My old comic strip, "Stewart" (Patreon)

Back in 2007, I developed a comic strip called "Stewart," about a dim-witted bison named Stewart. He grew up in the bison paddock Golden Gate park and one day decided to live with the humans in San Francisco. That's the strip in a nutshell (I've included some samples). 

One newspaper syndicate was interested in picking Stewart up for syndication. I sent them about 100 samples over several months, but ultimately it didn't pan out. My daughter was born in 2008, just a couple days before I got news from the syndicate that they were going to pass on Stewart. The joy of my daughter being born took the sting out of that rejection. 

One of the characters in Stewart was a cat named Sam. I liked that character and he likely planted the seed in me focusing more on cat comics.