The Cartoonist

PROFILE
What can I say about the Cartoonist that he hasn't already said against himself? The Cartoonist is a being of paradoxes. He's the weirdest one in the strip by definition -- all other characters' weirdness is a subset of his -- and yet he's also the one controlling it and keeping the strip on some semblance of a course. He attacks his drawing skills through all the characters, yet continues to draw. And while the T&R universe wouldn't have existed without him, in that universe's perspective it did exist before him and even wants him gone. And I can understand that. I enjoy watching the Cartoonist run Triangle and Robert's lives, but I wouldn't want him running mine.
HISTORY
Event	(Starting) Strip
Year 1: Puddogenesis
First appearance; creates Triangle and Robert	#1
Doesn't draw Triangle's destiny	#13
Sticks Triangle in Oz parody	#36
Draws 50th strip	#50
Triangle's personal crisis	#66
Can't draw sheep	#77
Cause of Cornersheep's evil	#89
Draws 100th strip	#100
Why he grew up so weird	#107
Orpuddex demands to be redrawn	#145
First character profiles	#151
New characters	#160
Doesn't draw Triangle's destiny, part 2	#207
Cube's real job	#222
Replaced by Aric McKeown for a day	#225
Saves Cube from Orpuddex	#233
Emergency text-mode strips	#hiatus.txt
Plot talk with Cube	#235
Fun-filled magical romp through the author's grossly twisted psyche	#247
More plot talk with Cube	#252
Backs out of Oval plotline	#260
Cornersheep's teleporter	#269
Doesn't draw Triangle's destiny, part 3	#292
The recursive comic strip cycle	#314
Year 2: Puddomancy
Fear of success	#365
Appears to Ovalnaut	#417
Tricked into bringing Triangle and Robert home	#456
Not a very good cartoonist	#477
The Madness of the Cartoonist	#529
Looks for someone to rescue Cube	#619
Freezes Tetris automata	#648
Makes deal with Orpuddex	#698
Year 3: A Quality of Pudding
First word of Anti-Cartoonist protests	#737
Admits Anti-Cartoonist protests	#743