For her birthday we took Chloe and two of her friends to Oaks Park, a small but fun amusement park here in Portland. Above the trio won quite a few ducks in the “Duck Catcher” game.
Chloe’s been here many times over the years, and she has a ritual of playing the fish catching game. Here they are with their prizes.
Rides!
Look! She’s tall enough!
Yes, this is the AtmosFEAR ride, the one you heard about getting stuck with the riders upside down for an hour. The girls rode it several times.
So, I started this for Chloe by drawing the first panel with the chicken with a hot dog… The order of the panels is a little hard to figure out, but let the epic battle begin!
Chloe has one more year at her current school, and we’re planning on getting her into the Arts High School the year after! A few days earlier we did a comic jam with a friend of mine who is a professional illustrator and animator.
We haven’t figured out an end for our Cat and Snail story. If you’re wondering, the first cat is by S. W. Conser, the second by the 13 yr old, and the childish scrawl is mine.
Our cold snap is coming to an end, much to the relief of the people out there who lost power. Ice storm last night and today we went out in a light drizzle to see if we could sled.
Here in the Pacific Northwest, especially in the lower elevations, snow is pretty rare. It also often turns to rain quickly and opportunities for sledding here in the Willamette Valley are few and far between. When it does snow, it tends to be pretty wet but during this cold snap it’s been very dry and produced a very good sledding field around the corner and it stuck around a second day! So we went back for more!
