Happy Earth Day

Here is a scene from my comic strip series Our Northern Skies, which started as a commissioned work for an online seller of environmentally friendly products. When that deal fizzled, I kept on going, completed the series, and self-published the book on Lulu.com in 2016.

Most of Our Northern Skies was inspired by a 1982 National Geographic documentary called Polar Bear Alert. This is the part where Ozzie the polar bear has just been caught foraging for food in a nearby town, tranquilized, and returned to the wild. His friend Janet Silverfox, the arctic fox, finds him first...

More of this tomorrow...

New book is complete

Hooray! The Our Northern Skies book is now complete and available at Lulu.com

Happy Earth Day (part 3)

When I started working on this tracking device story for Our Northern Skies, I didn't think it would take so many jokes to get through it.

But when Ozzie finally got the thing off, it struck me as funny that the scientists would just keep on talking...

The red spheres on the device are a Doctor Who reference. They're from the sides of Daleks. "Kevin Costner with gills!!" is a reference to Waterworld.

Happy Earth Day (part 2)

I was walking near a farm this past weekend and happened upon a heard of cows. They each had big numbered tags in their ears, which reminded me of this tracking device story I wrote and drew years ago.

My first step with Our Northern Skies was a doozy. The polar bear needed someone to converse with, so I added a penguin. Oops, penguins are South; polar bears are North. So I wrote it in that the penguins got on a bus and immigrated. Flexible stuff, fiction.

The third (and final) part of this, tomorrow...