Happy Holidays everyone. Next week will be the New Years special and then we'll be back to our regular scheduled programming. Thanks for your support over the last three years. I look forward to more comic fun in 2005.

So with EP162 we have another new character. So far that's three new characters in the last little while. I really need to update the cast page to include these characters in the new year. Next week, I'll continue my tradition of digging into my old archive of Christmas and Birthday cards I have drawn in years past for this year's Christmas and New Year's "specials". These are cartoons I drew for friends and family before I began creating Straight Ahead. You'll see some familiar characters before they progressed past the one-liner gag cartoon format. The holidays are getting closer... yay!

The boys finally find their way to their new high school in EP161. Some of you Saskatonians (pronounced: Saska-tone-ians) might recognize the high school Arnie, Joe and Dave are going to. I almost didn't get this cartoon on the website. On Sunday, I got up and had really bad back spasms. I don't normally have trouble with my back, but this was the worst. I could hardly dress myself. Thank God for Robaxacet. The only thing is it has the side effect of making me light headed and somewhat 'loopy'.