Archive for the ‘Dot and Lionel’ Category

Kids’ Day 2008

The hos­pi­tal here has an annual health fair called Kids’ Day, some­thing attended by about 800+ kids and their fam­i­lies. There are inter­est­ing exhibits, lots of infor­ma­tion from health ven­dors, and the kids can get their hear­ing and vision checked, as well as puppy shots. Given the rural set­ting, odds are pretty good that this […]

Dot & Lionel’s Holiday Comic

As men­tioned before, I’ve been busy — as in the case of this post. For the December newslet­ter at work I thought it would be a “fun” idea to make a comic insert fea­tur­ing Dot and Lionel. The sketch­ing wasn’t the rough part; fig­ur­ing out how to break up the actions was tougher. And the blue­line and […]

Just Had To, Yeah.

Another Dot and Lionel toon. It’s pretty clear Lionel’s me. Dot, though … she’s not any­where near as inno­cent as you might think. I get the feel­ing she goes along vol­un­tar­ily with her brother on his schemes, rather than being coerced; and she might even sug­gest refine­ments from time to time to improve on Lionel’s nefarious plans. […]

Some Things are Better Without the Kids

Our hos­pi­tal is the largest pri­vate employer in the county with a staff of around 1300. That’s a lot of peo­ple — and a lot of fam­i­lies. Each year we have a super­vised gath­er­ing of staff kids so the adults can spend some time doing Christmas gift shop­ping. There are games, treats and so on, and par­ents get the […]