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Commented Rerun: Martha's mornings

Kvalhissir

on Sept. 17, 2023

Last year I told some things about where the comic came from,
and posted old drawings.

I'm going to do a repeat of that this autumn. For a month you'll get the first strips - with comments - while I work on a project of sorts.

I really like this strip - both the story and the art.

It's not obvious from the strip, just hinted, but Martha lives alone. She is a multiple mother - two litters - and grandmother, but after the second litter left home, she and her husband divorced. They just stuck together for the kits.

Sylvia is a spinster by choice, and Milly haven't gotten around to any partners yet. This is by my choice.

A family you live with feels like something that should come up in the story. Even Charles M. Schulz, who never shows an adult in Peanuts, at least has Charlie Brown talk about his father, and many of the characters are siblings.

That means you should spend time on that. And I have other stories to tell.

If I need relatives for a story, they all have it - if I'd want to do a story about any of them and children, Martha has grandkids, Sylvia is an aunt, and Milly has little siblings.

And we have a swearword! A first.

"Fewmets" can mean (deer) dung. Basically, Martha is saying "shit".