I, too, grew up with an overbearing father. And I, too, spent a huge amount of time drawing Garfield. When I was a kid, "Garfield" didn't run in the newspaper we got at our house, but it did run in the paper the neighbors got. So once a week on trash day I'd go through the stack of old newspapers and pull out the comics page so I could cut out the "Garfield" strips and put them in the three-ring binder under my bed. In junior high I convinced the vice principal to let me and my friends put out a collection of comics using the school mimeograph machine, and of course we put in some ersatz Garfields we made. Ah, Garfield.
Thank you for sharing! Loved this post. And your 3rd grader teacher sounds awesome.
I, too, grew up with an overbearing father. And I, too, spent a huge amount of time drawing Garfield. When I was a kid, "Garfield" didn't run in the newspaper we got at our house, but it did run in the paper the neighbors got. So once a week on trash day I'd go through the stack of old newspapers and pull out the comics page so I could cut out the "Garfield" strips and put them in the three-ring binder under my bed. In junior high I convinced the vice principal to let me and my friends put out a collection of comics using the school mimeograph machine, and of course we put in some ersatz Garfields we made. Ah, Garfield.