About
Actual Conversations With My Kids is a non-fiction web comic documenting 100% verbatim interactions with two children, as transcribed by their father, Greg Tulonen, and illustrated by Liv Wisely. It launched April 4, 2016, featuring a new comic every Monday and Wednesday. It concluded on July 3, 2017.
A note from Greg (2016):
From the moment each of my two kids could talk, they've been coming out with stuff that moves me, amazes me, and (most often) cracks me right up. I'd been transcribing these interactions for the better part of a decade, sharing them with friends and family, when I hit upon the idea of presenting them in comics form. But I can't draw — like, at all. Then a friend introduced me to artist Liv Wisely, who proved to be the perfect fit for the project.
The interactions depicted on these pages are, as the title implies, actual conversations I've had (or overheard between) my two kids. Not one word has been invented or embellished. Because they're real conversations and not scripted, they don't always have the setup-punchline cadence of regular comic strips, but they're nonetheless interesting and funny — at least to me.
They are not presented in chronological order, but rather jump around the years, with a visual cue in each comic indicating the child's age at the time of the conversation.
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Greg Tulonen writes novels and screenplays, short stories and comic books, web series and audio dramas, and an occasional play. Contact information and links to his work can be found on his website, gregtulonen.com. Greg lives in Auburn, Maine with his wife Kate and their two kids (now grown), whose names are not really Otter and Flapjack.
Liv Wisely is a friendly humanoid from outer space, somewhere in the vicinity of Betelgeuse. She is responsible for several online children's books, as well as a few small graphic novels made purely for the amusement of her family. Needless to say, she is exceedingly grateful to be given the chance to work with Greg, and to work on perfecting her craft.
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A note from Greg (2016):
From the moment each of my two kids could talk, they've been coming out with stuff that moves me, amazes me, and (most often) cracks me right up. I'd been transcribing these interactions for the better part of a decade, sharing them with friends and family, when I hit upon the idea of presenting them in comics form. But I can't draw — like, at all. Then a friend introduced me to artist Liv Wisely, who proved to be the perfect fit for the project.
The interactions depicted on these pages are, as the title implies, actual conversations I've had (or overheard between) my two kids. Not one word has been invented or embellished. Because they're real conversations and not scripted, they don't always have the setup-punchline cadence of regular comic strips, but they're nonetheless interesting and funny — at least to me.
They are not presented in chronological order, but rather jump around the years, with a visual cue in each comic indicating the child's age at the time of the conversation.
Greg Tulonen writes novels and screenplays, short stories and comic books, web series and audio dramas, and an occasional play. Contact information and links to his work can be found on his website, gregtulonen.com. Greg lives in Auburn, Maine with his wife Kate and their two kids (now grown), whose names are not really Otter and Flapjack.
Liv Wisely is a friendly humanoid from outer space, somewhere in the vicinity of Betelgeuse. She is responsible for several online children's books, as well as a few small graphic novels made purely for the amusement of her family. Needless to say, she is exceedingly grateful to be given the chance to work with Greg, and to work on perfecting her craft.