I never would have known it back when I was a kid, but I was destined to become a dance dad, the guy who drives his kid to dance lessons, recitals, competitions, and performances. It was a big part of our life, and I wrote and drew a lot of comics waiting in the lobby of a dance studio. Inspiration is sometimes just looking up from where you’re waiting for the kid’s class to be over, huh?
The four-panel format was my first and most used comic style, and it belies that fact that most of my audience was on Insta which (at the time) relied on square images. It was a great format and four squares is sometimes just the right amount to play around with a particular gag.
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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