Peter Kohlsaat

Like most longtime singles, Peter Kohlsaat had honed his after-the-breakup ritual to perfection. While other heartbroken halves swear by shopping, imbibing or obsessive reading of old love letters with sappy background music, Kohlsaat took another approach. When he was feeling particularly miserable, he'd haul out his journal and write down his deepest, darkest, most vindictive thoughts. He'd work quietly, all alone, often well into the night.

Like most longtime singles, Peter Kohlsaat had honed his after-the-breakup ritual to perfection. While other heartbroken halves swear by shopping, imbibing or obsessive reading of old love letters with sappy background music, Kohlsaat took another approach. When he was feeling particularly miserable, he'd haul out his journal and write down his deepest, darkest, most vindictive thoughts. He'd work quietly, all alone, often well into the night.

Peter Kohlsaat draws from experience. So while vacationing in the Bahamas with a girlfriend last spring, he collected an arsenal of material for his cartoon, "Single Slices," which runs every other day on the comics page of The Times. "We had a five-minute walk to the Caribbean and a 15-minute walk to the Atlantic from the house we were staying in," Kohlsaat said. "We'd get into these ridiculous arguments over which ocean to go to."