In this character strip Murphy introduces mark , his partner. So the question is – does this strip really about the introducing my partner?
Mark met Mark in 1982, the year before I met John. At that time Mark was modeled on what I called “my someone” whom I had never met. Members of TAPS may recall my writing about the theoretical “Love of my life” at the time and earlier. Mark was younger than Murf, as I thought my “someone” would be—it turned out that John is actually older than I. Which he has always delighted in reminding me of.
Since John and I met, Mark has become more John-like. Like any fictional character, Mark is an amalgam of characteristics of various real people, and I’m not telling who. In some ways, he is very much like John, and some of the strips that follow are virtually transcripts of anecdotes that happened in our life together—but I’m not telling which
Even a cartoonist gets a little privacy.
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