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.”
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“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.”
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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!”
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Tauhid keeps his list of inspirations short and simple. “I’m mostly inspired these days by my favorite cartoonists. Folks like Will Henry, Bill Watterson, Scott Kurtz. All kinds of folks.”
In terms of the favorite part about art, he says it’s “finishing something. It’s also the hardest part. Finishing a piece is the very best way to inspire yourself to keep creating.”
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