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good at making people laugh, but been my prayer/dream that I could have even found ways to use my
I began to learn that doing that support myself through cartooning cartooning skills when ministering
through a comic is something else so that the church wouldn’t have to patients. I’ve become better at
entirely. The wording has to be to pay me at all. sitting still, but I still have to be
right, it has to go with the artwork, doing something while sitting
and it needs to make someone Eventually, I found myself (and there, so it’s nice to be able to
laugh (a lot of cartoons I see now my wife and two sons) ministering come home after a rough day with
don’t make me laugh, but who am at another small church, this time hospice and take a mini-vacation
I to judge because they are, unlike in Dumas, Texas. While there, in a drawing … or writing.
me, getting paid.) [Go ahead: try two great things happened: I got
to diagram that sentence. I DARE my comic strip “Tuttle’s” in two If you want to see my comic strips,
YA!] papers at once (Dumas and Fritch), go to www.doctortuttle.com or to
and I became a hospice volunteer. read my novels (I have written 28
After college, I entered the Soon after that, I was asked to be so far) go to www.garisonfitch.
ministry and served small the chaplain of the Moore County com. Love to see you there!
churches in central Texas and Hospice and found that I seemed
Oklahoma and Colorado, then to be good at the calling.
back to Texas. At each stop, I
always attempted to get my comic From there, I took a job as a
strip in the local paper. I was full-time chaplain with Kindred
usually successful but could never Hospice, where I have been for
get my strip in more than the local four years. My comic strip now
paper. I have always served in appears in four or five newspapers
small churches, so it has always (Dumas, Pampa, Fritch, Dimmitt
and sometimes Panhandle), and I
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