I always have strived to prevent A&J from being a "wordy" strip, but there's no doubt almost all my early work was based on dialog. That's understandable, since I studied and worked as a journalist. As I've learned my craft as a cartoonist, however, I've become much better at the "sight" gag, or a joke that depends on visuals, such as this one. I do many of them now.
 
 
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