Dandy & Company

Dandy and Company is a webcomic about the slightly skewed misadventures of a Dog and his boy. Dandy and Company blends the wacky laughs and energy of Looney Tunes cartoons and the epic adventures of Duck Tales with the everyday sensibilities of Charles Schulz's Peanuts to create a unique and hilarious comic strip that has been entertaining readers since it first premiered online in October of 2001. New Strips appear every Monday!

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Get it ALL in print! Every DANDY & COMPANY strip and comic from 1993 to 2018 in THREE amazing print collections!

DOGPILE: The Complete Dandy & Company Compendium Vol. 1

530 pages of D&C Laughs and Adventure with over 10 years of comics and strips! Volume 1 contains every comic story and strip from the premier as comic strips created while Dee Fish attended the Joe Kubert School of Cartoon and Graphic Art in 1994 through to the Webcomic up to 2003! The Ultimate Collection of Dandy & Company!

DOGPILE: The Complete Dandy & Company Compendium Vol. 2

504 pages of D&C Laughs and Adventure with over 10 years of comics and strips! Volume 2 contains all of the online comic strips from 2004 until the end of the webcomic’s original online run in 2014, leading to the NEWEST comics found on this site! The Ultimate Collection of Dandy & Company continues!

Dandy & Company: It’s A Dog Eat Dog World

The long running webcomic, DANDY & COMPANY, is BACK and better then ever! Now collected in ONE hilarious volume is all the great comic strips from the 2014 relaunch of the web sensation until 2018! Join Dandy Q. Dog, his naive “owner” Bernard and all their friends as they navigate the ins and outs of snowball fights, school plays and murderous cats! All the laughs and adventure in one place! 172 Pages GET IT ALL TODAY!!!

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Wow. So, this is it. This is the FINAL “Dandy & Company” webcomic. This strip first premiered online on October 11th, 2001 and has been running on and off for 17 years. The continuity of the strip, which comes to its end today began back in 1994 when I was a student at the Joe Kubert School, drawing dozens of strips and short stories that would lead to the webcomic. Before that, these characters began their lives when I was just 8 and drew their first comic strip on a tan manila envelope in Grade School. That was 36 years ago. And now it’s over. It was time, unfortunately. As a creator, my attention was split among different projects and concepts that deserved their own chance to shine and I didn’t want this strip to simply fade away as had happened before with the numerous false endings. I wanted to do it JUSTICE. And I hope I did.  I’d like to say thank you to all of you who stuck with me over the years, through the hiatuses and behind the scenes drama that often made it hard to continue.  Not too long ago, I thought that I’d be drawing this strip and these charactered until the day I died. And who knows what the future truly holds, but for now it’s time for me to move on. My semi-autobiographical webcomic, Finding Dee, will continue and hopefully, continue to find new readers and maybe inspire folks.  But Dandy & Company will always have a MASSIVE place in my heart. Dandy is the first character I ever created and my favorite “son”.  Thanks. :)

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Happy Birthday to me. It’s weird to be wrapping up a comic I’ve been drawing in one form or another since I was 8, but here we are. Next week will be the FINAL Dandy & Company comic strip. I hope you’ve been enjoying this last adventure. :)

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This will, of course, be explained fully next week. That said, we are within spitting distance of the end. There are only about 4 strips left to go and the “Dandy & Company” will be in the rearview. This is really hard for me, I’ll have you know. lol

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Sometimes, the most epic disasters really do have somewhat straightforward solutions.

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Never in all of history has a manila file folder had this much plot importance, but I wanted to make this final story as meta as possible and really lean on the strips actual history.

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I enjoy getting to play around and do big action strips from time to time.

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We’re in the final battle for real now as they’ve finally caught up with Evil Dandy. The first Dandy” comic I ever drew really was drawn on a manila file folder in 1982 that I still have to this day.

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One thing that hasn’t changed over the years is that Mr. Fuzzy and Snuffles are still not overly friendly with each other. But they work fairly well together and It’s a bit funnier that way. 

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In the upper right hand corner is a LOOSE recreation of my childhood home, 257 Ontario Ave. in Massapequa. It looks NOTHING like that now and was renovated into a 2 story house after my family moved out in 87 or 88. I’ve not been back in YEARS to the old town, but Google Earth let’s me virtually “walk” the streets from time to time.

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And for the final pit-stop in the middle of this adventure, the team ends up in my other webcomic, the semi-autobiographical “FINDING DEE”. It was also a good opportunity to literally show the scope of the story by having myself appear and not recognize these characters at all, reinforcing the damage that was done by Evil Dandy. 

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Hey kids, COLOR! This is the world of my newest comic, MARJORIE OF THE WEIRDLINGS which can currently be found exclusively on my PATREON page. However, while it’s fun to draw these different characters interacting, there IS a plot specific reason for all of these gratuitous cameos that will become clear in the next strip.

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Longtime fans of my work will recognize this as the world of my graphic novel series, The Wellkeeper. If you DON’T recognize the terrible THRALL and the overly rendered details, you owe it to yourself to check it out. SHAMELESS PLUG! There will be more such plugs!

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You’d think a strip with only ONE big panel would be easier to draw and take less time, but no. This strip took as long as any other one in this story.  GO fig.

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Okay, so the exposition is over and we can really jump back into the adventure. Some of you suspected that Snuffles’ armored form from a few strips ago might be Mr. Fuzzy somehow, and now you can see that you weren’t entirely WRONG.  Longtime readers know that Mr. Fuzzy exists both in the present AND in the future with Mistake. Some will also remember that he does NOT like Snuffles due to Snuffles’ past misdeeds. THAT has not changed, mostly because I like writing Mr Fuzzy as being irritable and sarcastic. lol

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So, when I restarted this comic back in 2014, I gave myself a couple of “rules” to follow. One rule was not mentioning certain older villains of plot points such as Evil Dandy. And this was largely because I wanted the strip to be as accessible to NEW readers as possible, so I skirted around such backstories. The second rule was to EXTREMELY limit breaking the fourth wall, which is to say limit how frequently the characters acknowledge that they KNOW they are in a comic strip.  Since Evil Dandy can’t EXIST as a character without acknowledging that this is a comic strip, those rules are OBVIOUSLY out the window here and for the remainder of the series. 

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Hopefully, these strips that are heavy on exposition and explanation aren't too dull. It's always a risk with these types of stories and can slow things way down even though they are quite necessary. That said, as a writer I enjoy writing back and forth dialogue see strips like this are fun for ME on a whole different level.