Goodbye to Mr. Spider and to the baseball season for 2007. Congrats to the Red Sox and fair warning as well…the Cubs are coming! Shhh..shhhh…yes they are. Yes they are. I have spoken!

My web host provides some great stats so I can see how many people visit the site and what gets read, etc. I know we’re getting a lot of readers of “I Am Dad” and I think it’s great!

Do me a favor - if you like what you see, email me or post a comment. And if you don’t like what you see, let me know as well.  Thanks.

There’s a joke that equates Lutherans and their love of a potluck lunch/dinner. I can attest to this. I love the soup and sandwich potlucks at our church, Pontiac First Lutheran.

Here’s the cartoon that will appear in the October church newsletter.

So this student in Florida gets tazered for asking questions and being annoying during a Senator Kerry appearance. The story we see in the media is, as usual, one sided.

However - when did people become sooo strong and sooo powerful that the police need to tazer as a matter of protocol? Cuffs? Check. Read the Miranda Rights? Check. Tazered him until he peed his pants? Check. Mmmmm…it’s good to have a badge.

The story ticked me off enough that I worked up a quickie cartoon. I’m calling these quick editorial cartoons “Niblets.”

This one’s for our church newsletter. The pastor is a HUGE Chicago Cubs fan…as am I. I’m hoping to make this panel a recurring part of the church newsletter and possibly for other churches as well.

Here’s every Super Toaster I ever made. You can see the last one was done in 1997…the same year I started my business. After 10 years, I’m working on the next comic.

My kids love these, partly because I made them, but also partly because they can relate to them. The art is simple, the story is grandiose, and the characters are simply ridiculous.

Super Toaster #1
Super Toaster #2
Super Toaster #3
Super Toaster #4
Super Toaster #5
Super Toaster #6
Super Toaster #7
Super Toaster #8
Super Toaster #9
Super Toaster #10
Super Toaster #10b
Super Toaster #11
Super Toaster #12
Super Toaster #13
Super Toaster #14
Super Toaster #15
Super Toaster #16
Super Toaster #17
Super Toaster #18
Super Toaster #19
Super Toaster #20
Super Toaster #21
Super Toaster #22
Super Toaster #23
Super Toaster #24
Super Toaster #25
Super Toaster #26
Super Toaster #27

It’s weird that I saved these originals for so long. I have no idea how I hung onto them through college, first apartment, second apartment, first house, marriage, second house, third house, four kids, etc.

I look at these now and I still like the stories. I love the characters for the innocence of the concept. I love the values that I worked into the stories: education, science, math, good, evil, love, science fiction and more that those who are more literary that I could detect.

Let me know what you think of Super Toaster!

This is the first comic I can remember doing with any frequency:

Over 20 years later, I still have the originals! My kids think these are a crack up. I’ll post what I have and publish the next episode (#28) asap.

Everything seems to be working at this point. If anyone actually reads this, besides me, and you find something is goofed up, please let me know.