The Cluck Stops Here – SEE SAW Comics, Webcomics from the Sequential Artists Workshop

The Cluck Stops Here

Published On: October 22, 2023

A girl looks over at a dog, who sits behind a fence. A red sign reads "BAD DOG."

A reddish brown building with smoking chimneys.

Derek sleeps in a hammock. He says, "JFC. KMS."

"Rory runs in a field surrounded by palm trees and other foliage. Description: "April 2. Watched Rory. Worked."

Young Lynn gazes at herself in a full length mirror. She is wearing a blue dress and too-big blue heels. She appears pregnant.

Derek sits on the floor with one of his kids, who reads a book and looks slightly bored. The title reads "Escape." Derek is talking to his kid.

Kim sits at a picnic table amongst trees and foliage. Caption: "March 26-27. Worked. Enzo's mock trial team won circuits. A co-worker bought me pho for my bday. I ate it at the park on break."

"Women often say they become invisible as they get older." Vanessa walks in a crowd, sandwiched by two fashionable younger women walking in different directions.

Part of a hand-drawn and colored map, labeled: "The Southwest Corner of Minneapolis in the 1960s..."

A man, likely Tony, stands on a ladder against the roof of a house, positioned right by a satellite dish. The house door is open. Reeds in the corner add a sense of balance to the panel. Description reads: "March 20. Saturday. Worked. Two summer permaculture practicums are now being offered. It will focus on the installations of food forests. Might have to quit my job in order to take'm. Anxious about the financial hit but I'd have more time for art/comics."

A black and white image of a house, with trees in the front and back and a speech bubble that reads, "What's new?"

Three people sit at a round kitchen table on a checkered tile floor. They appear to be in conversation. Description reads: "March 14. Spent the night at moms place in Bradenton. Ann and Mariely are on the night shift so we visited with them when they got home in the morning. Afterwards we got takeout breakfast and walked in the woods. Drove home after and relaxed."

Derek dressed like Uncle Sam, in a triumphant pose

Kim stands at a threshold, looking into a room with tiled floors, a dresser, a large artwork of trees hanging on the wall, and a small waste bin. Description reads: "MARCH 7 SUNDAY"

Elsewhere part II thumbnail - Lynn as a girl, next to a telephone pole, with marks from hot nails on her cheek.

Hold Still Episode 11, Panel 1 Kim and another woman sitting a few feet apart at a bar-style counter, with arms crossed. Bottom left corner reads: "MONDAY, MARCH 1 THE PERMACULTURE GROUP ASSIGNMENT WAS DUE TODAY. TWO MEMBERS TEXTED IN THE LAST HOUR AFTER WEEKS OF NO WORK OR COMMUNICATION. I FEEL LUCKY TO HAVE ONE GOOD TEAMATE AT LEAST. ALI AND MOM CAME OVER IN THE AFTERNOON FOR A VISIT."

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Hold Still Episode 10, Panel 1 Upper left corner reads: "FEBRUARY 24 WORKED. DROVE TONY TO WORK - I HAVE HIS CAR SINCE MIND IS BROKEN. PICKED UP THE WATER PUMP SO TONY CAN FIX IT TOMORROW, HOPEFULLY. ENZO LET ME TAKE THIS PICTURE FOR MY NEXT 2-PAGE COMIC." Drawing of Enzo looking down, holding a cat to his chest and letting a dog sniff his finger.

Hold Still Episode 9, Panel 1 Drawing of a man in a firefighter's uniform standing in a doorway, with lots of hatching. Reads in lower left corner: "FEBRUARY 17 WEDNESDAY. HAD THE DAY OFF - WORKED ON NEW COMIC AND GRID FOR PAINTINGS. TONY WAS ON SHIFT AND STOPPED BY IN THE FIRE ENGINE."

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