Dawn: Browse The Strips

Thursday September 9, 2021

Lynn's Comments: Around this time, the newspapers began to colourize the daily strips and often without consulting the cartoonists' own colour charts. This meant mismatched hair colours and different clothing in different papers. One newspaper colourist made the Miss Edwards character Black, which made a change back to caucasian rather difficult. Readers in that area appreciated seeing a Black teacher in the mix. Eventually, correct colour palettes were established, but not before some interesting errors had been made!

Saturday September 18, 2021

Lynn's Comments: Candace was an outstanding character to work with. She had a raw edge and an independence the other girls admired. Underneath, she had a troubled soul. I never had the opportunity to give her the spotlight and show readers what I knew about her. Again, the restriction to one statement a day made some stories impossible.

Tuesday September 21, 2021

Lynn's Comments: My brother and I caught our dad on his balcony, smoking—after he swore that he had quit. He put the cigarette behind his back and Alan said, "Don't look now, Dad...but your elbow's on fire." Alan has a great sense of humour! So many cartoons were based on real comments and real situations.

Friday September 24, 2021

Lynn's Comments: I got into some trouble, of course, for showing the kids smoking. Because a situation like this is not resolved until the next day, readers were left with a disturbing image that bothered them for 24 hours. I would often get an angry letter soon followed by an apology from folks who saw that the situation was just a set-up to be appropriately dealt with later, or so I hoped.

Saturday November 27, 2021

Lynn's Comments: The Miss Edwards character connected me to some wonderful people. In order to research life on wheels, I was challenged to participate in wheelchair rugby! Let me tell you, it is a wild and difficult game. I didn't have a chance!

Wednesday February 16, 2022

Lynn's Comments: When my brother and I were kids, our cousins came to stay for a few weeks. Rob and Josie shared our rooms, and within a few days we were at each other’s throats. Our cousins had gone through all of our stuff and we felt violated. From the cousins’ point of view, they were just looking around. We saw it differently!

Friday February 25, 2022

Lynn's Comments: Here I drew a young man I had seen on the street. His hair was multicoloured and standing like a fan—straight up and rigid. I figured that you don't go out in public like this unless you want attention, so I asked him how he had done his hair. His answer was, "wood glue and bingo dabbers." What fun!