Elly: Browse The Strips

Monday March 21, 2022

Lynn's Comments: We didn’t have a clothes drier when I was a kid. Everyone put their laundry outside on clotheslines. Apparently, the neighbours really did look at your laundry and made judgments because my mom always put the best sheets and towels on the top line where they could be seen. Everything else was hidden or hung in the basement.

Sunday April 24, 2022

Lynn's Comments: I have done this from time to time, and have had great fun knowing the poor schlub on the other end was helplessly hanging on—hoping to dupe me into buying something. As a wary home-owner, I have created some amazingly annoying one-sided speeches. I just had to be in the right mood.

Friday April 29, 2022

Lynn's Comments: Arnold Roth is a well-known cartoonist who is often featured in the New Yorker magazine. He plays the clarinet and has been known to play with a group called "Codpiece." I thought he’d have fun seeing his name in the paper. He did!

Sunday May 1, 2022

Lynn's Comments: This Sunday was the result of a "what if" scenario. I was in a department store change booth trying on bathing suits with a growing sense of doom. Everything seemed designed to accentuate my worst assets. My daughter was old enough to know not to escape and lead me on a chase through a busy mall, but the thought crossed my mind. What if I had to run out in public wearing the disastrous suit I was struggling into? This idea made its way onto the Sunday page, and the result was a flood of letters from other moms similarly disgusted by the cruel offerings foisted on us by bathing suit manufacturers.

Tuesday May 3, 2022

Lynn's Comments: In this strip, the contractor is speaking with a marked French Canadian accent. I was harshly criticized for making fun of French Canadians—until Paul himself wrote back to my critics and said that this was exactly the way he talked!