Advice from Roland the Barkeep

Things have been pretty hectic in my life lately, it seems everytime things settle down there is another injury or illness to someone in my family and I've been pretty distracted by it all.  I've been meaning to work on this comic idea my husband Allan came up with of Roland the barkeep.  This is a first attempt, the advice probably won't be in that chalkboard in the future and it will most likely be in strip form and longer bits of advice, but I think for now this illustrates the concept pretty well and is quite cute. I hope you all enjoy it and I also hope to resume a more normal schedule soon:

From the Sketchbook: Shields and Dragons

Today, I was doing a little research on medieval shields to make a logo for my husband's blog and out of nowhere a dragon popped into the drawing.  These are just sketches: