The grown up comic, for the kid in all of us!

About the Single Dad Diaries

Where did the idea come from?

The Single Dad Diaries started out as an idea for a novel I was writing, while working for a media company in the area of education. After a few months of writing, I had only written about 20 pages and didn't have the patience to finish it. I wanted to write a story about a single dad with commitment issues, balancing life as a single guy looking for "the one" while trying to be that Cosby dad... without the spiked drinks. During a layoff about 4 mths later, I got the idea to try it as a comic strip that could become a graphic novel or even a movie. I got initial ideas for strips from a journal I started when I got divorced, so I decided to make it a slice of life comic and have him recap his day or thoughts in a diary. Since I was laid off, I got a book from the library on being a cartoonist and got started right away on character design.

Ervin L Johnson