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Criminal Record Check — A Comic by Dakota McFadzean

Criminal Record Check — A Comic by Dakota McFadzean

Panel 1: Hiring manager: Your resume is very impressive you might be just what we're looking for... Panel 2: Hiring manager: Would you be willing to get a criminal record check? Panel 3: (Interviewee, in burglar attire.) Panel 4: (Interviewee, sweating.)

About the Author

Dakota McFadzean is a Canadian cartoonist whose work has appeared in Mad Magazine and The Best American Comics, and on Funny or Die. His first book, Other Stories and the Horse you Rode in On, was published by Conundrum Press in 2013. From 2010 to 2016, he drew a daily comic strip called The Dailies, three years of which were collected in his second book, Don’t Get Eaten by Anything (Conundrum, 2015). He also co-edits a comics and art anthology called Irene with American cartoonists Andy Warner and d.w. McFadzean currently lives in Toronto, where he works as a storyboard artist for DreamWorks on Home: Adventures with Tip & Oh.

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