Bedtime Story?
As her young daughter Alix waits patiently for a bedtime story, Valerie (Val) Stone expounds humorously on the irrelevance of fairy tales to her own life. Jan Eliot’s impeccably drawn comic strip Stone Soup focuses on the daily lives of Val, a single mother, her household that includes her two daughters and mother, her workplace, and her sister. The trials and triumphs of this blended family form the heart of this strip, making it unusual among family-centered comics that traditionally feature two-parent households. Eliot’s first comic Patience and Sarah was followed by Sister City, which was renamed Stone Soup in 1995, when it became nationally syndicated.
As her young daughter Alix waits patiently for a bedtime story, Valerie (Val) Stone expounds humorously on the irrelevance of fairy tales to her own life. Jan Eliot’s impeccably drawn comic strip <em>Stone Soup</em> focuses on the daily lives of Val, a single mother, her household that includes her two daughters and mother, her workplace, and her sister. The trials and triumphs of this blended family form the heart of this strip, making it unusual among family-centered comics that traditionally feature two-parent households. Eliot’s first comic <em>Patience and Sarah</em> was followed by <em>Sister City</em>, which was renamed <em>Stone Soup</em> in 1995, when it became nationally syndicated.