Working Daze follows the employees trapped at MacroMicroMedia. MMM is a wanna-be software giant, and it's staffed by geeks and clueless management types. VP Rita will try anything that might make a little money (though her ideas usually don't.) Underpaid Dana carries he place and keeps it running, while overpaid Ed sleeps all day. Roy and Kathy are made for each other, and everyman Jay never knows when to keep his opinions to himself. Writer/creator John Zakour is a humor/sci-fi writer, whose work includes the Zach Johnson detective novels. Artist Scott Roberts was a longtime contributor to Nickelodeon Magazine, and is the author of the fantasy novel The Troubling Stone. John and Scott met when they both worked on the Rugrats newspaper strip.
Check out John Zakour and Scott Roberts' latest web comic, Maria's Day!Zakour-Roberts - All Rights Reserved.
Wordless by Len Borozinski
Working It Out by Charlos Gary
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Dennis Wiles said, 11 months ago
oddly Roys brother looks alot like mine well mine if he was cartoonized
Sack of Rabid Weasels said, 11 months ago
A character that’s not socially inept, a thinly veiled excuse to rip on your boss, nor a Mary Sue plot device? This is definitely Scott’s idea.
Michael said, 11 months ago
Doesn’t his brother look like a chubby Popeye?
JackButler said, 11 months ago
The mouth in the ear is a give-away. Definitely.
Thomas Scott Roberts
said, 11 months ago
@Michael
Popeye would either have more hair or less, depending on whether you’re thinking of the original comic strip Popeye, or the later animated Popeye. And he’d have that cleft chin and jutting jaw. Not to mention the one squinted eye.
Thomas Scott Roberts
said, 11 months ago
@JackButler
I draw that ‘mouth-to-the-side’ expression on pretty much all the characters.
ghostkeeper said, 11 months ago
I hate him already.
Clark Kent said, 11 months ago
Off topic, but notice the ugly utility cables in the background?
With the 3 trillion and counting that was wasted on cheneys illegal wars in the middle east we could by now have place communication cables and power lines of 3, 4, and 5 digit voltages safely underground and removed the poles that used to dangle then menacingly over our heads. The 6 digit joltages are relatively safe on their big ugly steel towers. (6 digit AC is difficult to bury)
johnzakour
said, 11 months ago
This new character is named after my brother inlaw. :)
Slywlf
said, 11 months ago
Roy actually has a good point – I was in love with Spock, not Leonard Nimoy – there is a difference! ;-)
Thomas Scott Roberts
said, 11 months ago
@Clark Kent
That’s a street near my old apartment in NJ. The red brick building is a discount furniture outlet where I bought two big, overstuffed recliners. The same street has appeared in various disguises in other WD strips.
johnzakour
said, 11 months ago
@Thomas Scott Roberts
I hope that street doesn’t come and ask us for royalties now.
silverdragonkelly said, 11 months ago
@Slywlf – Agreed, though I always wanted MacGyver, not Richard Dean Anderson. I also would have gone for a younger Picard, but not Patrick Stewart.
silverdragonkelly said, 11 months ago
and Holy Cats! How about Lee Adama (BSG reboot)!!! (though, not Jamie Bamber).
And thank you John and Scott for all the BSG references over the years!! I have a bunch of them hanging on my bulletin board. BSG was totally underrated!!!
econ01 said, 11 months ago
@Clark Kent
Burying cables is expensive, and while it does increase reliability normally, if there is an outage, finding the fault is something of an ordeal. Refer to the events in Aukland, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1998_Auckland_power_crisis. Part of the problem was finding where the lines had faulted. Personally, I find overhead lines no more offensive than all of the asphault we use for our automobiles.
And today’s comic is good stuff. Keep ‘em comin’.