What paper are you in? That's the question I'm inevitably asked each time I tell someone that I do a comic strip. (Other than "How do you come up with your ideas?") I can't blame people for asking, because that's where comic strips belong, right? At this moment, I can confidently say that we're in about 20 papers, as if that somehow justifies me as legitimate. Does a comic strip need to be in a newspaper to be legitimate - or profitable? I also get asked how the "Syndicate Game" works. How, exactly, do you get IN papers? Since most editors prefer to work through a syndicate, here are the …