Obviously I’m the one with the Doctor Who obsession. To be fair, Sophie was always on the couch next to me when I watched. I also had a Tardis cookie jar for dog treats. And yes, it makes “the noise” every time you open it.
Every parent knows this wish.
I have to be honest, I superimposed my doughnut obsession on Sophie. She never had a doughnut. However, her cheese addiction was real.
One of the true joys of puppies is that they will fall asleep anywhere at anytime.
More and more I’m using this blog to find inspiration for the graphic novels. Now all I can think of is Sophie and Doug in a noir detective mystery. I’ll jot that down for book 4.
Not sure how this one didn’t turn into an Alice in Wonderland comic. It’s always fun to have Sophie and Doug interpret grown up concepts.
Nothing better than a house full of puppies making trouble. They literally run till they pass out. Our Gunnar was the only foster I’ve ever encountered that never went through any of the normal puppy phases. To be honest, I thought something was wrong with him. Now that he’s part of the famly, we know he just marches to his own drummer…or whatever strange instrument that plays in his head.
Fortunately our cats weren’t big into knocking things off the counters. I think that’s because they spent most of their day outside. They were generally too tired for indoor mischief.
I’m pretty sure I saw something like this on America’s Funniest Home Videos back in the day.
I don’t have any window lickers but I have a house full of cabinet lickers.
If I’m being honest, it’s been a long time sonce I’ve waxed our floors. For starters, when you have as many fur babies running around as we do, you learn quickly it’s a fruitless endeavor.
Yup. Cats like to bake. That’s actually a song I came up with son and niece when they were little. We even made tiny chefs hats for the cats. And so it became a running joke in the comic.
If you can’t tell, I’m obsessed with Alice in Wonderland. I get to send the entire cast to Winderland in the upcoming Sophie graphic novels. I will say I’m not a big fan of any of the Wonderland movies. The entire purpose of the book was to defy logic and reason. Then they make it into a movie and apply logic and reason. It doens’t work.
The one Alice spin-off I do adore is American McGee’s Alice video game. It’s as bonkers as the original.
The amount of unidentifiable sticky substances we find on our dogs is disturbing.
The power struggle is real.
The concusion of the great tape fiasco. In reality, Gunnar just waited until I removed the tape.
Obviously you can see that I’m switching to posting the full, uncropped comic. Let me know if you think it’s easier to read.
True story. Except we had to do this with Gunnar. I thought it worked, except when I took the tape off, he went right back to swiping.
This is one of the strips that made me want to turn Dog eat Doug into graphic novels. Even the larger Sunday comics were so constraining. Now I have unlimited room to let Sophie run wild! I’m writing book three right now and the adventurers keep getting bigger and crazier.
It’s not just about bigger and better, but also about truly letting the characters grow an dlearn over the course of the books. Of course Sophie’s personality guided the daily comics, but at the end of the day, you had to do one every single day. Charting a character arc over months was not easy. Now I can map out where Sophie is at the beginning of the book and see where she’ll be at the end. Then it’s just filling the inbetween bits with tons of fun.
We solved this issue by covering the florrs with dog beds. Also, a sectional couch that could fit a pride of lions helps.
