Tauhid Bondia

20th TIME'S THE CHARM

I once set a firework off in my bedroom. It was a small one. One of those little jobs that shoots a stream of sparks out of three places on its sides so it spins furiously. I still don't know what ...

Crabgrass Process Video

This one is a sneak peak at a comic from the far flung future (December of this year)

DOES WHATEVER A HUMAN CAN

My driveway has an overhang that spiders love to start their webs in. They never get to finish them because they constantly get Godzilla'd by people coming in and out of the house. In fact I have s...

THE GREENS ARE GREENER

I didn't have my first garden tomato until I was full grown. In fact just about everything I ate as a kid came out of a box or a can. It's obvious now that processed food is terrible but who can af...

BRIGHT LIGHTS, BIG CITY

I wanted Miles' previous city life to pal a bigger role in his character development initially. I thought I'd draw on my experience staying summers with my NY cousins to write about it. But the boy...

A MAN OF MANY SKILLS

I did okay in school as kid. I wasn't exactly an over achiever. In fact my entire motivation for getting good grades was fear of getting in trouble if I didn't. 

THE BOY IN A WELL

I feel like there was always a spot were )legend has it) a kid died in some horrible way. I've often wondered about the origins of these stories. did big kids are them up to scare little ones? did ...

KEVIN ASKING THE REAL QUESTIONS

Growing up as a black kid in a predominantly white town, race was mostly only discussed as a curiosity. As kids we didn't understand racism or race relations much. It didn't make any sense to us ba...

I STILL KINDA WISH I WAS A DOG

It's true.

UNBREAKABLE CYPHER

Writing in code was always fun as a kid. The problem was never having a secret worth encrypting. In fact I don't think I ever deciphered a coded message that was worth the effort. 

TEEN YEARS 45

More Teen Years inbound!

IT'S THE PRINCIPLE OF THE THING

As you can probably guess I got blamed for things I didn't do a lot as a kid. In retrospect it probably evened out with the things I did and didn't get caught for.

AND HE WAS, INDEED, FINE

I've always found the relationship between kids and their stuffed animals in comics a little overly whimsical. I never wanted Kevin or Miles to spend much time leaning on the "power of imaginations...

YOU GOT KEVIN'D

It's important to always obey the letter of the law. 

CAR!!

This is the first Sunday strip I ever drew for Crabgrass and it remains one of the more artistically ambitious to date. If I never draw another stadium full of people it'll be too soon. Seriously, ...

PICTURE DAY!

Miles is just trying to share his drip, Kev. It's all love! 

Did anyone else hate picture day? I don't know how but it managed to sneak up on me every single year for twelve years of sch...

SEDUCED BY POWER!

Do kids still play with the water hose? Or the sprinkler? I can't even think of the last time I saw a sprinkler on a lawn. I can clearly remember having to dodge the arc of water from sprinklers ev...

NOT THE TOOLS!

When I first came up with Gene I wanted him to be handy with tools. Mostly because my dad wasn't particularly handy and neither am I. But every now and then I'll change an outlet cover or fix a wob...

THE WHOLE POINT OF SUMMER!

As a kid there was nothing that could make me drop everything like hearing the ice cream truck coming. I could literally be in the middle of already eating an ice cream cone and I'd toss it to chas...

BEST FORT EVER!

I had high hopes for this strip. It was supposed to establish the boys hideout in the woods. I planned for it to be a never quite finished collection of crates and plywood where they frequently rea...

CRABGRASS SOFT LAUNCH!!

As promised, I will begin posting new(ish) strips today, exclusively on Patreon. The "ish" here refers to the fact that the first batch of strips will be from the newspaper sales kit. A sales kit i...

Some... news

So there's been update on the Crabgrass newspaper launch, folks. Long story short: It's been pushed back to June 27. Long story long: This comes after a lots of debate and considerable effort on be...

Timelapse For a Future Sunday strip

Don't forget! Crabgrass returns soon!

More Redone Strips

Here’s one that I really like the original.  The art is just too far behind the curve to print as is. 

Here’s another early strip redone

Here’s another early strip reworked. This time around I decided to I didn’t like the idea of Kevin dragging and bossing Miles around so much. Miles used to be much more of a follower but I thin...

Sales Kit Strips

So when you get syndicated there’s a thing called a sales kit that you have to put together. It’s basically six weeks of strips that every paper runs when they pick up your comic. When you pick...

What does this mean to you?

Well, I'll tell you. First of all, yes, it does mean no new strips for a bit. Leading up to Crabgrass appearing in newspapers I've been hard at work preparing for a daily update schedule. However d...

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