This authoritative sounding fellow was ahead of me in a long lineup at Loblaws this morning. There were hardly any lines at the two checkouts for 1-8 items. “items just means kinds of things he says, looking at my cart.

By that reckoning I only had 6 ‘items’ even though I [...]

Brewster is dumb as a box of astroid chunks but good hearted and well meaning as characters in the strip are always pointing out. There is a perennially evil scientist and a kid that is constantly used by him as a guinea pig (but survives), learns nothing and continues trustingly to be the [...]

Keep studying & admiring Jan Eliot’s artwork; the way she brings nature into a large percent of strips, her flawless anatomy drawn comic style with the four fingers, each panel designed with seeming ease giving you a lot to notice, making each one worth several looks to investigate.
Again, as a lover [...]

This is part of a strip to show you the fine draftmanship, character deliniation and playfulness with the language of Barney & Clyde. Often philosophical as well as linguistically able, the strip is right at the top of my Best list.

Finally, here’s an older one about an occasional character, Bunnyneedsahug which [...]

Larson’s take on the unaware suburbanites who park badly in two spaces, swipe all the condiments at their restaurant table and hold up the line wherever they are, trying to get a few cents off, is immaculate and hilarious to those who know them.
Once I’m done noting the BEST, I’m going [...]

This perfect Start-Of-Winter cartoon coincided with a massive ice storm in our town affecting over 7000 people, mostly losing power. I sent it to everyone I could think of and got enthusiastic responses.
Glen has a dry wit that goes with his fine lines. He comes the nearest of any cartoonist I [...]

Coverly has just gotten better and better this entire January. I have wanted to put some comic strips on this blog as examples but haven’t figured out how. So I decided to try and photograph them on my computer screen. Does the picture work?
Great things about this terrific comic mind – the sideways [...]

We represent 88 years, each of us the year we were born. I’m trying to help them find some in the twenties and thirties: 1927, 1929, and 1931, 32, 34 and 1936. There are a few later years. Each of us get our own note on the piano. Our pictures will be on [...]

This great old church was once just across the green from my nearly 200 year old house. (It’s still there but a number of buildings now lie between us). The first prime minister of Canada was married here. There’s lots and lots of ancient limestone in our small city, all of which [...]

Football is on my tv as usual on Sunday afternoon. Books almost swallow up the tv which has the rabbit & pigeon statuary. As a background noise it is both reassuring & helpful as i write. Given that I have a newly-discovered Metis heritage, perhaps these animal symbols I have unconsciously collected have [...]