
newspaper: Browse The Strips
Sunday June 20, 2021

Lynn's Comments: This punch line is much like the ending I gave to the Mother's Day Sunday page. Just goes to show you two things:
1) I never checked to see what I'd done on Mother's Day, and
2) When you're on a deadline, you'll sometimes take the first idea that comes into your head and draw it up. This must have been one of those first ideas!
Tuesday July 27, 2021

Wednesday July 28, 2021

Tuesday November 2, 2021

Monday May 30, 2022

Sunday June 26, 2022

Friday July 1, 2022

Saturday September 24, 2022

Lynn's Comments: As we protested and blocked a city street, we wondered if we'd get our photos in the paper and be interviewed. Meanwhile, my parents, sitting at home, thought I was hanging out with friends after school. They had no idea what I was really doing.
Sunday October 30, 2022

Lynn's Comments: In Lynn Lake, Manitoba (where we lived for six years), there was a Halloween tradition called, "Trick or Drinking." Lynn Lake was a tiny town. You could walk from one end to the other in about half an hour, so you could visit a friend, drink your fill and not have to worry about driving home. "Trick or drinking" happened after the kids were done with their rounds and had gone to bed. It was a time for the grown-ups to have some fun by dressing up, going to a friend's house and demanding a drink. If the host couldn't figure out who you were, they still had to invite you in, give you a drink and then wait until the next morning to find out who had been in the house! One Halloween, a gorilla walked into our house and demanded a drink. I gave him a beer and watched as he worked it into his head. No matter what we said or how hard we tried, we couldn't determine the gorilla's identity. Around noon the next day, we found out it had been the bank manager—one of the shyest and most unlikely pranksters in town! This just goes to show you that a costume not only changes the way you look, but can change your personality as well.
Saturday November 5, 2022

Lynn's Comments: For this illustration, I used a really good die-cast model, which showed the underbody of the car. I used realistic models—of all kinds—all the time, and I encourage cartoonists and other graphic artists to buy them whenever they have the good fortune to find them.
Sunday April 16, 2023

Monday May 8, 2023

Tuesday December 26, 2023

Wednesday January 3, 2024

Lynn's Comments: When I had a puppy, I was so grateful for the daily paper. I often wonder what new pet-parents do now that the news is more likely to be read online!
Monday March 11, 2024

Thursday June 6, 2024

Sunday June 16, 2024

Sunday January 5, 2025

Lynn's Comments: I once went with a friend to visit Harry Morgan and his wife. Harry played the part of the Colonel on “M.A.S.H.” On a tour of their house, Harry’s wife showed me the secret to their long and happy marriage: they had separate bathrooms. At the time, I thought it was a bit excessive to have two bathrooms…but now that I live in a home with two upstairs conveniences, I can safely say that this is one of the reasons my partner and I get along so well—binary biffs.
Monday May 5, 2025

Lynn's Comments: As I mentioned earlier, this story is based on a true incident. My son was working for a television station and wanted to get a great story. As it turned out, the girl he saw in the accident (from a distance) was someone he knew. It was with his help and approval that this event was included in the comic strip.
Friday June 6, 2025

Lynn's Comments: This strip gave me a chance to talk about menopause and funding cuts to education…both of these problems were driving me crazy!
Thursday August 7, 2025

Lynn's Comments: A friend of ours was walking down the street with a painful, bow-legged gait. He passed one of his students who said, “Mr. Benson, I know what you were doing!” He blushed. She continued, “You were riding a horse!” He was relieved…he had just had a vasectomy.
Friday August 8, 2025

Thursday October 16, 2025
