The pages below below are some of last in my book, where we're getting ready to move to Victoria in 1987. At that time the Punk scene in Toronto was being paved over by the new music of the time , brake dancing was big and so was the boom-boxes that delivered the new sound, Rap was emerging and was the new kid on the block! Alex and Raymond were five and two at this time and we had lost interest in the new music scene and started to sell a lot of our records - portable caset tapes were becoming popular with the young people. We were thirty two and feeling our age, so, what did we do? We moved to Victoria "the newly wed and nearly dead!"

This is the last sequence I'll be posting for a while. I still have about five pages to do before I finnish off my book. I was hoping to get them done before we left for Ontario but that didn't happen :^( so now I'm on the road  till August. TCAF was the first convention we did - it was amazing!!! There were 400 artist there this year . I'll try and post some photos during my trip... if I can only figure out how to on my I pad! 

I'm off to Toronto tomorrow.  TCAF ( Toronto Comic Art Festival) is this weekend!!! 

Here are some pics I took at FanXpo inVancouver - another comic convention, at it's finest!!!

Anyone who has lived in Toronto knows that it snows a lot and how squished you get in the subway! 

In this sequence, Ken's dad Charles comes out to visit, and my dad is showing him the little house we use to live and the bus he used as a workshop. My dad was as much interested in Charles as as he was interested in my dad - they hit it off really well. My dad was the salt of the earth and Ken's dad was a man of the sky. Charles was a pilot in the Royal Canadian Air Force and with NATO, and he flew some amazing planes during the 50s and 60s and had some great stories to tell. My dad started his scrap metal business in the 50s when the military decided to turn  the Avrow Arrow into scrap metal! That scrap ended up in Hamilton at the same place my dad took his scrap cars they turned into cubes that were then recycled into raw metal again. Defasco and Stelco kept the two major steel plants smoking!

Seeing that it's Easter weekend, I thought I'd show this sequence. My Mom always made great dinners but the holiday dinners were extra special. I dedicate these pages to my Mom, in loving memory.

Beam me up Scottie! This was a fun page to do. based on one of my favourite episodes of Star Trek; The City On The Edge of Forever by Harlan Ellison. On this page we're discussing our upcoming trip to the San Diego Comic-Con, and on the way back a visit with Harlan. Ken had already worked with him and I was just about to meet him, and was a bit nervous, yes, but I was getting use to meeting a lot of well-known writers and comic-book artists. 

Today I've been working on a few more pages of us visiting Ellison Wonderland, Harlan's home, where we fall into the rabbit hole!!! Just a reminder that the pages I'm posting are not in any order, and the word balloons will be added later, when I've completed this book - soooon!!!