On With the Shoe Author:Jeff MacNelly Shoe deals with the day-to-day foibles of a group of newspaper employees and their families, all of whom are portrayed as anthropomorphized birds, in the fictional locale of Treetops, East Virginia. P. Martin "Shoe" Shoemaker is the cigar-smoking editor (patterned after Jim Shumaker whom MacNelly worked for at the Chapel Hill (NC... more ») Weekly) of The Treetops Tattler-Tribune, whose difficulties with his various ex-wives is legendary. He is the boss of Cosmo & Loon with a very similar management style to Mr. Dithers in the comic series Blondie.« less