For awhile, The San Francisco Bay Guardian newsweekly was paying $50 a pop for cartoons to run in their Dining section. I had a few spare moments and some vestigial drawing skill left, so I cranked out a few in my spare time because, hey, fifty bucks is fifty bucks. Eventually, the Guardian came to its senses and stopped paying out revenue it didn't have. But until then, I took them for a couple hundred in cold, hard cash.