Dad Jokes!
Here are a few of my favorites. Groaning is encouraged.
On January 1, 2021, I set out to draw one dad joke a day for a month. I kept going for the entire year: 365 illustrated jokes! My favorite 250 became The Illustrated Book of Dad Jokes, a 6" × 6" book with the setup on one page and the illustrated punchline on the facing page.
The Story Behind the Book
What started as a one-month experiment turned into a daily habit. More and more folks wrote to tell me they were sharing the jokes with family, friends, and students, and that kept me going. With very few exceptions, each joke was drawn the day it was published. Along the way, my lettering, speed, and style all got noticeably better.
Turning the drawings into a book meant revisiting every one of them: updating the lettering and layout, and sometimes rethinking the joke entirely. I drew everything in Procreate on an iPad Pro, laid out the pages in Affinity Publisher, and published through Amazon's Kindle Direct Publishing.
Want the nerdy details? Read the full story of the book.
Need a cartoon of your own? I take commissions, and puns are always welcome.