Fun with Puns

Lisa Slavid ’90 has always doodled—

—as a kid in Montessori school, as a studio art major at Smith—so starting her business, Peadoodles, in 2009 “was basically taking the doodles off the margin,” she says. Ten years later, Peadoodles is a line of more than 1,000 cartoons featuring food, animals and inanimate objects illustrating words and phrases in a punny, upbeat, snark-free way.

Slavid draws the cartoons on a tablet and shares them almost daily via social media: on Pinterest, Instagram, Twitter and, most of all, Facebook, where Peadoodles has almost 10,000 followers from around the world. The cartoons themselves are free; Slavid makes money by licensing them for publication and by creating Peadoodles products, such as stickers, magnets, tote bags and onesies.

PEADOODLES
Lisa Slavid ’90

This originally appeared as part of the Smith Women Create column in the Summer 2019 issue of the Smith Alumnae Quarterly. See also “Three Sheets to the Wind” and “Famous Last Words.”