April 12 - Da Kine Easter Parade

I created this happy Easter cartoon on Easter Sunday, which this year in the United States was on the last day of March. I did a thumbnail sketch in my notebook a few weeks before, then after my church's Easter sunrise service I drew the final edition on the back of an envelope at the Cafe Westminster in Westminster, California and scanned it into my laptop.

The Rogers ohana is dressed in their hau'oli Easter best--pet mongoose included--to celebrate the resurrection of Christ at a local Easter sunrise service. And in doing so they are putting on their own version of Da Kine Easter Parade, yeah? Pictured from left to right are Cousin Lee, her adopted daughter Keisha, Lani Girl the mongoose, and arm-in-arm Lee's parents Della and Pete. Keisha laughs at Tutu's Easter bonnet because she's never seen one before and to her it looks so wonderfully ridiculous. :)

October 22 - A Harvest of Costumes

It's the annual Fall Festival at Ricki Lee & Tony's church--or what some would call a safer Halloween alternative without the scary costumes and gothic enthusiasts--and everyone's dressed up as somebody, including Ricki Lee as legendary Hawaiian singer-songwriter Aunty Irmgard Aluli, Cousin Lee as a University of Hawaii cheerleader, and Isaac as an Angry Bird. Unless you live in or have visited the islands, you might not get the local kine jokes, including Auntie Della's. But have fun fo try, eh? :)