Yo. I dig the modern comic strip, On a Claire Day by Carla Ventresca and Henry Beckett. The strip is about Claire (duh) who recently moved into her first apartment and learns to adjust to the real world. She still has close ties with her parents as seen in these two examples.

It is a very simple comic strip in writing, art and humor. The cartoonist, Carla, comes from a greeting card background and it shows. And it works! The art is light and whimsical. The writing in each strip follows an easy-to-follow, linear path toward the zinger at the end. What I mean is that the ’setup’ for the joke is not complicated and flows like natural conversation. Nice.

This bird gives Claire a feathers up. What do you think of it?

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