Remember how good it was back in the day? Things used to be much simpler, innocent, and more fun. Don't you get that nostalgic feeling when you reflect on your childhood? No matter the decade or era, seemingly everyone has this little pearl of a memory inside their hard and ragged adult hearts.
Probably touched a string in your heart, and the memories started flooding right back? Good. Now you're in the perfect mood for Crabgrass Comics which brings its readers back to those "simpler times," the '80s. The choice for the decade is perfect; the era screams "nostalgia" to many—the dawn of the digital realm, the optimistic and upbeat cultural zeitgeist, well, almost anything can spark a warm memory. So take a stroll down memory lane, and sigh as you emphatically remember your own childhood. Oh, and by the way, they're so engaging that you'll probably want to read the first part, too!
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Want a parenting tip from the '80s, parents? Here's one in the example of the artist. "I’ve been drawing for as long as I can remember. As a kid, I was lucky enough to have a mother that supported my art. That’s so important for young artists. Just having someone encourage them to keep it up." Tauhid gave a few good tips to aspiring comic artists himself. "If there’s anyone with dreams of being a cartoonist, my only advice is that the main ingredient is time. You’ll get better at drawing. You’ll get better at writing. You’ll eventually build an audience. The only thing you HAVE to do is keep at it and give yourself time."
He supplemented us with even more wisdom in a follow-up interview: "Make as many comics as you can, share them with as many people as you can, and make your art easy to find. Opportunities only sometimes come from the thing you’re working on now. They just as often come from the thing you did years ago that made someone remember your name."
Grounded for being right... Yep, that's called "every child's everyday life."
Big things are brewing up for the comic, so be on the lookout. As the author said in an interview, he "just finished up the first Crabgrass book which should be in stores later this year. I’ve also been preparing for the newspaper launch which happens March 28th. I’m pretty excited about how things are going but I’m not sure it’s really sunk in yet."
I used to think kids conceived by accident were boys and planned kids were girls based on the small sample of me and my siblings
Big things are brewing up for the comic, so be on the lookout. As the author said in an interview, he "just finished up the first Crabgrass book which should be in stores later this year. I’ve also been preparing for the newspaper launch which happens March 28th. I’m pretty excited about how things are going but I’m not sure it’s really sunk in yet."
"Crabgrass is just the latest of several attempts to create a feature and find an audience over the years. I chose to make it about two best friends and base them on myself and my best friend as a kid. I think that personal touch is what helped it resonate more with people than my other comics did. But over time, Kevin and Miles have evolved so that they don’t really resemble us much at all. Characters sort of develop themselves after they’ve been with you a while.
I like to think about my comics as a fun reminder of how innocent, rotten, and just plain confused we all were as children," said Tauhid when asked how he would describe his comics. "Artistically, I like my style to be as organic as I can. I do everything digitally but try to hide that fact as much as possible. From a writing perspective, I try hard to at least make myself smile with each strip. The humor is important, but sometimes a poignant moment is just as important."
"I always like the Simpson’s method of storytelling where the beginning of a story gives no clue where it’s going to end up. The more I write for Crabgrass the more I find myself asking what unexpected twists I can cram into the story. As a result, I don’t do a lot of planning. I just take the story in a direction that excites me."
But the author doesn't believe in the "kids these days" attitude at all. "Kids these days aren’t that different than kids when I was growing up. They just have phones and the internet. They still play outside. They’re still in an absurd hurry to grow up. They still think they’re invincible. But, if there’s one major difference I think they are more acutely aware of the future. A defining quality of being a kid has always been the inability to see very far into the future and kids these days have been robbed of that a little. I don’t envy that about their experience. But I also think it equips them to have a better impact on tomorrow than previous generations."
Take some time and appreciate how well-executed these comic strips are. The narrative lines are interwoven, but all of it is encapsulated within a strip that has an entertainment value of its own. But Tauhid took years and years to refine this particular skill.
"I’ve had plenty of time to carve out my process. The strip has been in development for two years but I’ve also been creating comics for almost 20 years now. By the time I started Crabgrass my groove was pretty well established."
Aside from his impressive creative job, the author is very normal and down to earth. His hobbies consist of "mostly just video games and binging Netflix, if those can be called hobbies.
Until recently, I worked as a freelance graphic designer, but now I work on Crabgrass exclusively for my living. I went to Murray State University very briefly on an art scholarship, then didn’t do anything art-related for quite a while. I got my first art-related job as a graphic designer for a local custom apparel shop in my mid-twenties. I stayed there for about 5 years and when that place closed, I began working at a slightly larger custom apparel shop, which I stayed at for almost 7 years. I ultimately left that job to work for a friend who’d started an online media company. I got to draw comics, help design video games and do a ton of web design. It was a blast, but that too ended when the company was bought out. No matter what job I had, though, I was always working on some comic or other and sharing it online. After the media company gig ended, I decided to take a real stab at making comics my career. It wasn’t long before I started Crabgrass and saw more success than I’d ever had with a comic. Two years later, I’m still doing it and the audience is still growing somehow!"
They both got cake, i don't see the problem 😅 sounds like Krystal needs a talk about people having different difficulties.
Again, that assumes one was smarter than the other, when the grades might have just been a reflection of applied effort. In which case, mom giving an *equal* reward to the lazy one, just for being slightly less lazy this time, is a message to BOTH kids that they don't need to work as hard as they should.
Load More Replies...Motivated kids that get A's are sekf- motivated. Sometimes a child who gets the C average has worked twice as hard as the kid who got the A's. Effort should always be rewarded.
I'm a teacher and I know my kids who work super hard and still only max out at a C or B. I'll sit them down in private and tell them don't get discouraged. They are learning to work hard and persevere and to not give up. I'll tell them I'm just at proud of them as the ones for whom this comes easy. Then looking back on old FB accounts from kids I had 10 or 15 years ago, I'll see those average grade hard workers now have great jobs like engineers at NASA or pilots. They learned to fight and to study, while some of the ones who got As easy peaked in high school because they never learned how to study correctly for a master's degree.
Load More Replies...I wish my mom did this more. I was the “dumb” kid but whenever I did better she would just say stuff like “you’ll just do bad again” instead of encouraging my efforts.
Man, I'm sorry she didn't realize what a gift she has in you. Her issues are not yours, though. You are more than what happens to you. Thrive.
Load More Replies...What Crystal does not understand is that while straight A’s are her best, a C average might be Kevin’s best. School is a huge struggle for some kiddos. Different expectations for different kids. Maybe a “report card cake” isn’t the best incentive. Maybe something else is more appropriate.
The classic participation trophy. Why try when the reward is the same?
Yet they are not the main reward is the A also why not give your best? Do the participation medals in races take away from those winning them? Or motivate more people to run 5k? If one child is running 2:10 on 800m the boy say when they are teens if the girl is slower. Only the one should be recognized? The mother should not recognize the difference in talents between her children?
Load More Replies...I can relate with the girl. She's working so hard to get high grades and the mom just acts as if it's nothing! It's annoying! Does anyone know how hard it is to keep straight A's!?
That's assuming the grades are purely a measure of applied effort, when maybe one child is just smarter then the other and good grades just come much more easily to her. Maybe she always works less and gets more, and it's just killing her that Mom is correcting that this time. 🙂
Load More Replies...Secretly reward the smart kid with a treat the next time you're alone together.
Poor girl works hard and brother gets same treatment. Mom should of said really proud of daughter and glad boy is passing.
That's a great way to create a toxic sibling rivalry if both of them are performing to the best of their abilities. Because it sends a message to the one who is getting lower scores that they are a lesser to their sibling.
Load More Replies...Look for the barrette. Then you'll know it's the girl. Plus I think the boy only wears white undershirts. Took me a few comics to realize as well.
Load More Replies...awww, reminds me of when i was a kid..then my mom would claim i cheated :/
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I think these are meant to be in order. They relate to each other, but they're all mixed up
They probably were in order when the author first made this, but they move from the greatest amount of upvotes to least as more people read and upvote. it is kind of annoying, though.
Load More Replies...check it out on https://www.gocomics.com/crabgrass. It's on hiatus while he works on his backlog for being in actual newspaper syndication, but you'll get to see the storylines in the correct order and without bits missing. (The wrestling line was a lot of fun linearly).
Oh thank you!!! I LOVE comics and graphic novels. I'm going to check this out now!!
Load More Replies...The art stile reminds me of Bill Waterson (as well as some of the writing stile). And I love it!
The creator is simply a genius. I see myself as a boy spread between Kyle, Kevin, and Miles in every strip. And the lil dudes are backstopped by the weary Moms and put upon Gene, filling in for Kevin's absent @$$hole "father". The series about Kevin's dad breaking the promise to go camping, and Gene's solution brought tears.
Load More Replies...These are really really good, I enjoyed reading them. Please do put them in order for easier reading.
I think as people upvote, they move positions on the list.
Load More Replies...I read these a year ago and loved them, but I wasn’t able to find them again for so long!
I think these are meant to be in order. They relate to each other, but they're all mixed up
They probably were in order when the author first made this, but they move from the greatest amount of upvotes to least as more people read and upvote. it is kind of annoying, though.
Load More Replies...check it out on https://www.gocomics.com/crabgrass. It's on hiatus while he works on his backlog for being in actual newspaper syndication, but you'll get to see the storylines in the correct order and without bits missing. (The wrestling line was a lot of fun linearly).
Oh thank you!!! I LOVE comics and graphic novels. I'm going to check this out now!!
Load More Replies...The art stile reminds me of Bill Waterson (as well as some of the writing stile). And I love it!
The creator is simply a genius. I see myself as a boy spread between Kyle, Kevin, and Miles in every strip. And the lil dudes are backstopped by the weary Moms and put upon Gene, filling in for Kevin's absent @$$hole "father". The series about Kevin's dad breaking the promise to go camping, and Gene's solution brought tears.
Load More Replies...These are really really good, I enjoyed reading them. Please do put them in order for easier reading.
I think as people upvote, they move positions on the list.
Load More Replies...I read these a year ago and loved them, but I wasn’t able to find them again for so long!