For fourteen years, cartoonist B.K. Taylor regaled and baffled readers with the good-natured goofiness of his odd suburban family, , and his innocent cast of Canadians who encounter the outside world and the trials of everyday life in . Talyor's art is richly, realistically, and subversively detailed. At first, you might think it's being played straight, but take a closer look … With a foreword by comedian and star Tim Allen ( ) and an afterword by horror writer R.L. Stine ( ; ).