It's a classic Slowpoke this week, though one so old that I had to spend an hour removing Zip-a-Tone dots from the original scan. (For those of you not in the know, or too young to remember Zip-a-Tone, it's a film we used to use to add dot shading to cartoons before the miracle of Photoshop.) So unless you own my first collection, Café Pompous, you probably haven't seen this one.

Taking a week off over the holidays is part of my belief system (Slowpokedom), though I haven't had much of a vacation. I've actually been moonlighting as a hostess and sommelier at a log cabin restaurant in an undisclosed location in the Rockies. (Longtime readers know I repair to my underground bunker in a cold, snowy place each holiday season.) Yes, the collapse of print media has come to this: cartoonists pouring wine in rustic dining establishments. I'm doing it partly for fun, though the extra cash is welcome too. So the next time you go out for dinner, be nice to the staff. Some of them might be syndicated. (You should, of course, be nice to the staff anyway.)