Category Archives: Humor

Like Father, Like Daughter: J Comic #1 – Mr Plate Runs

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I showed my Saturday comic series on my blog to my6-year-old daughter and she loved it!  Since my comic strip series does look a bit like a kid’s cartoon, I guess I shouldn’t have been surprised…

So without further ado, Here is the comic strip created by my 6 year old daughter!

Kid's comic strip

My Daughter's First comic

Thanks J!

My daughter loves to write books!  She usually averages 1 or 2 a day easily!  Part of her books creating process  is drawing the illustrations.  Once she saw my comic, she know that she could help out by creating a comic strip of her own!  So that this exactly what she did!

I think kids are great and any additional encouragement that they can get is wonderful!  So I was both happy and honored to let her include her comic strip series on my site!

Here is some background information about her comic strip:

  • My daughter did all the artwork herself
  • I scanned the image up and helped colored them in.  I also made some lines darker because of scanner issues.
  • My daughter did the word bubbles and all of the text!
  • I’m very proud of her for offering to help me with the blog!

I hope you enjoyed the comic strip from my 6-year-old daughter!  She’s always been artistic and helpful.  I know that her post will be one of my most favorite ones, especially as time folds!

So if you can leave a comment for her, I’m sure she would love it.  Afterall, I’m sure she’ll be reading them 🙂

Thanks!

-MR

Funny Money Comic 5 – Mr. Penny is Making a List

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Previous: Comic 4 – Mr. Penny Learning Finances

Comic Strip Notes:

I’m ready for Christmas to come this year!  I’ve even seen a few houses all decked out with Christmas Decorations!

Links to 3 Funny or Interesting Sites:

Grumble Rumblings Of The Untenured: Videos on fixing things – I intended on linking to something funny on Nicole and Maggie”s site, but this article was so darn useful, I had to include it instead!  Check it out if you need to fix something that is broke!

Len Penzo: https://www.lenpenzo.com/ – Len’s site is both funny and a very entertaining read.  Soak it all in because even his homepage has very funny elements!

MacHall:  https://www.machall.com/ – I included this site because of the incredible artist that created this not defunct comic series.  It’s still worth going back into the archive and checking out the artwork, then the humor.

Thanks for stopping by!

-MR

Funny Money – Comic 4 – Mr. Penny Learning Finances

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 Mr. Penny’s Financial Education

Next: Mr. Penny is Making a List
Previous: MR PF Gets Scared
Special: Color versus Black and White – What say you?

Comic Strip Notes:

Pressed again for time, I had to throw this together quickly, so I used one frame copied, with just the conversation changing.  In the future, I may use either one, two or three panel, instead of only three.  Sometimes just a single panel would work just fine…

I don’t think I’ve even done a side profile of a comic before!  It’s different from what I imagined it would be!

Notes about Mr. Penny:

Mr. Penny’s head is really a penny shifted off-center to give it a sideways oval shape.  The fire-like hair is to represent a few things.  One being how Mr. Penny burns through money…  Mr. Penny is so thin to represent that he get by on the thinnest of margins.

Mr. Penny represent at least 4 friends of mine and their spending behavior.

Notes about MR:

The Money Reasons site is pretty small still (even if I did double my traffic in the past 2 months).  So the representation of MR is still a speck but growing.  While I’m still just a single point of reason, I now bigger than previous representations, and I decided to color the dot green both to represent money (frugal, investments, wealth), and the fact that I also try to do environmentally sounds practices.  Per Kris’s suggestion from Everyday Tips and Thoughts, I added a smiley face!

At certain milestones in the Money Reasons blog’s existence, I’ll evolve the look of MR.

Links to 3 Off the Beaten Path Links:

Venetian Princess:  This beautiful parody entertainer is also a one-woman show with her parody videos.  Mostly, she does it all, with a green screen in her room.   Beautiful and talented, a winning combination and very successful!  If you want to be floored by some fascinating videos, check her youtube site out.

Punch Debt In The Face:  Interesting (and very original) blend of stick figure humor and personal finance (with great emphasis on the personal aspect).  Warning, this site is addicting because of the original humor!  If you visit more than twice, I think you’ll be hooked!

Budgets are Sexy:  And now the best for last!  J. Money’s site is both humorous and filled with great financially related posts!  Fun stuff all around!  Nice Blend J. Money!

That’s All Folks!  Have a great weekend!

-MR

Funny Money comic strip – Color versus Black and White – What say you?

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I’ve added color to my 2nd comic strip “Funny Money Comic 2“, and I like the results a lot more than the black and white version.  What do you think?

Original Version (B/W):

Original version of Funny Money Comic 2

Original version of Funny Money Comic 2

New version using colors:

color comic

MR Color Version Comic 2


I just wanted to add a bit of color!

Other ideas are coming in the next edition.  Kris from Everyday Tip
& Thoughts suggested some ideas that I will be implement with the next realease.