Because news of the publication spread via the World Wide Web, requests for the copies of the book came in from organizations and nations around the world—including requests from the National Army of Pakistan, the Canadian government, a leading luxury hotel chain based in Indonesia, NASA's Langley Research Center, and an EPA regional office, which asked to be supplied with books anonymously for fear of reprisals from the Bush Administration.
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opened a small production studio/office in downtown Anderson, Indiana, on the third floor of the historic Union Building, located at the corner of Meridian and West 11th Street.
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Six days later, Steve and Melissa Zeitler contacted Ponce with the news that they would fund the new version of "Rustle the Leaf," which meant Dan Wright would leave his position at a local ad agency and work on "Rustle the Leaf" full time.
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In late June 2004 Wright and Ponce began meeting in Muncie, Indiana several evenings each week to discuss the Rustle the Leaf project, and to develop a new creative direction for the strip.
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Also in the cast were 6 other characters: "Dandy" (a persecuted, paranoid Dandelion seed), "Fuego" (a firefly), "Paige" (a water drop), "Dizzy" (a helicoptering Silver Maple seed), "Professor Oakmont" (a sagacious Oak tree), and "Amelia" (an adventurous dragonfly).
oak leaf cluster | Oak Leaf Cluster | Maple Leaf Gardens | Tea Leaf Green | leaf | The Album Leaf | Leaf | Leaf beetle | I'm Looking Over a Four Leaf Clover | leaf beetle | Carbon Leaf | The Maple Leaf Forever | Maple Leaf Cricket Club | A New Leaf | Nissan Leaf | Maple Leaf Rag | maple leaf | the Album Leaf | Maple Leaf Sports & Entertainment | Leaf Mountain Township | Golden LEAF Foundation | Commerson's leaf-nosed bat | Bay leaf | Wheat leaf rust | Western black-bridged leaf turtle | The leaf lobes of ''Grevillea rivularis | Sweet Leaf | Ryan Leaf | Professor Pelser and a leaf of ''Senecio fistulosus | ''Persea borbonia'' leaf with leaf mining |