1) In looks, Digital Dave is based off of a friend of mine who is a very big dude with fire-engine red hair and a beard.  He's not overweight by any means, but I imagine he drinks way more Red Bull/energy drinks than he should.

2) His daughters mean a lot to him, but his job keeps him at the office a lot more than he likes, which is why he is trying to get out of the CIA.  By the way, his daughters are named after Firefly characters, but his wife hasn't put it together. She just really liked the names, too. They're the light of his life, and all of the programmers get a kick when they visit because the older one is already starting to disassemble old CPU units and fix phones for them.

3) His fear of Sarah Walker is very real. He respects her, but there's a clear divide between the field agents and the computer guys for a reason. Thankfully, he'll get over that as Sarah will be the godmother of his third child, who will be, ah, a surprise.

4) Digital Dave is actually inspired a lot by my friend Aardie, who came up with most of his tech-related dialogue in later chapters. He's a very left-brained person, while I am not. I have to work hard not to project my right-brained ideas onto him.

A collection of over 150 cartoons from ComputorEdge Magazine by Jim Whiting and Jack Dunning about the trials and tribulations of using computers and the Internet. Cartoons include Death getting his identity stolen, nagging PDF files, the biker gang's Web designer, eBay for dogs, Apple iPokes, user-unfriendly software, and many more silly technological situations.

This book represents over three years of brain straining and pencil breaking in order to grind out one cartoon per week. By now, some of them may seem dated, but at this point so do we. (Interestingly, things have not changed that much after all.) Looking back at the cartoons in this book, it is noted that some of them are really stupid while a couple are quite clever. We'll leave it to the reader to figure out which is which. If one of these frames makes you smile (or even groan), then we have done our job. As of this digital printing we continue to pump out one cartoon a week at ComputorEdge Online.