Monthly Archives: April 2016
Saturday, April 2, 2016
Sunday, April 3, 2016
Monday, April 4, 2016
Lynn's Comments: The two-step was one dance we did manage to get down. When we figured the waltz was sort of like a slow polka, we aced that one, too--but anything else was a shuffling tangle of feet. I now watch "Dancing With The Stars" with my mouth open in awe. (I might also be eating popcorn.)
Tuesday, April 5, 2016
Lynn's Comments: This was one of Rod's best lines. We had to stop in the middle of the lesson to enjoy the laughs.
Wednesday, April 6, 2016
Lynn's Comments: This is true. Both parties do have to want to learn how to dance. It's an activity that requires concentration and some passion, too. I think my husband regarded ballroom dancing the way I regard golf: It's a neat thing to be able to do, but please don't ask me to do it!
Thursday, April 7, 2016
Lynn's Comments: I thought for sure I'd have to change this punch line. Things relating to birth control or anything related to sex was, and still is, a very sensitive topic. Maybe the editors were feeling charitable--or maybe they just agreed!
Friday, April 8, 2016
Saturday, April 9, 2016
Lynn's Comments: In the end, the classes paid off. We actually looked forward to convention dinners--and it gave my husband the ammunition to say: "What do you mean I never do anything for you?!"
Sunday, April 10, 2016
Monday, April 11, 2016
Lynn's Comments: This strip took me back in a flash to high school and the endless deadline-related assignments we had to do. Looking back, I realized how important it was to have to adhere to a time limit. I would never have been able to do THIS job if I hadn't learned some discipline then!
Tuesday, April 12, 2016
Lynn's Comments: There is a reason why parents wait a very long time before buying good furniture. Our living room couch belonged in the nuisance grounds.
Wednesday, April 13, 2016
Thursday, April 14, 2016
Lynn's Comments: I keep saying this, but here is another true story--as spoken, line for line.
Friday, April 15, 2016
Saturday, April 16, 2016
Lynn's Comments: My brother's anxious phone calls leading up to his wedding day, were hilarious. He wasn't unsure, he was just overwhelmed. Having been a musician all his life, he'd been a very independent guy. Marriage was going to change everything!
Sunday, April 17, 2016
Lynn's Comments: "Should I or should I not cut my hair?" This was a recurring concern for me. Since I was 18, I had worn my hair long, but now and then I yearned for a new look. It took time to grow my hair. Cutting it was a huge decision, and it was one that nobody in the family wished to weigh in on. In the strip, Elly Patterson wore her hair long and tied back--the way I did. Readers would often say, "Why doesn't Elly get a new hairstyle? She looks so old fashioned--so the same!"
The thing is--a comic strip character has to have a certain "look"; a certain sameness so that continuity is kept from year to year. To cut Elly's hair would have created a major change in the way I drew her (almost as traumatizing as cutting the hair on my head). So, both Elly Patterson and I retained the same look for many years. I did, however, allow myself the fun of changing the way the kids looked. This is all part of the subtle "rule of thumb" which governs the way we draw and perceive the characters in syndicated comics!
Monday, April 18, 2016
Lynn's Comments: To heck with the history books--THIS is the "age of reason."
Tuesday, April 19, 2016
Wednesday, April 20, 2016
Thursday, April 21, 2016
Friday, April 22, 2016
Lynn's Comments: I fought this battle with my mother. My daughter fought it with me. Pierced ears were a rite of passage, then--and now, kids are piercing everything!!!
Saturday, April 23, 2016
Sunday, April 24, 2016
Monday, April 25, 2016
Tuesday, April 26, 2016
Wednesday, April 27, 2016
Thursday, April 28, 2016
Lynn's Comments: I recently confessed to my daughter that if I were a teen-ager now, I'd likely dye my hair blue and want a tattoo somewhere. She looked at me in shock! She obviously doesn't know the real me! I'd have done it to fit in, but I'd also have done it to upset my mother!