Chesca Hause

COMIC: Discharged

n00b parents.

BONUS Panel:

Happy Birthday Link

I discovered today that I share my birthday with Legend of Zelda!  I'm 6 years older, so I was inspired to draw 6 year old Fran fangirling out.

This is the first time I've drawn her as a kid and I'm pretty smitten!  Tempted to do some comic strips from her youth, what do you think?

Happy 35th Birthday Link! 💕

Making of "Food Art"

Rolling backouts have ceased, so I can get back on my computer to post this!  

My friend posts photos of the clever food arrangements she makes her kid and I'm always impressed how great they look and that he actually eats them.  I've seen it!  It happens!

My 6yo is a very fussy eater, but to be fair, he gets it from me, so I do sympathize! :)  

I can't help but ...

Zoom Cat Lawyer

Meanwhile, in a parallel dimension...

If you missed the thing, here's the thing (worth it!) :)

Valenstime!

4yo:  Tomorrow, Mummy gonna give me Mickey Mowse cards and I’m gonna give them out to everyone for Valenstime!  

J:  No, buddy. It’s not Valenstime yet.  

4yo:  -But we’re in LOVE!  

J:  Who’s in love?  

4yo:  Me! And you and Mummy and Cap Cap* and 6yo!  

6yo:  -We’re not in love. I don’t like you at all. 

(*Cap Cap = Our dog, Space Pirate Captain Harlock)

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COMIC: World of Parentcraft (remastered)

One for the gamer parents.  Don't feel bad if you're with the mouse on this one! 😄

BONUS Panel:

Before (Apr 2019) and After:

Making of "What's in a Name?"

Last year was the first time we had to sit down and write Valentines to the class.  He complained a lot and it was pretty dreadful, but I got a bunch of comic ideas for THIS year! 😅

Sadly there is no Hermione and Kylo in his class, but when I was looking at the names list, I thought how cool it would be if there was!  

I tried to pack in another idea into this one, which is kids moaning about Valentines but then LOVING all the crap they get.  Squeezing 2 jokes in...

Doge to the Moon!

I'm finding all this DOGE business very amusing, so I drew some fan art! :)

COMIC: Stupid Holiday

Grumble grumble pink...

Edit: Someone on Facebook gave me an idea for a bonus panel! 

Eye for an Eye

*Me breaking up fight*

6yo: -But he hit me!

Me: Because YOU hit HIM!  Look, long ago it was an eye for an eye, but do you know what happens?  Everyone ends up blind!

6yo: No they don't.

Me: What?

6yo: The first person wins.  Other guy can't see, so he can't take the last eye.

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(This is the full size version of this image.  Figured it might be a good one for phone backgrounds!) :)

COMIC: What's in a Name?

The bonus panel for this one turned out to be so good, it's graduated to it's own comic!

COMIC: Food Art

Modern parenting ❤️👍

EDIT: Bonus panel!

Making of "Baby Pics"

These "relatable" ones are always a roll of the dice.  Either people will have the same experience and find it funny, OR they'll have no idea what you're on about and it will bomb.  Luckily for me, it seems to have landed and people aren't thinking I'm some sort of baby-hating-monster! 😅

The 1st draft was longer and had Fran in the photos too.  I removed her because a) she muddied the joke about newborns being weird looking and b) I'd never forget looking drea...

COMIC: Baby Pics

Memories!

COMIC: A Nightmare

This is from a tweet by Arianna Bradford!

Update Update!

So last week had the additional wrinkle of 6yos teacher testing positive.  We got him tested and he's thankfully fine, but the kids both had to stay home to be extra sure.  This meant us all living on top of each other in an Air BnB while our house was torn apart to remove the mold.  Then back to our house with half of the downstairs sealed off and the stuff that was in that half, piled up in the other half.

Needless to say, I didn't get much done! :)

I have 2 comic...

Update

Our house is getting torn up next week (thanks mold!) so I'm busy moving stuff around in preparation.  I'm hoping I can get back to drawing next week, but I might hold off from posting publicly so I can build up a bit of a buffer again.  I will be posting here for the $5+ tiers though.  We'll see how it goes, just wanted to give you guys a heads up that I'm still here, just preoccupied :)

COMIC: Simon Says

Simon Says, read this comic! 

BONUS Panel:

Making of "Little Taste"

I have developed quite a good "nag filter" which, among other things, is useful for catching nags that might backfire.  The 1st panel actually happed, but then the rest played out internally in my head.  I turned to J afterwards and laughed about how I'd almost scolded him for eating the Froot Loops I'd just had, to which he replied (as he often does!) "That's a strip right there!" :)

Drawing packaging is always an additional hurdle, but I love how it looks.  I wanted to ...

COMIC: Little Taste

Based on a true story...

BONUS Panel:

Making of "New Years Resolution"

I have this problem quite frequently, where I try to stay off my phone, but then something happens that I HAVE to post about.  If I can't figure out a good way to phrase a post, I write it down in a Google Doc to use for a comic or photo quote later.  I rooted through my photo quotes file and found these gems!  Both were from quite a while ago but I'd never been able to get a good photo because I'm not going in a restaurant or plane anytime soon!  As there's no pandemic in...

Making of "Countdown"

I saw this tweet last year and thought that is EXACTLY what 6yo would say if we let him stay up! 

I saved it and messaged her this year asking if I could use it and she said YES! :)

Drawing them sitting on the couch is always tricky, but I managed to modify some previous poses.  I ...

VIDEO: Drawing the Christmas Picture

Taking process videos has proved difficult because comics usually take at least 4hrs (usually a lot more!) and aren't done all in one sitting.  This results in me having a bunch of clips I have to stuck together to make a VAST video I then need to compress, which I've had a really hard time doing.

I realized early into drawing the Christmas picture that it would be faster to draw than a regular comic and therefore a good candidate to film.  I'd already drawn out the 1st rough ...

COMIC: New Years Resolution

I never had a chance...

(Both are actual quotes 😂) 

Edit: BONUS Panel!