My friend Lance Ward recently asked me to do a guest strip for his comic strip Tater Tot Diaper Man, and an introduction for his upcoming book collection of TTDM strips. Since TTDM is one of my favorite webcomics, I was delighted to accommodate him. You can subscribe to Tater Tot Diaper Man here. Here is the guest strip:

It was a pretty fun challenge. Lance laid down the rules to me for drawing a TTDM strip… work small on some paper he provided with panels already drawn (both strips are 5.5″ x 8.5″), and use no pencils… just straight up ink. Also, the writing had to be spontaneous, with no writing or planning in advance… which is how I usually work. I cheated and used a couple dots of white-out where I had committed accidental illegibilities, but otherwise I stuck to the plan.

I decided to do the intro in this format as well. Here is the intro: