It is with great pride and honor that I present to the world the first comic strip written, drawn, colored and lettered by my older daughter. Because she’s a pre-teen, I’m not going to use her name on the mean ol’ Internet, but I can’t help but share her amazing work. She drew this on Bristol board, I scanned it and converted the pencil lines to nice black lines for her, then she colored it in Adobe Photoshop (her first-ever use of the program — taken to like a duck to water!) and then she added the text and word balloons in Adobe Illustrator (the first time she used that program, too).
I pride myself on being a pretty decent writer, but I am unable to fully, eloquently express just how proud I am of my little girl. She truly is gifted. Beyond that, though, the fact that she looks up to her old man, sees him wasting time working on his comic, thinks it’s cool enough to try for herself, and wants to use comic creation to connect with me is enough to bring a wistful tear to my eye. As I said, I am proud and honored — humbled, in fact, by my amazing, wonderful daughter.
And in fairness and equanimity, I must say I’m sure it won’t be long before I’m debuting her equally-yet-differently amazing sister’s work here, too. She is just as wonderful. Life may be hard in many ways, but a beautifully talented family makes every struggle worth it. I am blessed.
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