Stephanie's comic-a-day

Jupiter as goalie

2011-06-04T16:29:00.000-07:00

That's Hannah, Arlo and Liam out there on Crissy Field.

Mama draws dogs and horseys.

2011-03-21T11:26:00.000-07:00

James illustrates a book while at the beach.

2011-03-21T11:25:00.000-07:00

Aunt Jenn and Uncle Henry give the Johnsons a new chess game for Christmas

2011-03-19T17:11:00.000-07:00

James finds the perfect rock at the beach. Guest colorist: Justice Johnson

2011-02-25T19:02:00.000-08:00

The kids play Reau Cham Beau at Dim Sum: Guest coloris--Justice Johnson

2011-02-25T18:55:00.000-08:00

Pool games with Popi at the Johnston's pool, summer 2010

2011-01-05T11:05:00.000-08:00

There's about to be a big splash. Notice Justice, happy to be holding on to a noodle.

Hand-colored by Jusstice

Justice and Sophie discuss the World Series, October 2010

2011-01-05T10:39:00.000-08:00

Hand-colored by Justice Johnson.

Jupiter helps Justice grapple with the fear of getting her face wet.

2011-01-05T10:27:00.000-08:00

Hand-colored by Justice Johnson

Justice struggles with the idea of swim lessons.

2011-01-05T10:04:00.000-08:00

Jupiter asks questions.

2010-03-10T21:26:00.000-08:00

Christmas craft projects with the hot glue gun

2010-03-10T21:22:00.000-08:00

Christmas Morning drama...

2010-03-07T17:15:00.000-08:00

Jupiter and Justice play with their new kitty and dog toys from Santa on Christmas morning.

2010-03-07T17:10:00.000-08:00

The Hanging Tree

2010-02-22T21:05:00.000-08:00

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2010-02-11T16:24:00.000-08:00

Milly watches the kids play at Buena Vista playground.

2010-02-02T22:06:00.000-08:00

Jupiter and Lucy play at Grattan Park.

2010-02-02T22:04:00.000-08:00

Picking out our Christmas tree and playing hide and seek.

2010-02-01T22:13:00.000-08:00

James and Jupiter waterbend in Grandma Pat's spa.

2010-02-01T21:59:00.000-08:00

James writes his Christmas requests to Santa.

2010-02-01T10:50:00.000-08:00

Riding the 6 to downtown

2010-02-01T10:48:00.000-08:00

Justice and Kip have a playdate. (Guest inking by Jupiter)

2010-01-28T23:28:00.000-08:00

Justice goes to the dentist. (Guest colorist: Justice)

2010-01-28T23:22:00.000-08:00

Justice was so scared to go to the dentist, that she wept the night before and that morning, and in the car on the way there.

Christmas party, with Beatles' songs.

2010-01-26T22:57:00.000-08:00

Jupiter watched Dickon play piano. Isabel and Flori danced. I sang!

Justice plays puzzles indoors.

2010-01-26T22:55:00.000-08:00

Fighters and ring girls, a playdate with Kip

2010-01-25T21:28:00.000-08:00

More Avatar

2010-01-25T21:25:00.000-08:00

We loved this show.

James, Jupiter and Grandma Pat muse about the fire.

2010-01-24T20:23:00.000-08:00

James paints a desert landscape with water color

2010-01-24T20:19:00.000-08:00

Jupiter examines her velvet bag full of stones.

2010-01-21T08:50:00.000-08:00

While in Arizona, Jupiter's choice at gift shops is invariably little collections of tiny beautiful pebbles and stones.

James helps Mama excercise.

2010-01-21T08:41:00.000-08:00

Thanksgiving in Arizona

2010-01-21T08:37:00.000-08:00

Lots of bike riding in bright helmets.

Grandma Gayle in the kitchen

2009-12-22T14:26:00.000-08:00

This is from summer in Florida. Jupiter got mad at me and x'd the drawing but then forgave me and did a lovely coloring job.

Emmy and Henry play Ben 10

2009-12-21T12:26:00.000-08:00

Fun times after watching Avatar: The Last Airbender

2009-12-14T12:20:00.000-08:00

We are so hooked on this show.

Guest artist, Justice Johnson

2009-12-14T12:13:00.000-08:00

Look at this beautiful, expressive drawing of our family. The tall one is mama. That's Jupiter int he rainbow dress, and James and Justice right below her. That little baby in the picture, is of course, baby Popi.

Yukino! One of James' favorite friends

2009-12-11T22:14:00.000-08:00

Jupiter makes a Victoran house

2009-12-10T22:22:00.000-08:00

Justice at the Koret Children's Playground.

2009-12-10T22:19:00.000-08:00

A short game of frisbee in Golden Gate Park

2009-12-08T21:09:00.000-08:00

Actually the game didn't last beyond this discussion. But we did chase the soccer ball around, Justice holding my hand while we ran, chasing Jupiter with the ball and laughing. Popi and James played frisbee without the complication of who would get to be shagger, and James turned out to be really good at it. I think frisbee might just be his sport.

Halloween Night

2009-12-07T20:35:00.000-08:00

After that to-do with the unicorn costume and after trick-or-treating, the real fun came sitting ont he steps, eating candy and waiting for trick-or-treaters to come to our house.

Eating Pizza at Escape from New York on Haight Street.

2009-12-07T20:31:00.000-08:00

Poor Jupiter couldn't even finish her root beer. It turns out she had a fever so I took her home and we watched Snow Buddies. Popi took James and Justice to the playground.

James makes up fake homework for himself that involves drawing...monsters.

2009-12-03T18:16:00.000-08:00

Stephanie at the New York Public library.

2009-12-03T18:12:00.000-08:00

Steph and Adam eating oysters on a date in New York City!

2009-12-02T21:03:00.000-08:00

Grandma Pat reads Halloween books.

2009-12-02T20:58:00.000-08:00

On this trip Grandma Pat brought some wonderful Halloween books that were a big hit all around.

See the bloody hand prints on the window behind? Some of the many creepy decorations for Halloween James bought with his own money at Walgreens.

Jupiter muses over her social success in Kindergarten.

2009-11-20T12:21:00.000-08:00

Jupiter's Kindergarten class goes on a hay ride.

2009-11-19T21:26:00.000-08:00

We went on a field trip to the pumpkin patch and on the hay ride, all of the kids sang songs Ms. Diane had taught them, complete with hand gestures. There's Lemya and Mattie and Eric.

Justice loves drawing animals

2009-11-19T21:25:00.000-08:00

Jupiter draws Jupiter and Mama

2009-11-18T21:50:00.000-08:00

James draws monsters.

2009-11-18T21:42:00.000-08:00

Roughhousing

2009-11-17T15:40:00.000-08:00

James and Henry roughhousing and looking at books

2009-11-17T12:41:00.000-08:00

The Zebra Ghost

2009-11-16T20:34:00.000-08:00

Justice plays with the Belvedere Kids

2009-11-15T20:28:00.000-08:00

At Koret Children's Playground

2009-11-14T12:28:00.000-08:00

That day I had to climb to the top of the wave to get Justice down. Shoka and Toma's mom, Meyumi helped me--I lowered crying Justice down to her. I grumbled and bitched the whole time about breaking a leg again.

guest artist, James Johnson draws lots of monsters

2009-10-24T13:15:00.000-07:00

I think this would make great Christmas wrap.

James loves to jump.

2009-10-08T21:28:00.000-07:00

Steve Elliott reads from his memoir, The Adderall Diaries.

2009-10-07T21:14:00.000-07:00

Sylvia catches a fish.

2009-10-07T21:13:00.000-07:00

Stephanie, and many boys, go fishing.

2009-10-07T21:10:00.000-07:00

At dinner time, we talk about our day.

2009-10-06T21:52:00.000-07:00

Justice, warily, makes friends with Gracie at Grattan playground.

2009-10-05T22:43:00.000-07:00

James teaches origami to Jupiter and Justice, but they make their own creations.

2009-10-05T22:33:00.000-07:00

Bedtime books with Jupiter and Jumper Kitty

2009-10-05T22:29:00.000-07:00

Beware. Jumper kitties are vicious creatures. They do lots of hissing and throw menacing looks at people when you walk by. Justice was a jumper kitty this night.

Justice at acrosports this past spring.

2009-10-04T22:31:00.000-07:00

James teaches Justice more karate.

2009-10-04T22:29:00.000-07:00

Grandpa teaches Jupiter and Justice about gardening.

2009-10-04T22:09:00.000-07:00

This was from this summer and for some reason it took me a long time to ink--maybe I lost it for awhile or something. But it was such a typical day in Stuart, walking around the yard with Grandpa, checking out the citrus, looking for lizards...

Snake School, drawing by James Johnson

2009-10-04T14:01:00.000-07:00

In this snake school drawing, the little snakes are learning how to count thunder and how long it is before the storm comes.

James and cousin Emma watch Marvel fight scenes together.

2009-10-04T00:01:00.000-07:00

James teaches Justice karate.

2009-10-03T23:45:00.000-07:00

This was in the spring when James was taking his karate classes, after having watched The Karate Kid for movie night. He's not going to karate anymore, since the Sensei started using our credit card like an ATM machine.

envelope to President Obama, with a picture of Michelle, and a cat, too.

2009-09-29T10:00:00.000-07:00

More art for Obama

2009-09-29T09:58:00.000-07:00

Obama's dog Bo, by Justice

2009-09-29T09:54:00.000-07:00

Justice makes mail for Obama

2009-09-29T09:51:00.000-07:00

It's true, Justice is always drawing pictures for Obama, maybe because she knows how much I love him. We finally mailed one out to him.

James's 7th birthday

2009-09-23T22:30:00.000-07:00

There was a haunted house theme. James drew this.

Anya and Justice playdate

2009-09-23T22:26:00.000-07:00

That's Justice dressed as a dragon and Anya as a princess, wondering where the sparkle shoes are. When Jupiter found out that Justice had a playdate with Anya while Jupiter was away at kindergarten, there was a lot of punishment meted out.

Jupiter's first day of kindergarten!

2009-09-22T22:27:00.000-07:00

There's Jupiter standing next to Sadie, with Teague on the end. See her new pink converse?

James spots Justice

2009-09-22T22:21:00.000-07:00

It was the Sunday before the first day of school and we went to Grattan Elementary playground.

James is always so sweet, looking after his younger sisters.

Justice in the kitchen

2009-09-22T22:17:00.000-07:00

James and Jupiter give a hair cut to a werewolf.

2009-09-21T22:08:00.000-07:00

Luckily, when James first bought the werewolf, last Halloween, (with his own money) he decided to buy two werewolves. Just in case one got lost. As for Jupiter, she's getting herself in ready for kindergarten with a little roll playing.

Jupiter tells a very sad story to Mama.

2009-09-21T22:03:00.000-07:00

It's easier to read the words if you click on it.

At Grattan playground, James and Jupiter take risks.

2009-09-21T21:52:00.000-07:00

I walked them there on crutches. It was worth it.

James pushes his mama in a wheelchair through the redwood forest.

2009-09-20T22:20:00.000-07:00

Grandpa also drove us to the John Muir woods. At first I thought I wouldn't be able to join them, because of my crutches, but then we realized James could push me in a wheelchair. He loved it, and so did I.

Grandpa drives us to a new playground, where there's a clubhouse.

2009-09-20T22:18:00.000-07:00

Diamond draws while Grandpa naps: guest colorist, Justice Johnson

2009-09-20T22:16:00.000-07:00

Road trips can be hard on people with broken legs.

2009-09-19T22:54:00.000-07:00

At Lake Tahoe

2009-09-19T22:49:00.000-07:00

This was way more fun than being housebound.

Jupiter and Justice wade in a Yosemite stream.

2009-09-19T22:45:00.000-07:00

Grandpa James came to save us from the housebound boredom of Mama's broken leg, and took us to Lake Tahoe and Yosemite. Here Justice just got her bum wet in the water. She's not happy about it and is about to climb over that rock and strip down to her underwear.

Dr Wong asks Justice questions to determine her developmental level. Justice delivers.

2009-09-14T22:10:00.000-07:00

Roughhousing rodeo

2009-09-14T22:05:00.000-07:00

Mama pulls out the craft projects

2009-09-14T22:02:00.000-07:00

Shirla.

2009-09-13T22:48:00.000-07:00

Jupiter makes an observation.

2009-09-12T21:31:00.000-07:00

Justice razors in the backyard--cartoon hand colored, by Justice

2009-09-12T21:28:00.000-07:00

She really was wearing lavender that day, both top and bottom, since she loves to match.

Back home in San Francisco...

2009-09-12T21:23:00.000-07:00

Since Mama had a broken leg, there were many days spent cooped up in the house. Luckily, there is no end to the fun.

Last swim in Stuart, with Mama on crutches

2009-09-12T11:49:00.000-07:00

Lunch at Shakra's Deli in Jensen Beach

2009-09-12T11:46:00.000-07:00

Learning to cannonball after learning to swim.

2009-09-09T21:29:00.000-07:00