Her favorite creation shows a befuddled husband whose hand and most of his arm are firmly clenched in the family dog s jaw. His wife says calmly, First you throw the Frisbee, then you yell fetch. A bad day also provided inspiration for Deborah Peyton, creator of the daily cartoon Day to Day. The Fredericton, New Brunswick resident says her favorite cartoon didn t require any writing because, I screamed these exact words through my windshield one day. I can t keep enough tee-shirts in stock, she says.
People wear it like a uniform.
Quite a few readers failed to get the joke and placed frantic phone calls to the editor of the newspaper MetroKids, which publishes her work monthly. Cherry, who began cartooning as a way of working through the baby blues, says the cartoon touched a nerve. Whether or not to stay home with your kids will always be a loaded issue. The idea for this character came out of my need to find a way to get through menopause and keep my sanity, she says. Adams says that she used to draw a little elephant at the end of stories she wrote for her chidren when they were small.