'Reality Check'.
Dave Whamond was born in Edmonton, Alberta and grew up in the small northern Canadian town of Whitecourt. He attended the Alberta College of Art, where he studied visual communications. Whamond freelanced at The Calgary Herald as an editorial cartoonist while still in college. He stayed with the Herald for five years before devoting himself full-time to freelance illustration for magazines. Whamond's illustrations have been published in Sports Illustrated and National Geographic World, among others. He also illustrates a monthly feature for Sesame Street magazine. He is the creator of 'Reality Check', a single panel cartoon, with an occasional sequential strip on Sundays. It is distributed by Universal Uclick.