It was a vacation weekend for everyone, not just Claire; I'm just catching up on Friday's non-Valerie Plame media news. Click on this "Prickly City" strip, then ponder this: comic strips have editors.

If you ever thought about writing your own strip, you can learn all about comics here. King Features publishes their submission guidelines, so that you know how to pitch your strip. And here's an interesting discussion on how strips are edited or pulled from the funny pages.

So what happened to the above "Prickly City" strip? Why did the editor let it go out with such a big typo? Is this like when I was an editor of my high-school year book, and my friend Nancy and I intentionally ran the worst possible pictures of the girls we didn't like?

Note to any high schoolers reading this: yearbook staff is the most powerful extracurricular activity in the school. Twenty years from now, when the star football player is in prison for a botched mob hit, the head cheerleader's grandson is starting kindergarten, and no one remembers any pep rallies, let alone the changes that the student council president made to the format of them, your classmates can look at their old yearbook and say, "Why did everyone think Patti was so cute, anyway?"