And while I often drew a lot of gags that revolved around running, we never shied away from an active lifestyle in any climate. We dabbled in biking, skiing and more, and the kid’s frequent reluctance to step away from her gadgets usually rubbed up against her equally strong desire to explore the world through these kinds of crazy adventures.
So much of what I drew fell into the category of “parenting” because at it’s core the strip was about being a dad. What you may not have noticed (or maybe you did) was two things. My wife was never in the strip (by design) and she was and still is fine (prefers) that. And two, the kid character always spoke in lower case. It made me happy the first time a reader pointed that out because, yeah, it was on purpose.
Sometimes in the act of making new models for my work no comic ever came out of the effort. It was just a neat drawing that I wanted to share, even though it didn’t fit in as a proper gag or multi-panel comic strip. This is one of those examples.
You may have noticed some redundancy in the written content in these posts, particularly if you’ve been reading more than one or two of them. A couple years ago the original piday.ca site was hacked and lost… and I have had to rebuild it all from scratch. I had all the comics and art, but I have taken some shortcuts with a bulk content editor to try and give those comic strips as much context as I can.
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