Reality Amuck™

It's time for our family vacation and I didn't want to miss any more updates than I already have. Preparations for our family outing were taking up a lot of time and the kids being out of school wasn't helping. I had to think fast and come up with a way to keep the comic updating and get the kids out from underfoot. There was only one solution. Since I couldn't do this on my own, I had to take on a partner.

Ladies and gentlemen I would like to introduce you to my new partner in web comickery, my son Yoni:

We spent some time going over story ideas and working out the scripts Friday and then spent Saturday in a marathon of cartooning. Working with a creative partner is a lot more difficult than I expected. Back and forth we'd go. Each and every change had to be hammered out until both of us were satisfied.

As we were working on character designs I off-handedly asked, "Would you like to be a cartoonist someday?"

He looked at me with his serious face, brow furrowed, and said, "Daddy, I am a cartoonist."

That's why you can like this week's updates or not and it won't hurt my feelings in any way. There's nothing that could be said to me anytime soon that will take me off of this cloud.

Fathers and sons sometimes struggle to find a common ground. Sometimes it's a struggle that lasts a lifetime, sometimes it's never found. If cartooning and comic strips are to be our common ground, I'm glad we found it this early. Due to my own memories of feeling ashamed of my art and finally giving up on drawing for many years, I'm going to take this opportunity to do everything I can to encourage and guide him. When he grows up he may change his mind about what makes him happy. If he does that will be fine. If he still wants to pursue art of some kind he will always have my full backing.

Thanks for dropping by, I hope you enjoy this week's comics as much as I do.

P.S. He told me that since I use the name "Tovias" instead of my real name (Daddy), he wanted to use an internet name also and he picked "Yoni" So this week is brought to you by the team of Yoni & Tovias. Cartoonist Team since 2010.