Who are Hope & Harry?

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Hope and Harry is a semi-autobiographical comic about my family. Hope is a lot like me, except probably better, kinder, and more patient. Harry is a lot like my husband, except not quite as funny or good looking. Hope and Harry have two daughters and a cat just like my husband and I do, and many of the things that happen to them are based loosely on things that actually happen to our kids, their friends, our family friends or more often than I would like to admit, just made up by our family over dinner.

Hope and Harry is a comic that really celebrates the lives of families and the funny and strange things that happen to them. It’s all about busy schedules, unpredictable pets, unexpected catastrophes and the world of children’s imagination. I hope you will stop by for a coffee and a cookie and be ready to listen to Claire and Piper tell you all about their latest adventure.

With apologies to Robert Frost

 

Less Travelled

This one came about after my Piper blurted out the last line at dinner one night.  This lead up to a deeply nerdy literary analysis by the two of us about Robert Frost's poem and about how most people view it as an affirmation of being a rugged individualist.  However in the poem Frost says that both paths are actually equally disused and he will be telling this story when he is an old man and be saying that he took the less travelled path, when in fact he took the path that most people took, but was making himself look to be more of an adventurer than he actually was.  It's almost as if Frost knew what was coming in this era of social media - where we only show the stuff that makes us look good, look better, instead of showing the world our true selves.

Behind the scenes I am really happy with how this comic turned out.  I don't usually set the comic outdoors so it was a challenge to set this the right way and get all the text of the poem in.  Every step forward is an improvement.

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