It’s not always easy to love a cat…

The trials of being with a cat, and the rewards, are told in this Mother’s Day card. It was drawn under the strict supervision of Our Cat, who is greatly appreciative of all the loving care Lisa gives him. I have to admit that much of that care is given while I sleep, deaf to his meows and stares…

Happy Mother’s Day to all the women who love and care for us.

Help from our friends

Recently we had to to the “grownup thing” and update some legal papers. We did this with the help of Mary C., our lawyer. I made this cartoon afterwards to thank her for her help through the years.

Thanks to Lisa for suggesting we condense many unrelated events into a single panel, single moment mash-up cartoon (“You should have the swordfish playing the violin!”).

Everything in this cartoon happened, exactly as depicted. Well, almost exactly:

• Mary’s office does have a very high ceiling with a loft or balcony.
• There is a papier-mache swordfish stored in the loft (not entirely sure why) with just the tip of its sword visible from below.
• During our meeting wonderful violin music started to play. It sounded like it was coming down from above – it was actually coming from the violin school next door.
• We did have to put our thumbprints into a log book, as part of notarizing some documents.
• One of the documents did include the phrase “the remaining remainder,” which stuck in my head as a strange bit of legaleze.
• And Our Cat does love fish

Cartoons to the rescue!

I woke up this morning to a wonderful Easter basket full of sweet goodies.

Unfortunately, I had nothing to give my Easter bunny in return. And so I drew on my old stand-by; comics. I grabbed a piece of cardboard, roughed out a sketch, drew it, cut it out and glued it – an almost instant Easter morning stand-up.