Thank God for Photoshop

Cartoonists have been employing copy machines on repetitive multi-panel cartoons like this one since Mr. Xerox was a boy. Now Photoshop lets us appleC-appleV elements and move them around, making complicated cartoons like this one do-able under tight deadlines.

That said, I always feel an irrational twinge of guilt when I cut-and-paste within a cartoon, as if readers have paid me by the line and insist on their money's worth. For reasons I can't explain, I usually go back in and tweak the characters and backgrounds here and there to give the eagle-eyed wannabes something to examine and form conspiracy theories about. It's a ridiculous game that only the wonkiest among us play, but I find myself wondering whether other cartoonists do the same thing.

I know this blog is read by a bunch of cartoonists. Let's go around in a circle and confess our photocopy sins. Who wants to start?