User:BarhorstCreative/Mind Over Matter Comic Strip

Mind Over Matter is an American comic strip written by Craig Barhorst. The comic strip personifies objects with eyes and a nose and presents a humerous idea of what each might be thinking in the form of a thought balloon, hence the name "Mind Over Matter". Animals and people also appear from time to time in the comic strip.

The style of the strip is pointed to as being unique and singular in it's simplicity and design. The artist, Craig Barhorst, says the strip is drawn in a simple style on purpose to tap into that child-like part of all of us. The strip also uses a characteristically different form of stylized lettering and follows a set of rules for the art. Some of those rules include that the letter "i" will always appear in lower case, while eyes and noses are added to objects, mouths are not and in most cases the actual thought balloon is absent.

At the time this article was written, 52 comic strips had been completed, with 315 others either sketched or in the final stages of production. The strip has been sent to major syndication companies and is currently in the review process. The author says he will begin self-syndication in the spring of 2010 if none of the major companies decide to  pick up the strip.

The comic strip was first published in 1995 under the name "Perspectives" in The Guardian in Dayton, Ohio. The Guardian is the campus newspaper of Wright State University,