Monthly Archives: July 2021
Friday July 2, 2021
Lynn's Comments: When I was a kid, I loved to teach my younger brother to do stuff our mom would object to. For example, I got him to thump back and forth in his stroller so it was harder to push, and I showed him how to bite the bottom off his ice cream cone so the ice cream would drip through. I don't know why I did these things. The results didn't go well for either of us.
Saturday July 3, 2021
Sunday July 4, 2021
Monday July 5, 2021
Tuesday July 6, 2021
Wednesday July 7, 2021
Lynn's Comments: I liked the spitting sound in this last panel so much, I had the same letters put on my license plate!
Thursday July 8, 2021
Friday July 9, 2021
Saturday July 10, 2021
Sunday July 11, 2021
Monday July 12, 2021
Lynn's Comments: Looking at these last 2 days worth of strips, I see that I've used the word "ready" 7 times. If I was checking the work of a student, I'd point this out right away as an error in the script!
Tuesday July 13, 2021
Lynn's Comments: This was done at the time when my parents were leaving their house of many, many years. My mother had more plastic containers than anyone you can imagine.
Wednesday July 14, 2021
Thursday July 15, 2021
Friday July 16, 2021
Saturday July 17, 2021
Lynn's Comments: I had fun here drawing Phil and Elly's facial expressions. Nothing can show emotion like the elastic face of a cartoon character!
Sunday July 18, 2021
Lynn's Comments: Our small dog, Willy, loved everyone. The only time he'd bark with any kind of viciousness was when he saw the snow plow. He would chase it down our lane, believing for all the world that he had saved us from a monster.
Monday July 19, 2021
Tuesday July 20, 2021
Wednesday July 21, 2021
Lynn's Comments: Here it is! This is my mother's basement with all the plastic containers!
Thursday July 22, 2021
Friday July 23, 2021
Lynn's Comments: My parents never did sell their house and move to a smaller place. By the time they were thinking of this, Mom was too sick to move and Dad wanted her to stay in their old, familiar surroundings. What happened in the strip is what should have happened; how their last years should have been. I was able to hold onto both of them just a little longer in my make-believe comic strip world.
Saturday July 24, 2021
Sunday July 25, 2021
Lynn's Comments: This strip was done for the joy of drawing Elly eating watermelon. Personally, I've never liked watermelon at all!
Monday July 26, 2021
Tuesday July 27, 2021
Wednesday July 28, 2021
Thursday July 29, 2021
Lynn's Comments: Talking about favourite places in and around Vancouver was a lot of fun. I'd been told by editors that I shouldn't be "too Canadian" because the majority of my readers were American. Still, I went ahead because this is what I know! The result was a series of letters from readers talking about where they had been in BC and what they liked best about the scenery, the coast and the culture.
Friday July 30, 2021
Saturday July 31, 2021
Lynn's Comments: When I was around 30, I asked my mother, "When can you say you have truly grown up?" She replied, "Never." When her dad died, she looked up from writing the obituary and said, "I'm an orphan, now." She was over 65.
