Yes, you.

Thanks for visiting www.cooljerk.com. This is not intended to be the best-designed Web site on the planet - merely an online home for my strip. I appreciate any feedback you have to offer. I will read every letter I get and try to reply to each one of you.

What are my intentions?

Cool Jerk needs a home, whether that be in newspapers, magazines, comic books or an anthology. Right now I'm doing the "viral marketing" thing and hoping that word-of-mouth will do a lot of the legwork for me.

But first and foremost I just like cartooning and conveying my thoughts and half-baked opinions in a visual form. OK, not really. I have an ego the size of that one woman's 300-lb. tumor and really get off on saying, "Go to my Web site." Hot-cha, baby.

Thanks!

I have so many people to thank it's not even funny. Thanks to Go Nagai, the creator of Devilman, Kekko Kamen, Tranzor-Z and Cutey Honey. Thanks also to SeaWorld's Kelly Terry and the delightful Mrs. Valerie Wagner who single-handedly shut down Napster with her relentless Metallica downloads. The Aquabats for their gracious guest-appearance in my strip. Go see them in concert (they play cheap gigs to fund their crime-fighting activities)! Also: Multimedia marvel Michael Evans of South Wales stumbled onto the 'Jerk and took a minute to say hi. Also to Nina Kim, Kris Lindblad, David Poller, 'Maryland' Megg, North Carolina's Michael Whitley, Denise Renfro, breakfast buddy Lisa Ferguson... and Bridget Nowlin, who has been a Doc Splatter fan for a decade and motivated me to resurrect him. Tony James a.k.a. 'TJ boSSS' of Sigue Sigue Sputnik, who actually personally sent me an email. It was three words ("Your comic blows"), but I cherish it. Joke.

Mahalo to Hawaii's Kurisu, Scott & Libby, Neal and Joy. Plain ol' non-Hawaiian thanks to Yabuken, Jim, Childs, John & Kim and Unca' Dave for being the best. Dan Haley of Pasadena City College who said, and I quote, "Your website is a warm wet piece of you no what" (sic). He denies this, of course, but I'm flattered. I like pieces of warm I-know-what. Some of my fondest memories involve pieces of warm I-know-what. Bruce Burton of Tampa, Fla. gets a nod for investigating my site. And careful reader Darlene Alilain discovered Goremonger's awful truth (and fed him tiramisu and homemade ice cream).

ALSO: Locally, Rubio's Fish Tacos for making me chirp. Reese Witherspoon and Jennifer Lopez for their respective anatomical curiosities. Aetna Select Choice HMO, for giving my sprained ankle all the casual indifference a $5 co-pay could buy, Siouxsie Sioux (of The Creatures) who looks pretty good for being 70 years old. Valerie Antkowiak, Scott Downer, my folks, Donny 'Cha Cha' Asmussen, LA Times Orange County Edition infographics staff, Alan Davis, Yar! Bob-E Adams, Jennifer "Whoopsie-Plops" Sizemore, Cory Freeman, Calder Chism, Debbie & Todd, Kay Gore, Bob, former monkey wrench Nikki, Monica Medusa, the Wilcox family, David Hasselhoff, Janeane Garofalo, The Go-Go's, E.G. Marshall and Frank Sinatra.