Hello Friend, Happy February 29th! Or March 1st, depending on your time zone and when you open this email. In the U.S. we follow the Gregorian calendar and, as creators, we find it comforting that even the Gregs who made up this calendar system couldn’t do it without some fussing and fudging. So in honor of the bonus day that only happens once every four years, we thought we would share one of our own time warps here and in a featured collection at LuannFan.com Meanwhile in the strip, Bernice…
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Hello Friend, When the comic strip launched in 1985, Luann was a 13 year old. Fourteen years later, she celebrated her 16th birthday in 1999. In 2013, she started her senior year of high school (one of the only times the strip moved in “real time”) and she graduated in 2014. In fall of 2014, Luann started college and turned 18. So how old is she now, ten years later? We think of her as a college sophomore, being 19ish for who knows how long. Stuck in her own Wonderland, I’m not sure if we…
Hello Friend, You know that friend who makes relationship choices you just don’t understand? The one that insists on staying with the wrong person, or won’t go after the right person, or doesn’t even know what kind of person they are on their own? Maybe you have some of those feelings about Gunther: should he be with Bets? He and Luann really connected this week (read it here if you need to catch up!), should he date her instead? And what about the chemistry he’s had with Tiffany or Bernice……
Hello Friend, When is the last time you made a mistake? Or felt discouraged? Or uncertain? Even if you aren’t 19 and in college, like many of the characters in LUANN, you probably still have moments of struggle. And we hope, like the characters in LUANN, that you have friends and family, neighbors and peers, that can be there for you. The conflicts in LUANN may make for interesting stories, but it is the the way our characters face conflicts and connect with each other that makes the strip…
Hello Friend, Do you know which shape is the most dramatic? The triangle! Two people can have conflict, but three perspectives cranks the tension up a notch. Take the ol’ Luann-Aaron Hill-Tiffany dynamic, some of which you can revisit in the current LuannFan Featured Collection: Kiss & Tell. We picked this storyline from 2005 because it’s fun to see how our characters have changed…and what traits still surface (did you remember that Luann had such fun writing comedy back in high school?) This…
Hello Friend, Clearly, Bets and Gunther’s road trip didn’t go quite as planned! Their story will continue to unfold in the strip (click here if you need to catch up). But we wanted to give you a chance to explore their summer adventure in more detail than could fit in a comic strip storyline. That is how we came to write a book. Karen has shared some of the behind-the-scenes work that went into this project below. If you already ordered your copy, thank you! We appreciate you and are excited…
Hello Friend, Do you trust us? We hope so! Bets and Gunther’s road trip story is about to take a sharp U-turn and we want you, our dearest LUANN Fans, to be assured that there is a story unfolding we believe is worth telling. Life doesn’t take us in straight lines and neither has Bets and Gunther’s road trip. Buckle up! We will have more to share with our LUANN FANS in the next few days. ~Karen and Greg p.s. do you recognize the driver from today’s strip? He first showed up WAY back when…
Hello Friend, When will we see what Bets and Gunther are up to on their summer road trip?!! We know, we know, it is hard to read about Tiffany and Luann’s summer trials when we left you on a cliff hanger. The good news is that, so far, Bets and Gunther haven’t driven off a cliff. Instead: they drove straight to the San Diego Comic Con! Where else would two die-hard nerds go? We know Bets is snapping a million and two pictures all over the convention center and look forward to sharing some of…
Hello Friend, What’s up with Bets and Gunther and their van and the road trip?!! Well, we’re excited to tell you! (And, if you aren’t caught up in the strip, please check out the storyline starting HERE) No, this isn’t a picture of Bets and Gunther in their VW. But it is part of what inspired the idea for them to set off: road trips run in the Evans family! This picture is of me (Karen on the left with the cool bangs) and my brother, Gary (on the right with the same bangs) in the family’s…
Thanks to everyone who took the Pop Quiz in our last newsletter! Check out the results below. Hello Friend, Whether it’s a holiday meal or personal celebration, we all have traditions we look forward to (and probably a few we dread!). In the Evans family, breakfast or brunch for Mother’s Day and Father’s Day is a thing—see proof below—but Greg is also known for his beloved daily breakfast routine: especially that slice of cantaloupe. Breakfast often being hailed as the most important meal of…