daily: Browse The Strips

Saturday March 18, 2017

Lynn's Comments: Right now, my grand daughter is living with a fairy in her house. The fairy is happily waiting for a second tooth to be hidden under Laura’s pillow. The first tooth was replaced by a two dollar coin! Fairies are more generous these days.

Monday March 20, 2017

Lynn's Comments: This really happened. So many times, the strip was a documentation of the things that happened, almost word for word, in our home.

Tuesday March 21, 2017

Lynn's Comments: This did not happen. I made this part up. As Farley Mowat said when I asked him if he really did eat mice (as in his book "Never Cry Wolf"), "If it didn't happen, It should have."

Monday March 27, 2017

Lynn's Comments: A young neighbour once asked me to draw her portrait. Sharon was 10 and in the "almost ready to bloom" stage. I drew what I thought was a sweet and accurate portrait, but she was miserable after she saw it. She said I had made her look ugly! She didn't want the portrait, but her mom kept it anyway. Years later, she apologized for her rudeness. She had found the portrait in her mom’s papers, and when she saw it again as a young adult, she thought it was beautiful.

Tuesday March 28, 2017

Lynn's Comments: I got a few letters from exhausted hockey moms when this came out. We all needed as much support as we could get!

Monday April 3, 2017

Lynn's Comments: Aaron made some wonderful friends during his short-lived hockey career. Truly the best part of the game was the camaraderie. I just wished the coaches and the parents weren't so determined to win!

Thursday April 6, 2017

Lynn's Comments: I recently discovered a "contract" written by my father-in-law and signed by my son; an agreement to do yard work for a fee. It stated that the signee had to be on time and responsible, that the work had to be well done, and the tools had to be put away afterwards. As I recall, the yard work was done once acceptably. Sadly, some contracts are just made to be broken!

Saturday April 8, 2017

Lynn's Comments: I didn't get a lot of laughs out of this one. Gardeners take their plants (and their croci) very seriously.

Tuesday April 11, 2017

Lynn's Comments: Since my days with McMaster U. medical school, I’d wanted to see a band named "The Emetix" — the word "borborygmus" was just too long!

Wednesday April 12, 2017

Lynn's Comments: At a book fair, I once saw a famous guy sign a banana. I guess the moral of the story is, "nothing lasts forever." Bananas, by the way, are nice to draw on with a ballpoint pen…Check it out…The next day, the art is even better!

Friday April 14, 2017

Lynn's Comments: These characters were fun to work with. They gave me the opportunity to see into an older girl’s life. The problem was, my main characters drove the strip, so I really couldn't focus too heavily, or too often, on the secondary ones. In a TV sit-com, there can be a variety of situations all at once. A strip is too slow and too confining.

Wednesday April 19, 2017

Lynn's Comments: I remember making mud pies–and eating them. I was so into the fantasy, it was hard to believe that my cooking tasted like dirt!