{"id":268,"date":"2007-05-24T14:46:21","date_gmt":"2007-05-24T18:46:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ellenforney.com\/blog\/2007\/05\/24\/happy-birthday-mom\/"},"modified":"2007-05-25T01:29:42","modified_gmt":"2007-05-25T05:29:42","slug":"happy-birthday-mom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ellenforney.com\/blog\/2007\/05\/24\/happy-birthday-mom\/","title":{"rendered":"HAPPY BIRTHDAY, Mom!!!!!"},"content":{"rendered":"

My mom is one of the best people in the entire world. I mean that.<\/p>\n

The first comic I drew with the intention to get published was an elaboration on a four-panel, year-old Mother’s Day card that my mom had kept. That comic was bought by Ms. Magazine<\/a>, and was published an agonizing year later. (Note a little Alison Bechdel<\/a> influence??)<\/p>\n

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Of course, Mom starred in “I Was Seven in ’75”<\/a> (my comic about growing up in the 70’s, in my Unitarian\/ nudist-camp-visiting\/ liberal family). A number of people told me they had a disconcerting crush on her. Even more people said they envied me my obviously very cool parents. ( Very cool parents = true.)<\/p>\n

This is a portrait I did of me and Mom – I’m demonstrating the lip-twisting face she’d taught me (which she has now taught my enthused 12-yr-old nephew, Roy, via Skype):<\/p>\n

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When she was a kid, Mom used to make faces in front of a mirror, and gave them names: The Red Skelton. Fishy Lips. The Stare (that one used to Freak. My. Aunt. Out.). The Grimace. These days, as a pediatrician, Mom’s face-making skills help her charm (and probably, sometimes frighten) her patients. Yay, the doctor is a goofball! Yes, I will say “ahh!”<\/p>\n

When I was 25, Mom was 50, and my Grandma Florence was 75, my Aunt Evy<\/a> tried to take a nice portrait of us. Many failed attempts later, we finally gave up and did one that would obviously not work — and of course, it came out the best:<\/p>\n

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I love you, Ma!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My mom is one of the best people in the entire world. I mean that. The first comic I drew with the intention to get published was an elaboration on a four-panel, year-old Mother’s Day card that my mom had kept. That comic was bought by Ms. Magazine, and was published an agonizing year later. … Continue reading “HAPPY BIRTHDAY, Mom!!!!!”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ellenforney.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ellenforney.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ellenforney.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ellenforney.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ellenforney.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ellenforney.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ellenforney.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ellenforney.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ellenforney.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}