As I've said before, “billable hours” are very important to lawyers. This is another gag that I've obviously slanted to appeal to my “law” markets.
Okay, so here's my beef with some (certainly not all) publications: they change my captions, without asking permission! My caption for this cartoon was "I'm a management guru — the regular guru is two mountains over." I wish I knew which editor decided to change "a management" to "the quality" — I would have loved to tell him or her that the change ruined a perfectly acceptable gag.
I'm happy to report that most publications wouldn't dream of changing the wording of a caption without asking permission. I've even been contacted by phone by editors who wanted to make a change, but wouldn't do it without asking first.
