About Lost Woods

In this era of climate change, Lost Woods will send you laughing all the way to the brink. Developed in the early days of the pandemic, this strip has become a daily dose of the natural world so vital to restoring our collective sense of humor.

Life in Lost Woods revolves around Henry, a bear, who is caretaker and chronicler of the last tract of untouched woods in comics land where he lives in a small house-tree. He talks to plants and ruminates to himself about the wonders and annoyances of swamps and friends. One day he finds Auk, orphan of a Great Auk and a Dodo, wandering lost in the woods and rescues him. Or, perhaps in the end, Auk rescues Henry and all of us from the collective unease of our changing world.

Lost Woods, while rooted in nature-loving ideals, is not a polemic, nor in any way didactic. In Henry's woods, time is measured, not by current events or holidays, but by currant events and bug season. In these woods, the trees talk, the plants have secrets, and an eccentric cast of friends brings argument, invention, innocence, and mischief to the woods, as well as humor and hope for the future. Lost Woods is both an idea and a place. Henry sums it up this way:  

"I'm not afraid to be lost in the woods; I'm afraid that the woods will be lost to me." Henry

The Lost Woods Cast

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