Mike Dawson

The best part of cartooning

2022-11-22 17:26:15 +0000 UTC View Post

Let It Go

Too Old For Frozen

Lori from The Fifth Quarter is too old to enjoy watching Frozen.

I have a school visit on Thursday that I've been fine-tuning my presentation for, including adding...

New Pants - Public Post

I don't like shop...

November Ashcan

Reminder that $5 members of my ‘Zine Club will be receiving a bonus “ashcan” in the mail next month. Life During Interesting Times, a small print adaptation of an Eisner award nominated essay I published at The Nib, with revised text and new collages throughout.

Thankyou as always to everybody supporting me here. Seems like my trusty Mac desktop is in its last days and will need to ...

September 2020

I have a small comics project in the works, expected to go live in the next few weeks, dealing a little bit with accomplishing small tasks during lockdown and how we’re allowing many of the memories of what that was like to go down the memory hole. This comic took me back on some of that stuff. I will of course post about that new piece when it’s up.

Reminder, all ‘Zine Club Plus me...

"Life During Interesting Times" ashcan

November 'Zine Club Plus extra

2022-10-19 13:49:29 +0000 UTC View Post

Comic in Progress for $5 Patrons

2022-10-14 18:25:49 +0000 UTC View Post

New Words

Are Better Than When There Were No Words At All

2022-10-12 15:11:45 +0000 UTC View Post

I can see clearly now…

Early Pandemic Diary. April 3, 2020.

I’m slowly working on a presentation for children about writing comics and memory, and it has me revisiting some of the diary comics I wrote during the very early pandemic. This one from fairly early on reminded me how the first time I ever wore a mask outside I was self-conscious that I was going to look dumb.

I have zero, zero, ZERO nostalgi...

Honor Your Intentions

#inktober

FUN TIME FALL 2022 - going into the mail

I wanted to share this update to let Patrons know my new 'zine with the unwieldy title FUN TIME FALL 2022, SELL-OUT COMICS (the Generation X issue) is going into the mail this weekend. Please allow a few days to arrive, but if you haven't received your copy in the next seven to ten da...

Rise Roar Revolt

It's been a while since I've had that feeling of "I wish I could experience this for the first time again". Trul...

March 2020 Memories

Just because we're social distancing doesn't mean we should become socially distant.

2022-09-27 15:22:15 +0000 UTC View Post

Best Worst Costume

Extremely importa...

Pasty Skin

An update for my $5 and up Patrons: I have been working on new "D+D" pages, but not enough yet for a proper update. A lot of my energy and effort the past two weeks has been spent producing original comics for the new issue of my FUN TIME 'zine.

2022-09-21 13:20:40 +0000 UTC View Post

It was either 1992 or 1993

Short comic from my new 'zine, FUN TIME FALL 2022. 

Unlike the first one, the Fall issue is going to ...

It's Difficult To Imagine

2022-09-10 13:47:01 +0000 UTC View Post

D+D episode 3

Daddy-Long-Legs balls

continued next Wednesday

D+D episode 2

The "Canadians"

2022-08-31 15:01:04 +0000 UTC View Post

Say “hi” to Grandma

I’d like to be the first middle-grade graphic novelist to accurately depict a Gen Z kid talking on a phone

D+D episode 1 - "Kiddie Army"

2022-08-24 14:58:06 +0000 UTC View Post

Video Games

Are either bad for you or extremely enriching depending on whether I like playing them or not

David+David - update for $5 Patrons

This is an update for everybody supporting me at the $5 and more level.

First off, thank-you for your continued support. I can't tell you how much I appreciate it. 

I want to give you a heads-up about a new feature I'm going to be offering exclusively for $5 Patrons. 

This past year I started creating minicomics and 'zines again, which has been a real treat. I absolu...

Soon.

This is a diary comic I made somewhere in the middle of that first year of the pandemic, when we were all at home, stuck on our screens, not seeing anybody.

I include this strip in the presentation that I take to school and libraries, to talk to the kids about how art and writing can be a place to expl...

Vision Quest

Okay, we’re informed, so now what?

Hypocrisy

Stranger Things

*yes, I know Eddie Munson wasn’t an actual older brother to any of the characters, but he had all the vibes

FUN TIME FALL 2022

I made a total mess rolling out my new ‘zine, first publishing a post where I’m calling it one thing and then changing my mind and coming up with something new and having to repost, but such is the nature of this Patreon…

I just want to share the final cover image to the new ‘zine I will be publishing and mailing to backers in September. FUN TIME FALL 2022, full c...

Generation YECCCCHH!

Announcing the next mini-comic I will be producing as part of my Patreon zines-by-mail subscription offering: “Generation YECCCCHH!”, the title and logo fully appropriated as is ...

Teach Your Children Well

This is an older cartoon, recently polished up and colorized for inclusion in the presentation I take to schools and libraries to talk to kids about comics. The purpose of this strip in the slideshow is to make the point that comics can be about anything, even a dad’s inconsequential paranoid phobia about going inside of port-a-potties.