Stone Soup- Meet Jan Eliot

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Stone Soup is a syndicated cartoon strip that's distributed internationally by Universal Press Syndicate to over 140 newspapers in 6 countries, and read by over 8 million readers every day. You can read Stone Soup online every day! Go to www.gocomics.com/stonesoup.

About the Stones: The Stones are an extended, blended family living in households where only the agile survive. Join Val and Joan — sisters and working moms — and their three energetic kids, their liberal live-in mother, Wally and his teen-age nephew Andy, and the Zen motorcycle cop — as they navigate life and all its chaos.

What's New

Desperate Households is sixth Stone Soup book collection, and features 128 full color pages. Stone Soup is written from cartoonist Jan Eliot's experiences as a single, stressed-out working mom of two daughters, when an extended, blended network of family and friends helped her survive. Many of her characteres are based on real, live wonderful people who, hopefully, enjoy seeing themselves in the funny pages.

Stone Soup is distributed to over 200 newspapers worldwide.

Buy The Book

Five previous Stone Soup books have been published and are distributed by Biblio. They are available at online and real-world bookstores everywhere, or here (autographed)

"I think it's a riot, my family thinks it's a riot, even the guy who delivers our fuel oil thinks it's a riot. Trust me, you will too."

John McPherson - Creator of "Close to Home"

If you’d like a suitable for framing of a Stone Soup cartoon, or would like to use a cartoon in a presentation, printed material, for on a web site, please visit www.amureprints.com. There is a topic searchable archive of Stone Soup cartoons for your convenience.

Habitat for Humanity and Stone Soup
Stone Soup characters are now helping to raise awareness for Habitat for Humanity International programs. Joan and Val are appearing on Women Build t-shirts and materials, and Holly and Alix are appearing on Girls Build backpacks and in education modules. Later this year the whole Stone Soup clan with get on the bandwagon to support the Katrina rebuilding effort, called Operation Home Delivery. We're all proud to be part of Habitat for Humanity International's generous efforts to provide decent basic housing worldwide.