Beyond the Black Stump is an Australian comic strip written by Sean Leahy. It debuted in 1988 and won the "Best Comic Strip" at the 2003 National Coffs Harbour Cartoon Awards and the "Comic Strip Cartoonist of the Year" at the Australian Cartoonist's Association's Stanley Award the same year.
The strip follows a cast of Australian wildlife who deal with the day-to-day stresses of marriage, parenting and friendship.
Characters
Floyd - Floyd is a wannabe rock 'n' roller echidna. He spends a lot of his time, and a lot of his out of tune music, to protest against whatever comes up, whether it be saving the environment, or saving the echidnas.
Dave - Dave the kangaroo is an original larrikin and party animal. He’s always a jump ahead of the rest ... but with his feet that’s easy.
Benny - Benny is a kookaburra and a single parent to Spud. He devotes a lot of time to raising Spud properly, but with limited success. Being a solo parent is never an easy job.
Spud - Spud, a bird, is a smart and quick-witted boy, but his grades do not show this trait. It sometimes seems that he tries to make his father's life a misery.
Joyce Silveira Moreno, commonly known as Joyce (Brazilian Portuguese:[ˈʒojsi]) is a Braziliansinger/songwriter, as well as an accomplished guitarist and arranger. She was born in Rio de Janeiro on 31 January 1948. As of 2009, Joyce started using her full name, Joyce Moreno, for her future releases.
Biography
Joyce premiered in the late 60's, and since then has recorded over 20 solo albums, and appeared in myriad records with such artists as Elis Regina, Toninho Horta, Vinicius de Moraes, and Yoko Kanno. In recent years she has collaborated extensively with João Donato. Much of Joyce's work has been compared to the early boom of the jazz fusion scene in the United States.
She got her start in music by listening to her brother play the guitar, as well as listening to Ella Fitzgerald, Miles Davis and Billie Holiday for inspiration on emotions conveyed in music. Many people came into Joyce's house, and she easily got swept up in the music scene, having had in her childhood great encouragement in music.
The name Joyce is a contemporary given-name used for females and rarely used by males. As a family-name, it derived from the Old French Masculine name Josse, which derived from the Latin name Iudocus, the Latinized form of the Breton name Judoc meaning "lord". The name became rare after the 14th century, but later revived as a female given-name, which derived from the Middle Englishjoise meaning "rejoice".
Name's origin: Saint Joyce (Judoc)
Saint Joyce (600–668) – Breton prince and hermit, the son of a Juthael, king of Brittany. After his death, his body was claimed to be incorrupt, his beard and hair were trimmed from time to time by his followers (as was claimed for Saint Cuthbert). In 902, while the new minster at Winchester was being built, there arrived some refugees from Saint-Josse who brought with them the relics of their founder. Saint Grimbald enshrined them in the new church. Consequently, feasts of Josse were prominently kept at Winchester; His popularity in England may be deduced from the frequent Christian name Joyce (for both men and women) and from the use of his name in oaths by the Wife of Bath in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales ("by God and by Seint Joce"). Through the discovery of a rival set of relics at Saint-Josse in 977 the cult of Josse also spread from Northern France to Flanders (where he is sometimes called Joost), Germany, Alsace, Switzerland, and Austria, where he is represented on the mausoleum of Maximilian in Innsbruck.
Also surviving are fourteen great-grandchildren; his brother, Dan Heaberlin; his mother-in-law, BarbaraEldridge; his brothers and sisters-in-law, Virginia (Dave) Harmon, Joyce (Lynn) Riethmiller, and ...
DaveJoyce, a Republican first elected to the position in 2012... Joyce has been elected to Congress seven times. A Joyce campaign official didn’t respond to a request for comment on O’Neill’s announcement.
According to Fiala, the city is in receipt of the funding for phase one work at Osborne Park... “The city will watch closely to see if the $2 million from Congressman DaveJoyce is withheld,” he said ... ....
DaveJoyce, R-Ohio 14th, has his heart in the right place, once again introducing legislation requiring the U.S ... Joyce’s bill has bi-partisan support — two Democrats and another Republican are signed on as co-sponsors.