Last weekend during my son’s nap time I had the occasion to spend some quality time with my daughter. I asked her what she wanted to do, and she wanted to draw. I said fine – but with some rules. I said we should make a comic strip. She wasn’t familiar with the concept, so we each made one. We drew little boxes to put our drawing in, and tried to tell a story from one box to the next. I couldn’t believe how well they came out – we read them to my wife and son (when he woke up) and they cracked up.

Here’s my daughter’s comic (I helped write out the captions, but she told me what to write):

And mine: