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Betsy Streeter's Blog
http://betsystreeter.blogspot.com
Betsy Streeter is the creator of the single panel cartoon features "Brainwaves," about the absurdity of everyday life, and "The Mommy Track'd Funny Papers," about the absurdity of working motherhood. Betsy has published cartoons all over the world for more than fourteen years. In her blog she provides an inside look at how many of her cartoons come into being, along with anything else that pops into her head.
Recent Posts
Graphic Novel, Page 63
Page 63Originally uploaded by betsystreeterOur Lost Queen is named Liesel, incidentally.Many pages this time, since we're moving through space which of course requires quite a few drawings. We're about to meet the Illuminator of Manuscripts. But who ...
Puppet Class - Toasted Marshmallow
In this clip, one of my puppet class students had a wonderful idea to make a prop that is both an uncooked and cooked marshmallow. Then they use the sun (and this character who is made of fire) to do the cooking. The bat and hedgehog provide commenta...
The Puppet Class - Cats Got No Candy!
In our puppet class, we first make the puppets and then we act out scenarios with them.Along the way we also go through lots of glue, and put together some kind of a stage.In this clip I had asked the kids to come up with Trick-Or-Treating scenarios,...
Arts Education is Arts Education.
In our day of standardized test scores, those of us interested in fostering creativity always need some ammunition in our corner.We need to justify why kids should spend time drawing and making marks, even though they do this without any prompting at...
Where\'s the cocoa? Where IS IT???
The household ran out of unsweetened cocoa this week. This is not okay.I just walked downtown and got more. Now things are better.Whew. ...
Don\'t look now...
There's gonna be a lot of nudity out there this time of year, folks. ...
