The Meaning of Lila: Is 24,000 a Milestone?

Tuesday, December 6, 2011

Is 24,000 a Milestone?

Is 24,000 readers on GoComics a reason to celebrate or do we need to wait until we reach 25,000?

8 comments:

lori said...: Go for it - chances to celebrate are too far apart anyway :)

(And thanks to Meg of "Call Me Meg" for talking about the strip.)
Lori; December 7, 2011 7:50 AM
MsCrochetDreamz said...: Let's party!!!; December 7, 2011 1:38 PM
MsCrochetDreamz said...: oops, I was logged in as my "crochet nemesis" Hi JDub, it's arsmal...; December 7, 2011 1:39 PM
John Forgetta said...: Hi Arsmal. Drinks are on me!; December 7, 2011 10:27 PM
Sean said...: I can't remember ever crying bc of a comic strip but Annie's Christmas poem did.

Merry Christmas John!; December 26, 2011 7:42 PM
Anonymous said...: hey guys, congrats, your a very cool little comic
I'm not sure if you have a target demographic, but I'm a 58 year old straight and I find Lila and her adventures a total hoot; January 7, 2012 9:29 AM
Anonymous said...: so are we going to have a book?; January 7, 2012 9:30 AM
John Forgetta said...: Thanks, Anonymous. No book is planned because Lila really hasn't penetrated the market. It would be nice, though. Thanks for reading!; January 8, 2012 12:51 PM

Cast of Characters

Lila Mayfield
Lila lives in Lakewood, Ohio in an apartment not far from her folks. She graduated Cleveland State University several years ago and as a customer service representative for MetroMart, a major corporation in Cleveland. Lila hates working and admits to having no ambition. Her goal in life is to be the wife of a wealthy man and never work again.

Boyd Thompson
Boyd is Lila’s GBFF (gay best friend forever) from childhood. Like Lila, Boyd also went to Cleveland State University, lives in the same apartment house as Lila, and works as a customer service representative for MetroMart. He, too, doesn’t want a career and wanted desperately to marry Matthew McConaughy, until he found out that Matthew decided to live in the closet and shack up with a woman ;-)

Drew Worthington
Drew is also a childhood friend of Lila’s. She scored very well on her SATs and while Lila and Boyd went to CSU, she went to Kenyon College, an upscale private school in Ohio. She lives near Lila and Boyd in Rocky River, Ohio, and also works for MetroMart, but as a customer service manager. Drew is recently divorced from Tad, a surgeon at the Cleveland Clinic.

Annie Mayfield
Lila met Annie when she was volunteering at the Children's Hospital to get closer to her longtime crush, Dr. Fine. Annie has Leukemia and was an orphan until Lila adopted her. Annie is extremely precocious, is a computer hacker, and is addicted to poker.

Dr. Fine and Alan
Lila had a lifelong crush on Dr. Fine--her pediatrician--until she later found out he was gay and living with his longtime partner, Alan. Dr. Fine is now Annie's physician at the Cleveland Clinic. Dr. Fine and Alan live in Shaker Heights, Ohio, where they had planned to adopt Annie until she admitted to wanting Lila as her mother, instead.

Mr. Payne
Mr. Payne is the head of the Customer Service Department at MetroMart and is smitten with Lila. He lets her get away with a lot because he enjoys having her around the office.

Lila’s Mother
Lila’s mother is Jewish but married a Christian man and raised Lila as Roman Catholic, to the dismay of her family. She’s a stereotypical Jewish mother who wants Lila to find a man, especially since she knows Lila is not ambitious enough to be independent. She and her husband are natives of Cleveland and live near Lila in Cleveland Heights, where Lila was raised.

Frankie Mayfield
Frankie is Lila’s white Burmese cat, named after Frank Sinatra.