SAHDs Land on the Funny Pages

First there was vice presidential candidate’s husbands and now comic strips are adding to the growing recognition of stay-at-home dads. Well, the comic strip actually started getting published in March, but who’s counting? Daddy’s Home, which is about a stay-at-home/work-at-home dad and his family’s antics, is picking up steam on the funny pages. The strip by Tony Rubino and Gary Markstein is now in big-name papers such as the Washington Post and Chicago Sun-Times. The comic started gaining some steam as it filled in this past spring during Doonesbury's hiatus in many papers. Now as the long-running For Better or For Worse officially goes into retirement, Daddy’s Home is stepping up to the plate. "I wanted to do a strip that appealed to the new dad - all the fathers out there who participate more in their children's lives than what we're used to seeing in the cartoon pages," Rubino told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. "Whether or not dads stay home these days, they're more involved than they used to be." One thing’s for sure: SAHDs aren’t a common theme on the funny pages. It’s as good a place as any to keep that recognition flowing.