Lynn's Comments: My cousin Bob is married to Lois. It was fun to mention them and then wait for the response. I did this quite often, and the gesture was always well received.
Gordon: Browse The Strips
Wednesday December 2, 2020
Lynn's Comments: The name Allyson Creemore wasn't for anyone specific...I just liked the way the name sounded.
Thursday December 3, 2020
Friday December 4, 2020
Saturday December 5, 2020
Lynn's Comments: In the second panel, I should have written: "She turns, she looks at you..." because as it is, it ruins the punchline. NOW I can see the mistake!
Monday December 7, 2020
Lynn's Comments: Gordon was a character I really enjoyed working with. He was open and honest and vulnerable. Right from the start I wanted him to win.
Tuesday December 8, 2020
Wednesday December 9, 2020
Thursday December 10, 2020
Lynn's Comments: My first movie date was with Terry Manning. Terry lived on 4th Street, just a fast walk down the lane from my house on 5th. We went to see "Tarzan" with Johnny Weissmuller. We were in grade 4.
Friday December 11, 2020
Saturday December 12, 2020
Monday December 14, 2020
Tuesday December 15, 2020
Wednesday December 16, 2020
Thursday December 17, 2020
Friday December 18, 2020
Saturday December 19, 2020
Thursday December 31, 2020
Sunday January 24, 2021
Lynn's Comments: This is one of my LEAST funny punch lines. Oh well, you can't win 'em all!
Saturday January 30, 2021
Lynn's Comments: This is one of the first instances where we see Gordon's interest in vehicles.
Monday February 1, 2021
Tuesday February 2, 2021
Wednesday February 3, 2021
Lynn's Comments: This suggests the kind of home Gordon comes from. I knew myself what his life was like. I never got to show the readers more than just a glimpse of it.
Thursday February 4, 2021
Lynn's Comments: This really raised a lot of questions from readers. I got calls from interviewers wanting to know where I was going with it and how much detail I was going to go into.
Friday February 5, 2021
Saturday February 6, 2021
Monday February 8, 2021
Tuesday February 9, 2021
Lynn's Comments: This strip left readers wondering and imagining what was happening behind those closed doors. Not showing anything more was a good thing—it kept the strip from becoming too negative, and it gave readers the opportunity to think about what goes on in their own neighbourhoods. You can suspect something is happening, but you might never know for sure.
Tuesday February 16, 2021
Wednesday February 17, 2021
Lynn's Comments: Following this revelation, I received many letters. Readers were not as interested in asking me about the life of the character in the strip but in telling me about their own abusive experiences. Stories like this brought me, personally, closer to my readers than I had ever been before.
Friday February 19, 2021
