Tauhid Bondia is one of the handful of Black cartoonists in syndication. His “Crabgrass” comic strip is now in over 125 newspapers, including The Plain Dealer, and he wants to push the figure upward.
CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Tauhid Bondia can tell stories that go beyond the ones he tells as a cartoonist. Sure, his followers might prefer to hear him talk about “Crabgrass,” his popular syndicated comic strip, but they would miss the rest of his story.
“I love the fact that it is a comic about friendships in a simpler time – no mobile phones or Nintendo,” said Vivona, vice president of Group and Digital Sales. “It is about friends using their imaginations, playing outdoors and just being kids.” To find a comparison, you might want to look at “The Adventures of Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids,” a cartoon that ran Saturday mornings on television in the 1970s and early ‘80s.
Upon reaching middle school, he’d learned to draw the favorite cartoon character of everyone in his class. He soon mastered drawing portraits of people — of real people … of strangers, friends and family members. “I still remember that if you sometimes have to draw from reference, it’s OK, even if it doesn’t quite look right,” he said.His first serious efforts at cartooning weren’t quite right. Bondia started and stopped several strips before he drove himself hard to make one work; he titled it “Bells and Whistles.”
So around his job as a graphic designer, Bondia set his mind to sketching an idea he thought would sell. He had spent two years in developing the comic strip, and it just wasn’t good enough, Bondia began to think. Nobody was looking for a strip like his.
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