Mike Shapiro: My Gag Writing Process

Cartoonist Mike Shapiro, writing over at (what else?) Mike Shapiro's Cartoon Blog, tells us about his process of writing a joke for a cartoon,"... or, as those of us in the business say, a gag. This takes time. I either sit around with a pad or do something else, like my taxes, with a pad in arm's reach. During this process I'm thinking about phrases or topics that might lend themselves to