Vote Dog: A Pet Comics Collection

Meet President Dog
almost 6 years ago – Sun, Jun 03, 2018 at 08:18:22 AM

Hi, team! As promised, I'd like to do a few updates that preview some of the characters and comics that will be featured in the book. So I thought I'd start with our cover star:  President Dog!

I had a little trouble deciding whether to feature President Dog or Baker the Corgi on the cover, since they both star in a big chunk of the comics inside. But ultimately, VOTE DOG was too great a book title to resist. (And Baker made for a great corner-chewing element.)

I've been drawing comics about President Dog since 2015. The comic below is actually his very first appearance, reworked and colourized for our book:

President Dog is not one of those cartoon dogs that can talk (like Scooby Doo), or that thinks in English words (like Snoopy). He is just a regular dog. Some people have asked me asked how exactly he wound up being President. The answer is simple! He was elected. He is a very good boy.

VOTE DOG contains a bunch of stand-alone strips about President Dog executing the various duties of his office... meeting foreign leaders, mastering social media, you name it. But it includes a few longer President Dog stories, too! One is a brand new one that I'm making just for the book. In another, President Dog: Armageddon, he leads the nation during a potentially devastating meteor strike. And in President Dog: Election Season, he faces his greatest political rival: Candidate Cat.

Election Season is the longest President Dog story I've done. It contains a page I'm particularly fond of: one where President Dog runs away to find America.

I am very fond of President Dog. (And not just because I modeled him loosely after Mac, a real life Labrador retriever who is often sitting next to me while I draw.) I'm very excited about the prospect of all his comics finding a home in this book, and I'm glad you are, too!

And if you think there's anyone else in your life who'd appreciate President Dog, by all means, send 'em here to enjoy this little preview. The President can use all the support he can get!

Thanks again, everyone! 'Til the next update,

-Sam

PS: Here's a little bonus nonsense that I drew over the weekend, after receiving my 800th email about a website updating their Privacy Policy:

Woah! We're half way there!
almost 6 years ago – Mon, May 28, 2018 at 05:46:29 PM

Woah! Corgi on a chair!

Sorry about that. But seriously though, we are now over 50% funded! Thanks so much for all your support. I'm very excited about the prospect of making a nice print home for all these comics, and I'm glad you are, too!

Over the course of the campaign, I'll use these updates to keep you all up to speed about how things are going, as well as post some previews of some of the comics that will be going into the book. (And of course, you'll also find previews of a bunch of 'em in the "About" section of the project page!)

This is an interesting project for me! Some of the comics in this book have been pretty popular online, but a lot of the folks who liked them saw know them mainly from being reposted on social media or other websites, and don't actually know where they came from! My hope is that this campaign will find its way to at least some of those folks, and I really appreciate all the help from everyone who has been spreading the word and sharing this project with their fellow comic and critter lovers. You're all great!

'til next time,
-Sam!