Val belongs to a book club with an assortment of characters from other strips , including Elly from '' For Better or For Worse '' , Alice from '' Dilbert '' , and Rose/Vicki the biker chick from '' Rose Is Rose '' , and Connie Duncan , the mom from '' Zits '' . '' Cathy '' was mentioned , but " could n't come till she found the right man and lost 10 pounds . " The book club also threw a baby shower for Joan , which takes place in the book '' There 's No " WE " in Crowning '' ( published in 2007 ) . This is a short collection that takes the reader from the first onset of Joan 's pregnancy till the birth of Luci by a midwife at home . Strips featuring the book club have appeared on at least three occasions and are republished in the 2005 trade paperback collection . ( See below . ) Along with 92 other cartoon strips , Eliot was invited to commemorate 9/11 in her daily cartoon in 2011 , the 10th anniversary of the attacks
9/11
September 11 attacks
Stone Soup (comic strip)