Birth and rebirth A couple of years later (when I was working at the Reno Gazette-Journal) I was tapped to create a strip for their new teen page. The birth of "Cool Jerk." I created a set of brand-new 17-something characters, but (conveniently) never named them - as if to reserve their identities until I had planned things out.   Go here to read the first Cool Jerk strip, featuring proto-Armpit.

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