Rules For Dating My Daughter
Cartoon Dispatches From the Front-lines of Modern Fatherhood
The title story went viral on Upworthy.
Many of the stories were created as online features for Slate, The Comics Journal, Upworthy, The Nib, and others. The author generated a lot of traffic and notoriety.
Topics in the book are timely and sticky:
- Rules for Dating My Daughter
- Gun Rights
- The gendering of toys
- Fatherhood
Mike Dawson is the author of three books: Freddie & Me: A Coming-of-Age (Bohemian) Rhapsody a memoir of his childhood obsession with Queen, Troop 142, a sordid tale of a New Jersey Boy Scout troop away on a weeklong Summer camping trip, and Angie Bongiolatti, a story about sex, socialism, and Online Learning in post 9/11 New York City.
Currently Mike is the host of TCJ Talkies, Book Club podcast at The Comics Journal, where cartoonists come on to discuss graphic novels they’ve read.
He lives in Fair Haven, New Jersey with his wife and two children.
