Author Archives: stripfix

Tuesday, May 17, 2016

Lynn's Comments: When you are in very close contact with an established group of people, everyone knows a bit about everyone else. Cliques form. Relationships change as new residents arrive and others pass away.

Monday, May 16, 2016

Lynn's Comments: I visit a dear friend regularly. She lives in a small apartment in an assisted living centre, and her main focus these days is on the local politics. I'm not talking about what's seen on the news; I'm talking about the day-to-day goings on in the building where she lives.

Thursday, May 12, 2016

Lynn's Comments: My (now ex) husband never forgot the indignities he suffered in high school, at the hands of the ladies for whom he pined.

Monday, May 9, 2016

Lynn's Comments: I was happy with this one. Yes, even though puns and wordplay cost me the ability to have my work translated easily into other languages--I used every one I came up with!

Sunday, May 8, 2016

Lynn's Comments: In reality, we could take the kids anywhere. They were always respectful and well behaved--or else! The restaurant "time-out" was to take the offending child to the car and sit with them until they saw the error of their ways. The hard part was knowing my own meal was getting cold as the rest of the family sat inside.

Saturday, May 7, 2016

Lynn's Comments: Even though this never happened, I get annoyed just reading this one. I have to move on now, or I'll take out my frustration on someone I love.

Thursday, May 5, 2016

Lynn's Comments: I haven't done this yet; sort through all my photographs, but I will! Someday, when the time is right, I'll actually put all my photos together in albums--in the right order. Just saying this makes me wonder if the folks who make a living doing these kinds of things really exist. If they do--I wonder if they ever get around to putting their OWN stuff in order!

Tuesday, May 3, 2016

Lynn's Comments: This was something a dear friend said to me as I was helping her downsize from her house to an apartment. It's heartfelt statements like these, which make you wake up and take stock of all the good things in your life. At the age of 68, I'm beginning to give advice, too--requested or otherwise!

Monday, May 2, 2016

Lynn's Comments: It was fun to see these dailies again. For the past week, I have been helping a friend move, and soon I will be moving to a new place of my own. I have been going through my friends' keepsakes, collections and personal things, as well as my own. It's important to go through the items we have collected and treasured throughout our lives. It gives us the opportunity to revisit some wonderful moments in our history. It also gives us the opportunity to chuck out a load of #*%$##@* junk!!!

Sunday, May 1, 2016

Lynn's Comments: This was one of those self-flagellating strips, which said in print something I had been thinking: I often missed important conversations because I was focused on something less relevant. In this strip, I've drawn Katie's favourite jacket--one I destroyed by putting in the dryer! There is also mention of my friend, Margie Palmer. Whenever I could, I'd put a friend's name in the paper to let them know I was thinking of them. This proved to be a lot of fun and even connected me to friends with whom I'd lost touch.

Thursday, April 28, 2016

Lynn's Comments: I recently confessed to my daughter that if I were a teen-ager now, I'd likely dye my hair blue and want a tattoo somewhere. She looked at me in shock! She obviously doesn't know the real me! I'd have done it to fit in, but I'd also have done it to upset my mother!

Friday, April 22, 2016

Lynn's Comments: I fought this battle with my mother. My daughter fought it with me. Pierced ears were a rite of passage, then--and now, kids are piercing everything!!!

Sunday, April 17, 2016

Lynn's Comments: "Should I or should I not cut my hair?" This was a recurring concern for me. Since I was 18, I had worn my hair long, but now and then I yearned for a new look. It took time to grow my hair. Cutting it was a huge decision, and it was one that nobody in the family wished to weigh in on. In the strip, Elly Patterson wore her hair long and tied back--the way I did. Readers would often say, "Why doesn't Elly get a new hairstyle? She looks so old fashioned--so the same!" The thing is--a comic strip character has to have a certain "look"; a certain sameness so that continuity is kept from year to year. To cut Elly's hair would have created a major change in the way I drew her (almost as traumatizing as cutting the hair on my head). So, both Elly Patterson and I retained the same look for many years. I did, however, allow myself the fun of changing the way the kids looked. This is all part of the subtle "rule of thumb" which governs the way we draw and perceive the characters in syndicated comics!