The Comics

It is not often that I pick a Sunday strip for the comic of the week,but last Sunday's'[1/13/08]Stone Soup',by Jan Eliot,was this week's winning strip.Stone Soup is a fun strip about your somewhat normal American family....yes,I know,only if you consider a now-a-days,single mom,extended family as a normal(like I do).It is one of my daily reads.


The strip is unique in the fact that the characters age slightly,and while some days the strip has a timeless quality to it,other days it seems fresh as today.One of the perks of the strip is the single mom,Val Stone's yearly book club meeting with female characters from other comic strips(Rose Is Rose,Cathy,Dilbert,For Better or Worse,Zits,etc).This book club is what originally brought me to the comic.The art is great(Do the other strip artists draw their characters?)...and it looks like this might be the only time we are going to met the whole book club this year(drat!).That is why this is the comic of the week.