See You In The Funny Papers

Samples of Comic Strips

This one is a memory of my niece and my great uncle.  My niece was sitting on my great uncle's lap.  She asked him, "Uncle Bud, how old are you?"  When he answered her, she looked shocked and puzzled.  Then, she told him that he was too old to be an uncle and that he should be a grandpa instead.  The only difference is that I did the comic strip word-for-word exactly as it happened.  It was given to my great uncle for a present and then later, when he passed away, it was given to my niece.  She has it framed on her bedroom wall now.  Sort of like an heirloom.

In this next comic, my brother asked me to draw this for his new wife.  The story I was told is that she grew up not liking Jack-in-the-Boxes.  She liked to turn the crank and listen to the music that it played, but she was scared to death of the clown popping out of it.  She would sit and make her Jack-in-the-Box play music and she would yell that she didn't want it to open and she held the top of the box closed to keep it from popping open.  But, to no avail, it would ultimately pop open and scare her.  My brother bought her an antique Jack-in-the-Box and this comic strip for Christmas and it hangs on the wall in their home.