Pawee's Strip Log

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.