In highschool I couldn't wait for Thursdays because that's when the free paper came out and that meant

ERNIE POOK'S COMEEK by Lynda J Barry. The main girl is around 10 and named Marlys. Her teenager

sister is named Mabonne and they have other neighborhood kids around too. This comic pretty much

explains how my friends and I talked, and um, still do. I discovered these while making a mad storage purge