UNDERWIRE
by Jennifer Hayden
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Posted by: Dean Haspiel
03:07pm / Sep 26, 2009
Bravo to an amazing first year at ACT-I-VATE, Jennifer. I look fwd to more UNDEWIRE.



This "diary strip" collaboration with your daughter had me laughing out loud. More, please.
Posted by: Jennifer Hayden
06:30pm / Sep 26, 2009
Thanks, Dean. As I've said before, ACT-I-VATE has taught me everything I know (about comix.)
Posted by: Thomas Baehr
03:16pm / Sep 26, 2009
Looks like more or less you had everything than a good time in SF ... Well, maybe that's because you didn't went to AT&T Park. That was a mistake, for sure.



Hey Jennifer, this is one of the most unique strips I've ever seen.
Posted by: Jennifer Hayden
06:31pm / Sep 26, 2009
AT&T Park--how did we miss this? We'll put it on the list for next time. Thanks for your comments, as always!!
Posted by: Elizabeth Davis
07:17pm / Sep 26, 2009
I'm at work in a library so I can't chortle aloud, and it's painful repressing my giggles. Seriously, I needed a dose of you after 3 days of relocating mom in Kansas City this past week. One word: it sucked. You and Charlotte ( and Kip) are brilliant.



Keep it up. Your biggest fan, Eeeee
Posted by: Jennifer Hayden
10:43pm / Sep 26, 2009
Relocating Mom in Kansas City??? Holy shit, that's not even a comic. That's a Victorian novel--I'm emailing you for details right away.
Posted by: Margie
10:13pm / Sep 26, 2009
That's great, Jennifer!
Posted by: Jennifer Hayden
10:44pm / Sep 26, 2009
Hey, you're wonderful to comment, Margie. Nobody knows what it's like to be on the road with family quite the way you do...
Posted by: Tim Hall
08:05am / Sep 27, 2009
I'm happy to say that in my many trips to SF I have never had any of the experiences you document, and have managed to avoid all the tourist hells you describe (except Mesa, which I'd love to do). Thank you for confirming my suspicions, thank you for a wonderful year of strips, and please please please keep them coming!



Tim



P.S. you're a couple of cool gals for tagging along with hubby/dad to an amplifier factory. two big thumbs up from the patriarchy.
Posted by: Jennifer Hayden
10:24am / Sep 27, 2009
I wasn't sure anyone was going to pick up the Boogie reference, but since your eagle eyes did, here's the poop: my husband's a guitar and bass player and has been buying amps from these guys for years and they love him and he loves them. Since Char and I have been taking phone messages from them forever, and my son now plays guitar, this had to be a family visit. And they really are a wonderful bunch of dudes.



And the patriarchy can eat shit. The matriarchy remains strong and in charge!
Posted by: Tim Hall
08:05am / Sep 28, 2009
"And the patriarchy can eat shit. The matriarchy remains strong and in charge!"



you're so cute when you get angry, dollface.



wait--what are you...that thing loaded? p-p-put it down...no, wait....AHHHH!
Posted by: Kathy (aka Gimpy)
10:29am / Sep 27, 2009
They say laughter is the best medicine and god knows I need some serious meds, so thanks for giving me an OD with this 1st (of many!) Anniversary strip.
Posted by: Jennifer Hayden
10:32am / Sep 27, 2009
Oh, babe, I've ignored you terribly this week! Thanks so much for reading in spite of the pain!
Posted by: marina
11:46am / Sep 27, 2009
That was GREAT, as usual...SO original & I can just hear you & Charlotte throughout...you make the Griswalds look like Ozzie & freakin' Harriet...Kudos, babe!
Posted by: Jennifer Hayden
11:52am / Sep 27, 2009
You gotta love the Griswalds... Thanks! This strip is missing a page right now, though, and I can't figure out how to get it up (THAT didn't sound right), so check out page 9 later on. Kip's personal page and worth the wait...
Posted by: Dar Hosta
05:20pm / Sep 27, 2009
Delightful, Jennifer. Loved the collaboration. Your daughter is quite the witty writer. Almost sounded like YOU!!
Posted by: Jennifer Hayden
05:24pm / Sep 27, 2009
You're too kind, Dar. Actually, my daughter is very different from me. She's the one who refused to swear for years because she was afraid that if she did, Santa wouldn't come. Fuck him!
Posted by: Kevin Kobasic
09:44pm / Sep 27, 2009
How many people would collaborate with their kids in such an honest, no-bullshit fashion? I love that you're chill enough with your kids that you can go on vacation and they can say "this sucks" without fear of reprisal. That would have brought my Dad's wrath down on us in a hurry, I don't mind telling you.



Congrats on a full year of awesome originality.
Posted by: Jennifer Hayden
10:54pm / Sep 27, 2009
Oh, Kevin, your girls are already transforming you into the Dad you never dreamed you could be. I mean that in both a good and a bad way.



The rule in our house is: crack me up. If you can crack me up, you win. I'm not saying it's a good rule, and years from now I'm sure we'll be sorry. But it keeps us from being bored...



Thanks, man. Parent-to-parent fist-bump.
Posted by: Andrew Dimitt
11:09pm / Sep 27, 2009
:)awesome! Cheers to your first year. Keep em' come'n!
Posted by: Jennifer Hayden
11:15pm / Sep 27, 2009
'Preciate your support, Andrew. How could I do anything other than keep making comix for such a fabulous audience?
Posted by: Jim H.
08:41am / Sep 28, 2009
I don't know if Mr. Red needs a NSFW stamp there...watta view!



That was fun for me to read, although apparently virtually everything on your trip sucked or was boring. I'm going out on a limb here and guessing that Char is still a teenager!
Posted by: Jennifer Hayden
09:35am / Sep 28, 2009
You got it, man! She's 13 now, then 12, and not QUITE as sophisticated as she looks.
Posted by: Dan Nies
09:08am / Sep 28, 2009
Now I know why my parents never took us anywhere when we were kid. I thought it was the money, but now I'm sure we wouldn't have appreciated it.



Happy Anniversery to Push-up or Demi-Bra or Corset or what ever this thing is called.
Posted by: Jennifer Hayden
09:38am / Sep 28, 2009
Dan, you faithful friend--thanks for all the suggestions and helping to keep this strip on track. Bustier couldn't have done it without you!
Posted by: Julia Anrather
12:29pm / Sep 30, 2009
gurrrrrl.

you got it.
Posted by: Jennifer Hayden
02:35pm / Sep 30, 2009
If I got it, you gave it to me.
Posted by: Nathan Schreiber
09:58am / Oct 6, 2009
How can you go to the Wells Fargo History Museum and expect anything but a boring time?



Great strip Jennifer!
Posted by: jennifer Hayden
10:02am / Oct 6, 2009
I know, right? Unless you're my history-freak husband.



And thanks!
Posted by: Tim Hamilton
06:28pm / Oct 7, 2009
One word:

That did NOT suck!

Oh, four words.



Happy anniversary!
Posted by: jennifer Hayden
10:04pm / Oct 7, 2009
Thanks, Tim. I bow before your incredible talent.



And you freaked me out for a minute there--my husband and I just celebrated our (twentieth!) wedding anniversary, and I'd forgotten for a minute about UNDERWIRE's anniversary and I was like, Holy shit, is Tim Omniscient? Is he, like, actually a God??