About

Daddy’s Girls is a digital comic which sprang from a spark of inspiration that my daughter gave me.  She continues to gift me with ideas that I’ll incorporate until she’s 18 and I can no longer claim her ideas as my own.

I’ve been writing professionally my entire adult life, and then some; but haven’t been cartooning that long.  Doodling yes, cartooning not so much.  Since 2004 I’ve been creating my own comics, mostly with other artists.  You can see them at http://www.kingtractorpress.com.  Like many with a degree in Fine Art (BFA double major: painting / photography).  I rarely used those skills after college.  The photography does come into play in my video/television/film work, but not a lot.

In high school I had a job at a movie theatre and would post my comic strips about my co-workers, film parodies, and buttered popcorn on the concession stand wall.   Then in college students at Atlanta College of Art college dorm would get my Resident Advisor comics shoved under their door on a regular basis.  I still have many of them in a box at storage.  The funny thing is one of my fellow college RAs was uber fantastic comic artist Stephanie Gladden http://stephaniegladden.com/ but we never talked comics that I remember.  My comic strips abruptly stopped after college.   Instead I studied “serious” art, got work in TV & film, and then focused more on my writing.  Only later did I pick the comics mantle back up and restart that passion when I started writing comics in 2004.  I originally got the idea of doing my own comic strip again in 2009 while brainstorming new ideas.  After a few false starts I came up with “Daddy’s Girls”.

Some of my abandoned ideas were interesting but didn’t have the hold on my soul that Daddy’s Girls does.  First I did a few strips about government workers, I ran out of steam fast on that one.  Then I tried to do a b&w series just about Blue Jude, but I realized quickly that it’s hard to do a B&W comic about a girl with blue hair.  I didn’t want to put an arrow in each panel with the caption “Her hair is blue.”  I tried to do a murder mystery but that morphed into a prose novel that I’m working on finishing.  I just wanted to do something fun, for myself, and learn about cartooning in the process.

Daddy’s Girls is a story that I’ve been working on for years.  The characters originally appeared in my script “Blue Jude”.  It’s a work in progress, please excuse the clutter as I work through my process.  But I do hope you enjoy the mess.

Daddy’s Girls is about love, family, friends, and all the girls that surround one lucky man.  Thank you for reading and letting me continue my doodling.

 

Shawn

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