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Welcome to she's from away, my new (and, actually, first) comic strip. I'm Hope Larson, an American cartoonist living in Canada. In December 2004 I became a permanent resident, and in April 2005 my husband and I moved to Nova Scotia, a fairly isolated province east of Maine. It's so far east that it's in the Atlantic time zone, which we didn't know existed! The locals call people like us "come from aways." It's not exactly a term of endearment.

In October Mal and I moved into our first house, in a rural area north of Halifax. SFA is a chronicle of our lives as we continue to adjust to life in the Maritimes. Look for a new strip every Thursday, the same day it sees print in The Coast. I have lots of fun drawing these, and I hope you have as much fun reading 'em!