html) and the continued stream of fan mail provided motivation. Who knows? Maybe this go-around will prove more than an indulgence.
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