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Time for Sour Grapes! July 15, 2026 – Tim Jones
Comic “Sour Grapes” Brings Its Grumpy Flying Dog to GoComics
Creator Tim Jones tells us why a miserable dog, a pet storm cloud, and a bad day make for the perfect comic strip.
“It took a layoff from his job more than a decade ago to convince creator Tim Jones to revive Aesop, a miserable flying dog he’d first drawn in the late ’90s. He cold-called papers, self-syndicated the strip across Rhode Island, and just kept going. Now, more than a decade later, “Sour Grapes”—which also stars Ominous, a sentient storm cloud with humanistic faults and cast of other characters—runs in more than 60 newspapers nationally and launches here on GoComics today, where it’ll update three times a week.
We chatted with Jones about grumpy characters, pet clouds, and why everybody’s got a little sour grapes in them.”
READ the rest of the article done about Tim Jones and his comic strip HERE!
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Tim Jones: Originally from Attleboro, Massachusetts, Tim lives with his wife and two daughters in Smithfield, RI. He is a cartoonist, freelance illustrator, author and comedian. He is also a member of the National Cartoonist Society and the Mid-South Cartoonist Association. He teaches cartooning, speaks at local schools and libraries and appears at various events, Comic Cons and book signings.