Work Comics

Comics Made While At Work

For quite awhile, I worked with a little bit of freedom that allowed me to draw here and there while on the job. I thought it would be a fun challenge to make sketchy comics while at work. Don’t worry, it didn’t affect my performance. I was mediocre at my job whether I was secretly drawing or not.

I would draw the comics out on a sketchpad, and then add some shading or color later at home. It was breezy and fun. Shouldn’t all creativity be breezy and fun?

Some of these became quite popular. I started thinking that the I stuff impulsively drawn at work (or iDAW) was much more effective than serious planned out material (known as SPOM).

So here’s some iDAW. These aren’t necessarily the most popular ones, but the ones that I could immediately find on my back up disks. This post is a sort of iDAW.

The first one with the boss character. A friend liked this so much, he printed it out to hang at his job. The circle was complete.

My vacation was always the last one that anybody thought about. Vacations are like your career. You have to make it a priority, because nobody else will.

Dark. But not at all far-fetched, especially where I worked.

One of my favorites. I haven’t heard of anyone seriously presenting a glass half full/empty question since I was a kid. I thought it was a dumb question, so it deserved dumb answers.

There was a time where there were literally no jobs available. You were lucky, very lucky, to find a job flipping burgers. Luckily I was working and making comics at the same time.

And if there was a job posted, the flood of resumes was very sad. At least I though it was sad. Nobody else seemed to think it was.

I had a dedicated line with voicemail at my job. Write what you know.

Ok, this was said to me by a coworker. She said that no matter what job she had, it all seemed very good at first until they wheeled out the bitch. I could not let that one go undocumented.

Based on my old boss. RIP good job.

And when it rained, it also rained inside. They didn’t fix the roof, they built a whole new building. I thought that was a bit of a radical solution.

Do any of these still hold up? I honestly don’t know. I didn’t know at the time. I’m there with my sketch pad, just winging it. However, I still like the idea of creating something on the fly. I think iDAW should be a thing.