Mike Dawson

The best part of cartooning

I have a new story in the works that I’m hoping to have news about sometime soon, but I’ve also got a newer new concept percolating that I’m flop-sweat excited about, despite it only really being at the incoherently attempt to explain my ideas stage

Let It Go

Too Old For FrozenLori 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 this little strip to it. I'm so very fond of The Block Family, and sometimes wonder if I should develop more fa...

New Pants - Public Post

I don't like shopping, but I do like having on a pair of pants that look good and fit properly.'Zine Club UpdatesEarlier this month I dropped copies of my new ashcan 'zine into the mail for all $5 'Zine Club Plus members. If you haven't received yours yet, please let me know. On ...

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 ...

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 ...

"Life During Interesting Times" ashcan

November 'Zine Club Plus extraAt this point, copies of FUN TIME FALL 2022 should have gone to everybody signed up for either my 'Zine Club or 'Zine Club Plus membership. If anybody hasn't received their copy yet, let me know.In November I'll be sending out a little ashcan extra t...

Comic in Progress for $5 Patrons

A rough draft of a new comic essay I'm working on.I've been thinking recently that I should shift a bit of my energy away from creating comics to post for free on Instagram and make more of an effort to find publishers who might be willing to publish some of my material. This is a new comic ...

New Words

Are Better Than When There Were No Words At AllAn excerpt from one of the comics featured in the "Generation X issue" of my 'zine, FUN TIME FALL 2022.I don't think I'll ever get over how astonishing the change is regarding attitudes toward sexuality and gender my kid's genera...

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...

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 days, let...

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". Truly loved this film.Working on developing a positive attitude toward freelance life to maintain good mental health. Sometimes you're reaping, sometimes you're sowing....

March 2020 Memories

Just because we're social distancing doesn't mean we should become socially distant.School was out yesterday, which meant I got to deliver my "Cartooning Lessons" presentation and workshop at the Middletown Public Library to a very good-sized crowd of kids. I think there were about t...

Best Worst Costume

Extremely important stuff here.This is a real ranking that I keep. Puck used to be my number one, and Namor used to be on the list, but once I remembered Razorfist from the inaugural Wolverine story in the original Marvel Comics Presents series, I had to revise my picks.New Print Comic!My newest &#3...

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.I had thought about posting the new materia...

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 feature a lot more exclusive comics. I draw a lot of short diary and sketchbook comics which I post here and elsewhere on the web, and the SPRING 2022 issue collected some of my favorite pieces, bu...

It's Difficult To Imagine

Just because a thing is difficult to imagine doesn’t mean it’s a thing that cannot become real. This was a diary comic I wrote this time last year, reflecting on the twentieth anniversary of 9/11. Unfortunately there are a couple new formerly difficult to imagine global crises that have joined u...

D+D episode 3

Daddy-Long-Legs ballscontinued next Wednesday

D+D episode 2

The "Canadians"continued next Wednesday...

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"

Welcome to D+D, a new long-form comics project I will be serializing here this fall, exclusively for $5 Patrons. New episodes will be published at least once a week until the story is told.For those of you checking out this public post, in addition to access to this weekly webcomic, $5 Patrons also ...

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 cre...

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 ex...

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 p...

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 appropriate for something aping the fine-arts ethos of the 1990’s.This fellow here on the front is a drawing of a gu...

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 phob...