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Extracurricular Gamer

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.

Personally, creatively and professionally I’ve always been a technology guy. The Kid benefited from an abundance of toys and games and gadgets in the house and it often led to interesting moments balancing parenting with the allure of distraction, media, the internet or otherwise.

We have always had games in the house and among friends, from eclectic board games to the latest video game consoles. And funnily enough, it turns out that when you teach a kid to play, all they really want to do is beat you at your own game.

They call this generation digital natives because they have never really know a world without social media and the internet. Parents of this group, myself included, may have thought we had a grasp on it all but if you had a kid like mine you would never have believed some of the mischief and comedic horror that emerged trying to navigate this brave new world unless I had documented some of it in my web comics… all of them shared on social media, too.

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.

068 – Bonus
Hashtag Uncomfortable

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.

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.

They call this generation digital natives because they have never really know a world without social media and the internet. Parents of this group, myself included, may have thought we had a grasp on it all but if you had a kid like mine you would never have believed some of the mischief and comedic horror that emerged trying to navigate this brave new world unless I had documented some of it in my web comics… all of them shared on social media, too.

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.

068 – Bonus
Commercial Success

Personally, creatively and professionally I’ve always been a technology guy. The Kid benefited from an abundance of toys and games and gadgets in the house and it often led to interesting moments balancing parenting with the allure of distraction, media, the internet or otherwise.

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.

They call this generation digital natives because they have never really know a world without social media and the internet. Parents of this group, myself included, may have thought we had a grasp on it all but if you had a kid like mine you would never have believed some of the mischief and comedic horror that emerged trying to navigate this brave new world unless I had documented some of it in my web comics… all of them shared on social media, too.

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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Promo (1)

Personally, creatively and professionally I’ve always been a technology guy. The Kid benefited from an abundance of toys and games and gadgets in the house and it often led to interesting moments balancing parenting with the allure of distraction, media, the internet or otherwise.
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.
They call this generation digital natives because they have never really know a world without social media and the internet. Parents of this group, myself included, may have thought we had a grasp on it all but if you had a kid like mine you would never have believed some of the mischief and comedic horror that emerged trying to navigate this brave new world unless I had documented some of it in my web comics… all of them shared on social media, too.
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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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.

Personally, creatively and professionally I’ve always been a technology guy. The Kid benefited from an abundance of toys and games and gadgets in the house and it often led to interesting moments balancing parenting with the allure of distraction, media, the internet or otherwise.

They call this generation digital natives because they have never really know a world without social media and the internet. Parents of this group, myself included, may have thought we had a grasp on it all but if you had a kid like mine you would never have believed some of the mischief and comedic horror that emerged trying to navigate this brave new world unless I had documented some of it in my web comics… all of them shared on social media, too.

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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This is Board Games (2)

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 have always had games in the house and among friends, from eclectic board games to the latest video game consoles. And funnily enough, it turns out that when you teach a kid to play, all they really want to do is beat you at your own game.

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.

They call this generation digital natives because they have never really know a world without social media and the internet. Parents of this group, myself included, may have thought we had a grasp on it all but if you had a kid like mine you would never have believed some of the mischief and comedic horror that emerged trying to navigate this brave new world unless I had documented some of it in my web comics… all of them shared on social media, too.

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.

038 – Part 2
Click Famous

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.

They call this generation digital natives because they have never really know a world without social media and the internet. Parents of this group, myself included, may have thought we had a grasp on it all but if you had a kid like mine you would never have believed some of the mischief and comedic horror that emerged trying to navigate this brave new world unless I had documented some of it in my web comics… all of them shared on social media, too.

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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Found Photos

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.

Personally, creatively and professionally I’ve always been a technology guy. The Kid benefited from an abundance of toys and games and gadgets in the house and it often led to interesting moments balancing parenting with the allure of distraction, media, the internet or otherwise.

They call this generation digital natives because they have never really know a world without social media and the internet. Parents of this group, myself included, may have thought we had a grasp on it all but if you had a kid like mine you would never have believed some of the mischief and comedic horror that emerged trying to navigate this brave new world unless I had documented some of it in my web comics… all of them shared on social media, too.

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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First to the Post

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.

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.

They call this generation digital natives because they have never really know a world without social media and the internet. Parents of this group, myself included, may have thought we had a grasp on it all but if you had a kid like mine you would never have believed some of the mischief and comedic horror that emerged trying to navigate this brave new world unless I had documented some of it in my web comics… all of them shared on social media, too.

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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Just Let’s Play

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.

We have always had games in the house and among friends, from eclectic board games to the latest video game consoles. And funnily enough, it turns out that when you teach a kid to play, all they really want to do is beat you at your own game.

They call this generation digital natives because they have never really know a world without social media and the internet. Parents of this group, myself included, may have thought we had a grasp on it all but if you had a kid like mine you would never have believed some of the mischief and comedic horror that emerged trying to navigate this brave new world unless I had documented some of it in my web comics… all of them shared on social media, too.

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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