A wacky vision of the world that exposes the hidden hilarity in ordinary circumstances.
Cartoonist Dave Whamond offers an offbeat view of the world in Reality Check, his daily and Sunday comic panel that exposes the hidden hilarity in everyday situations. A thoroughly wacky look at life, Whamond explains, "I just frame some of the silliness of everyday life in the comic and invite people to take a double-take -- to look at life from another angle.
Reality Check is more a state of mind than anything else. The characters could be people you know -- maybe even a bit of yourself -- but the names have been changed to protect the innocent." Whamond was born in Edmonton, Alberta and grew up in the small northern Canadian town of Whitecourt where, he says, "there was nothing to do but draw cartoons." He discovered doodling at an early age, practiced through many math classes and attended the Alberta College of Art, where he studied visual communications and discovered his true passion -- cartooning and illustration.
Whamond freelanced at The Calgary Herald as an editorial cartoonist, sharing duties with the paper's staff cartoonist and publishing three cartoons a week while still in college. He honed his skills at the Herald for five years before devoting himself full-time to freelance illustration for magazines. Whamond's illustrations have been published in Sports Illustrated, National Geographic World, Financial Times, Owl Magazine, Psychology Today and T.V. Times, among others. He also illustrates a monthly feature for Sesame Street magazine.
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Pacopuddy said, 6 months ago
In those days, when they used mouths for something other than eating, they were thinner, too.
PICTO said, 6 months ago
@Pacopuddy
In those days their thumbs were smaller also.
octabrain said, 6 months ago
Back in the day, before the internet, comic strips actually had to be clever. Publishers wanted funny comics. Now days online publishers are looking for quantity, so if you can commit to a daily commic strip, you too can be a published cartoonist. You don’t even have to be funny.
Stephen Gilberg
said, 6 months ago
The age seems to have produced a pencil-necked hunchback, too.
John Ashley
said, 6 months ago
re; octabrain- obviously, you didn’t get it. Maybe the comic strip author should have texed it to you.
Pacopuddy said, 6 months ago
@PICTO
and probably had fewer joints