Tag: food

Secret Ingredient

071 – Bonus

We’re not secret foodies, but raising a kid is sometimes about teaching them how to grow, cook and otherwise prepare food. Also, and maybe this is obvious, the title of the comic had an allusion to pastry in it, so… you know.
A very rare format I experimented with as the years wore on were the oversized comics. Stuck in my head I really wanted to draw a long-format story, something ten or fifteen pages long, and I had worked out a lot of the plot. It never happened, but I did spend a few afternoon working out larger formats and playing with longer stories. Of course, these got shared.
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.
Half Baked

070 – Bonus

We’re not secret foodies, but raising a kid is sometimes about teaching them how to grow, cook and otherwise prepare food. Also, and maybe this is obvious, the title of the comic had an allusion to pastry in it, so… you know.
Often when I came up with an idea for comic there was not enough material to build up into a full multi-panel joke. An offhand comment, a captured moment, or a simple glimpse at parenthood made for enough material to explain itself. In the tradition of single panel comics I often jumped into this format as a bonus strip for my readers.
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.
Saint Patcakes

070 – Bonus

We’re not secret foodies, but raising a kid is sometimes about teaching them how to grow, cook and otherwise prepare food. Also, and maybe this is obvious, the title of the comic had an allusion to pastry in it, so… you know.
From holidays to travel to living in a vast multicultural country, the Kid grew up exposed to all sorts of curious traditions that gave her a rich childhood. It also made for interesting comedic fodder for her parents trying to keep up with her infinite curiosity about the eclectic world in which she lived.
Often when I came up with an idea for comic there was not enough material to build up into a full multi-panel joke. An offhand comment, a captured moment, or a simple glimpse at parenthood made for enough material to explain itself. In the tradition of single panel comics I often jumped into this format as a bonus strip for my readers.
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.
Pie Day

069 – Bonus

We’re not secret foodies, but raising a kid is sometimes about teaching them how to grow, cook and otherwise prepare food. Also, and maybe this is obvious, the title of the comic had an allusion to pastry in it, so… you know.
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.
From holidays to travel to living in a vast multicultural country, the Kid grew up exposed to all sorts of curious traditions that gave her a rich childhood. It also made for interesting comedic fodder for her parents trying to keep up with her infinite curiosity about the eclectic world in which she lived.
And of course, I couldn’t miss out on the opportunity to write a pi day joke, could I?
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.
P-I-E-T Spells Diet

069 – Bonus

Late in my drawing journey I experimented with different formats, like the three panel full colour comic strip. I had been leaning keeping the smaller strips as black and white, but dabbled in adding more depth as the comic matured.
We’re not secret foodies, but raising a kid is sometimes about teaching them how to grow, cook and otherwise prepare food. Also, and maybe this is obvious, the title of the comic had an allusion to pastry in it, so… you know.
From holidays to travel to living in a vast multicultural country, the Kid grew up exposed to all sorts of curious traditions that gave her a rich childhood. It also made for interesting comedic fodder for her parents trying to keep up with her infinite curiosity about the eclectic world in which she lived.
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.
Cake Mistake

068 – Bonus

We’re not secret foodies, but raising a kid is sometimes about teaching them how to grow, cook and otherwise prepare food. Also, and maybe this is obvious, the title of the comic had an allusion to pastry in it, so… you know.
Often when I came up with an idea for comic there was not enough material to build up into a full multi-panel joke. An offhand comment, a captured moment, or a simple glimpse at parenthood made for enough material to explain itself. In the tradition of single panel comics I often jumped into this format as a bonus strip for my readers.
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.
This is Halloween (3)

064 – Part 3

My three panel black and white strips were published over the course of a mid-week posting spree, and through them I tried to tell a (still short) but longer arc story. For that reason you’ll see a (number) in the title because each is part of a trilogy of strips on the same topic. The topic was usually something interesting and relevant to what was going on in our life around that time including vacations, extra-curricular fun, or just around and about.
From holidays to travel to living in a vast multicultural country, the Kid grew up exposed to all sorts of curious traditions that gave her a rich childhood. It also made for interesting comedic fodder for her parents trying to keep up with her infinite curiosity about the eclectic world in which she lived.
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.
Breakfast in Company

057

We’re not secret foodies, but raising a kid is sometimes about teaching them how to grow, cook and otherwise prepare food. Also, and maybe this is obvious, the title of the comic had an allusion to pastry in it, so… you know.
Often when I came up with an idea for comic there was not enough material to build up into a full multi-panel joke. An offhand comment, a captured moment, or a simple glimpse at parenthood made for enough material to explain itself. In the tradition of single panel comics I often jumped into this format as a bonus strip for my readers.
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.
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.
This is Dance Competition (1)

052 – Part 1

My three panel black and white strips were published over the course of a mid-week posting spree, and through them I tried to tell a (still short) but longer arc story. For that reason you’ll see a (number) in the title because each is part of a trilogy of strips on the same topic. The topic was usually something interesting and relevant to what was going on in our life around that time including vacations, extra-curricular fun, or just around and about.
We’re not secret foodies, but raising a kid is sometimes about teaching them how to grow, cook and otherwise prepare food. Also, and maybe this is obvious, the title of the comic had an allusion to pastry in it, so… you know.
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?
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.
Chop Slow

049

We’re not secret foodies, but raising a kid is sometimes about teaching them how to grow, cook and otherwise prepare food. Also, and maybe this is obvious, the title of the comic had an allusion to pastry in it, so… you know.
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.
From holidays to travel to living in a vast multicultural country, the Kid grew up exposed to all sorts of curious traditions that gave her a rich childhood. It also made for interesting comedic fodder for her parents trying to keep up with her infinite curiosity about the eclectic world in which she lived.
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.