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Moral stances seem limited to the choice between either...

Moral stances seem limited to the choice between either consuming or not consuming any given thing.

Detail from yesterday’s diary comic, from Rules For Dating My Daughter.

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SUNDAY AUGUST 30, 2015 - A brand new diary Comic. TW: animal...

SUNDAY AUGUST 30, 2015 - A brand new diary Comic. TW: animal cruelty.

The comic, LONGSTREET FARM, which is referred to in this strip, can be read here.

From the book, Rules For Dating My Daughter

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LONGSTREET FARM - The simpler way of seeing things is often the most likely to stick, so perhaps there are some simple truths about ourselves that I can impress upon my kids.

From the collection Rules For Dating My Daughter.

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This is one of my favorite pieces in Mike’s upcoming book — with a really clever way of using images to show how little we are able to comprehend huge stretches of history.

Really, if you haven’t yet, why not sign up for this book on Kickstarter?

Mike Dawson’s essay comics are really inspiring in how they juggle immediacy and subtlety.

Gentle reminder, the Kickstarter to order this book is live for only two more weeks, and if you order a copy during the campaign, shipping is free (US backers only).

Also, the PDF of the book is not something I currently have plans to offer outside of the Kickstarter campaign.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/264311413/rules-for-dating-my-daughter-by-mike-dawson

Happy Birthday Freddie Mercury!Also Werner Herzog’s...

Happy Birthday Freddie Mercury!

Also Werner Herzog’s birthday.

Also my Mother-in-Law’s birthday.

#Animal #Comics #factoryfarming #drawing #inking #awfulness

#Animal #Comics #factoryfarming #drawing #inking #awfulness

SP QA: Mike Dawson on Rules for Dating My Daughter

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Nine days ago Mike Dawson started a Kickstarter campaign to publish Rules For Dating My Daughter: Cartoon Dispatches from the Front-Lines of Modern Fatherhood

Five days later he met his goal.

Rules For Dating My Daughter is a new book of comics about marriage, parenthood, politics, and raising two small children in present day America. The comics in this collection examine a wide variety of topics, from after-school pickup and Disney’s Sofia the First, to gun control issues and impending environmental collapse. Simultaneously political, philosophical, and humorous, these first-person cartoon essays all seek to answer the book’s central question, Am I Good?

My thanks to Dawson for this interview.

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Thankyou Tim O'Shea for these questions

AM I GOOD? - I believe myself to have “good...

AM I GOOD? - I believe myself to have “good politics”, but what does that really mean?

From the book, Rules For Dating My Daughter

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Informal Kickstarter UpdateI’m one-third of the way through...

Informal Kickstarter Update

I’m one-third of the way through the campaign to fund the publication of my next book, Rules For Dating My Daughter, and things have gone very well. I’m currently inching past 150% of my goal, and have no complaints.

I announced two “stretch goals”, which were to pay some extra $$ to produce a book with nicer paper and better cover stock, and also to include a new essay that I hadn’t yet mentally committed to writing. I’ve hit both of those milestones.

I’m not sure about further stretch goals… I’m on a deadline with this, so I can’t keep committing to making new essays (I already have at least three that are unfinished), and I don’t think I want to upgrade the book to hardcover.

Hardcovers are nice, and the book fetishist part of me would love to make one (as well as the part of me that longs to be a “serious” author, who has hardcovers published of his books). But, I am not sure that it’s right for this comic. I might change my mind on this one.

I flirted with more ambitious stretch goals - either funding a reprint of Freddie & Me, or even a verrry obscure early graphic novella that I drew called Hedonism, but I’m wary of getting pulled into new projects that require a lot of time and energy to pull off. Running a Kickstarter is distracting enough. I’ve got new comics I want to write.

At this point, I think I’d like to realign the message of the Kickstarter, to make it all about pre-ordering a copy of the Rules book. Ordering through the Kickstarter means that shipping is included for all domestic backers, so cost-wise, it’s the equivalent of finding the book in a store and just paying cover price.

If you’re like me, and live nowhere near a good comic store that’s likely to carry this book, this might be an excellent option for you.

mikedawwwson:THE WRONG SIDE OF HISTORY Ugh, guns. The only...

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THE WRONG SIDE OF HISTORY

Ugh, guns. The only way I ever have any optimism about this issue is feeling like the tide of popular opinion is gradually turning to see the “culture” of guns for what it is: demented.

From the collection Rules For Dating My Daughter.

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More Freddie Stories #lyndabarry

More Freddie Stories #lyndabarry