The Cartoon Chronicles of Sandwich Bag Dad

It started out as a simple shape carved into his daughter’s sandwich to make her smile at school lunchtime. Today, it has evolved into a collection of thousands of sandwich bag cartoons, a social media following spanning the globe, and a dedicated exhibition at Australia’s National Cartoon Gallery.

Since 2012, Dave Blumenthal (a.k.a. Sandwich Bag Dad) has been combining his love of art and wordplay. Every day, he draws custom cartoons on the lunch bags of his three daughters to keep them amused and to add some fun to their school day. Amusing, beautifully detailed, and whimsical, Dave's art has become a joyous visual essay of his kids’ school lunch journeys and continues to delight a growing, worldwide community of dad joke aficionados f.

The Cartoon Chronicles of Sandwich Bag Dad is a wonderful collection of Dave’s most popular and endearing lunch bag drawings. Featuring everything from bees riding motorcycles (“Born to bee wild”) to coffee cups doing Pilates (“pi-lattes”), this book is witty, pun-filled and 100% ‘dad jokey’. The accompanying sandwiches are, however, sold separately!