Webcomics and... Fatherhood?

I received a question earlier this week that seemed somewhat appropriate with Father's Day approaching this weekend, so I wanted to take an opportunity to go into the subject in greater detail. Here was the question:

Is it doable for the father of a newborn to keep cartooning at night (3 strips a week) if he has a day job? (Wife's due any day now.) And do you think that temporarily updating less frequently (less than 3/week) will hurt a comic's readership long-term?

Fatherhood and webcomics. That got me reminiscing.

It was about eight years ago, and my wife was pregnant with our first baby...

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