In one corner: Dave Kellet of Sheldon.

After pleasantries were exchanged, they threw down the gauntlet: Would I, they wanted to know, be cartoonist enough to accept a challenge? A week of competition between our two strips, where we’d both have to write six days of material on some everyday, innocuous, uninspiring subject matter? Say…plastic coffee cup lids?

In the other: Bill Barnes and Gene Ambaum of Unshelved.

It’s true. We did in fact challenge Sheldon’s Dave Kellett to see who could mine the most comedy out of the seemingly banal and unfunny subject of plastic coffee cup lids. All I can say is, it seemed like a good idea at the time. Come back April 2 and find out if it was.

On April 2nd, there can be only one. My money’s on Dave. But that’s just my two cents.