Oh, I forgot I had this comic, which hasn't been posted online. So yeah, I was unable to do a Superhero Girl comic this week due to busy (aaaghh, I have a huge deadline on the 20th and aaaaghh), but here's a comic I did for fellow Coast cartoonist Mike Holmes' True Story book. It's from my childhood and it actually happened and my mom actually said that. XD Enjoy!
I'm sure you appreciate that doll a lot more now than you did then
ReplyDeleteOk, we must be about the same age (-:) because I remember the Cabbage Patch doll craze! Only I never really cared, to be honest. Which was good, because the religious group my parents were involved with at the time said they were SATANIC. Yup. Always enjoyed reading that brochure. It had drama! Action! Fantasy! Just google "cabbage patch dolls demon possessed" and you'll see what I mean...
ReplyDeleteSo that's where the idea for Chucky came from.
DeleteWhat's really funny is the earliest Cabbage Patch Dolls were likely more like the one you got.
ReplyDeleteI shamefully remember how obsessed I was, as a chikd, with toys being trademarked. I didn't want any doll, it had to be a Mattel Barbie doll. The power of advertisement and peer pressure over a child is just wrong.
ReplyDeleteYour story reminded me of a fictional one I drew, albeit a sadder one. http://spinningdestiny.com/index.php?showimage=40
Things made with Love rarely last because it's an inadequate substitute for industrial adhesive or heat and chemical-based bonding - it tends to unravel with age, and once all the love is gone you're left with a stack of parts that don't make sense any more.
ReplyDelete*sob*
DeleteYour mom must have been a sewing wizard; I couldn't make a doll by hand. Do you still have the doll?
ReplyDeleteGlow worms were cool too!
ReplyDeleteFunny how years later you knew your mother was right... right? :)
Awww, Faith. I really loved my glow worm as a kid.
ReplyDeleteYour mom rocks.
ReplyDeleteOh, the CPKs. They don't make their hair out of yarn anymore, or at least the yarn-haired ones are harder to find. Sigh. It's a sign of the times I tell ya.
ReplyDeleteSo, wait.... Superhero Girl turned to vigilantism because she didn't get a real Cabbage Patch Doll, and then she dyed her hair....
ReplyDeleteOh, wait. "true st..."
Oops. Never mind.
Ha! My mother did the same thing, but for the older of my two younger brothers (yes, my brother wanted a cabbage patch doll, or "Cabbies" as we refered to them). Eventually, because she got a "real" one for my youngest brother, she also got a "real" one for him and for me even though I was in high school at the time!
ReplyDeleteOf course, then my youngest brother was disappointed because his older brother had TWO Cabbies and he only had ONE! :-P
I actually still have mine - she has red hair, light skin and freckles. I even still have the "Cheerleader" costume my mum got for her because I was on the Cheerleading Squad.
I remember Cabbage Patch dolls. I sort of wanted one... and then the one's that ate things came out and tales of children losing hair to their voracious appetites began to circulate. That Christmas/ Hanukkah, I was terrified that some well-meaning grandparent would get me one and it would get my hair.
ReplyDeleteI was quite relieved no to get a Cabbage Patch doll that year.
My uncle worked for Coleco in the electronics division making Coleco Vision games, so one year the whole extended family got Cabbage Patch dolls. I rather like mine.
ReplyDeleteBeing an engineer, he was most impressed by the fancy molding machine used to make the heads. If I remember right, it could mold slightly different heads each time.
So you had short hair as a girl? That's VERY cute. :-)
ReplyDeleteAnd your mothers line is... not that bad, is it?! At least she had some idea of what you wanted to have - minde came up with aaargh, I'm not thinking about it I'm not thinking about it...
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ReplyDeleteMy sister had a cabbage patch doll... truth be told, they scared the hell out of me.
ReplyDeleteDaaaw
ReplyDeleteawww! i feel little faith's disappointment as this totally happened to me, too!
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