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Christmas Past

If you’ve never seen, I’ve been making holiday comics for years.  These are longer ones, of older Christmases:

Something Nice - a time jumping comic.

Christmas Eve - sometime in the early 90s.

Cookies - The only time I didn’t make it home.

Christmas Eve - harder to tell what’s going on when there are 3-4 more people in the house, and my cartoon shorthand for all my sisters is basically the same. There’s a rough guide though.  

My cartooning is just so sharp!  Och yeah, a perfect likeness of everyone all the time and so distinct.

Good morning I hope you are up and at em

parent senses of humour 

family all here at last

Mom didn’t know our sister Maura was coming home

Mom didn’t know our sister Maura was coming home

critique

critique

Like many families in Nova Scotia / probably lots of places today, everyone’s worried about the weather as all of my sisters head home.

Like many families in Nova Scotia / probably lots of places today, everyone’s worried about the weather as all of my sisters head home.

Mom will break a heart.  Then business as usual.

afternoon

afternoon

learning and media 

oh dear. 

Still here, other sisters arrive tomorrow.  Mom and I made a little greeting

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“You’re looking tin” is the way it’s pronounced if we’re being accent-honest

“You’re looking tin” is the way it’s pronounced if we’re being accent-honest

hangin with dad