Other people’s characters

I recently drew a comic strip that featured characters that are not mine. Neither are these two:

hungry for adventure

Who are they? That’s up to you to determine, dear readers! First correct guess wins an advance copy of my new novel A Bit of the Shist due to drop in Fall 2006 from Arbitrary Building Press. It’s a saucy, sweet coming-of-age drama set in Victorian London.

Pre-order today! Critics are still praising my last novel, Tutti:

“Yes! There are over fifty thousand words in this book!”
—Richard Oppenheimer, National Novel-Writing Monthly

“If you wrote an ending to this book, I would read it!”
—Vince Vincent, Federated Book Inspection Weekly

“[The dialogue and characters are not] awful!”
—Lee German Suchy, Book Magazine Journal Report