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Read my editor’s blog if you want a real blog on this one.

My editor told me he wanted something on the Olympics last Thursday and gave me free rein over the angle and even the subject within the Olympics. There’s a lot to choose from, but nothing really clicked. There were a couple of decent ideas but we didn’t get there, so we started again Friday morning.

On Friday morning, I drew my cartoon for my newspaper clients and then had breakfast. While having breakfast, I saw a news report about Putin and Xi hanging out the day before the opening ceremony and…ding. I got my idea.

I think I sent two ideas, but I knew this was the one and it was.

The one thing I didn’t want to do was use a sports analogy and be boring. I also didn’t want to draw a cartoon that said nothing except covid is at the Olympics. I hate those things. Didn’t we just do a bunch of those for the Tokyo games?

I actually haven’t followed the Olympics at all since I landed in Las Vegas. I’ll catch up when I get home Wednesday.

Music Note: I rocked out to the best Foo Fighters album while drawing this, “The Colour and the Shape.”

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