Pawee's Strip Log

The cartoon strip is an art that has its way to express the development of society through the style of American talks and it does not occur only in America, but it also applies to other countries too. They have their own languages within express their society as to incident through cartoon strip in the newspaper and media. In the cartoon strip I picked is about a small talk between a father and a daughter, and the readers thought. I notice this cartoon uses the language that is shown an everyday speech we use but more carefully because there is the children who can also read the cartoons. The readers understand this strip easily because they can recognize the fairy tale and nursery rhyme and even those, today’s society goes through of what’s happening; they can see what the cartoonist connect to the today’s society.

This cartoon strip is showing the interaction between Adam as a father and his children that how they communicate by using the formal language. As being a father, Adam has to be careful to use the language to speak to his daughter. This is a good thought of the cartoonist because this cartoon’s daughter is part of cartoonist’s life that looks like a real life even though in the pictures, the cartoonist has his own perspective of seeing people in the drawing. She is the reflection of parents’ daughters as their parents are reading his strip. If people found an improper language in this strip; people could claim for censorship to all cartoon strips. So Adam’s daughter is a promise person from the cartoonist to the people that he will use the proper language to protect himself from the troubles.

According to the relationship with his daughter, the cartoonist seems wise not to waste too many words of slang because the level of children understanding in the language. The daughter has become a listener to her father and learns his every word before she repeats some word she wants to mimic. So the cartoonist has to get in children’s mind and given the language in the form to the children that teach the children to communicate with the adult. It is gorgeous of the young children who have that kind of skill by using the language. Children language becomes the key of cartoonist who found it useful to his strip.

Adam is a father who becomes a great storyteller to his daughter. Because he has a lot of time to spend with his daughter, he is not concerned about missing his daughter and it benefits him which some fathers might consider it as a helpful option for them to stay with his daughters. He speaks to his children the story of what happened in his old times and connects it to the evidence that occurs in the very moment at today. Adam becomes a modern father who is teaching his children not only the language of fairy tales and nursery rhyme but also the language of social expressions. People should be concerned that if the children is growing and seeing many violence, contaminations or poverties, they might get the influence to change their perspective to the civilization. The cartoonist is a modern father to people who is wise to use the language that draws people’s thought.

This comic is about Adam staying at home and caring for the children. The use of language is simple as father talks to his primary school daughter. According to the daughter, his father probably has to use the simple vocabulary at the level of language that his daughter understands him. This could be the way the cartoonist found a trick to publish it because people are busy and they rush in the tight hours. They want to read some comics strip that they can read easy, funny and fast of what today’s going on. As the change of time, this dad, a representative of a male employee does not have to go any further from his home, he could become isolated and talked to himself when there is no adult peers to talk with but his children. This might be the sign of how the male employees who decide to work-at-home as the option gets the side effect of using the language; for example, the father who stays with his children that has to be aware of speaking the proper language. While he speaks with his children everyday, he probably recognizes himself as a storyteller that he had never been with adult peers before. The cartoonist is genius to use the modern language and chooses the fairy tales and nursery rhyme as a bedtime story to fit today’s look of civilization. Moreover, the environment has influence to the family’s language too. In the cartoon strip, it seems they are in the nice and warm house. Adam sits on a chair next to his daughter who tucks her with the soft blanket. They don’t have to face the cold air or live in frighten with the dangerous people in the dark. If they live on the street, their language might be strong and unsweetened. This is expression of language the cartoons communicate to people for many years and people get to understand its happening in society quickly.

Adam@Home is a daily strip by Brian Basset and was published Adam in 1984, later became Adam@Home. Now Brian is the author of the comic Adam@Home and runs in 275 daily newspapers across the United States. The cartoons are about the social change is developing in the male situations that more men are seen to stay home as the househusband and care for children, or do a career at home.


The main cartoon character is Adam Newman, like Brian himself, is a work-at-home husband and he is a funny dad in this family. Adam is also the side of expression of Microsoft Aging Workforce Campaign. Brian has a hope of this comic that “his cartoons will allow his fellow baby boomers to laugh their way through the awkward age of computing by helping them learn to customize their computer settings and counter the effects of age related difficulties, as he has, using Windows XP.” The other second character is Laura Newman, Adam’s wife. She works at the book store. She is not a work-at-home lady but she always gets a big burden of looking after children out of Adam’s shoulder everyday when she is done work and comes back home. They have three children. Clayton and Katy Newman are in elementary school now and they are annoying children like the others. Big brother, like the other kids have arguments with little sister. Together, they like to bug their dad and annoy him when he is focusing to get done on his work. Adam and Laura’s new baby son, Nick Newman is Adam’s new assistant when he looked for a paperweight or an answering machine.



This comic strip is telling people a sign of the big change in the gender that we see most men are staying at home to take care for their children or do a career. It gives people the thought what the effect will be if most men are staying home. It will be a good opportunity for men to get closer to the family. Also, it has the effect to the children to questions their dad and learn anything they want to know faster than if they ask their mother. Internet becomes a modern option to the men who are looking for a career called work-at-home. As example, I am a man who staying home and doing my homework online through the internet.





A forty six-year-old cartoonist, Brian Basset is the creator of the comic strip Adam@Home. He was born in Connecticut, but was raised in a Washington, D.C., town because his father works as a political cartoonist. He was influenced to be a cartoonist and started to draw the cartoons in grade school until now. After college at Ohio State, he thought the West needed a cartoonist. He began his job as a political cartoonist and worked at The Seattle Times for 16 years. In 1984, he began his new cartoon strip and published it as Adam, which later became Adam@Home.