Holy Cow, Geoman! It’s Another Caching Comic

Some use a notebook to record their geocaching adventures; others a smartphone or GPSr; Dan White, howevers, prefers the medium of comic strip.

Our villian: The Geoker

Three years ago, the British cacher began drawing on his hobby to create popular strip Geotrackers. He’s joined on those 2-D trails by his uncle – the person who introduced him to caching and suggested the comic – and more latterly colourful characters such as Geoman, the Geoker, Cache Boy, First To Find Girl and his Geo Treck alter-ego Dan T White, captain of the USS Enterprise.

Dan White

White (GC handle: Rightfootdan) says it was his uncle who first found out about geocaching and asked him along one weekend. “We liked it so much that we kept going.”

Unsurprisingly, then, his two main characters Dan and Steve are “very loosely based” on White and his relative. “Also most of the strips come from actual geocaching adventures we have in real life. I just exaggerate them a little.”

The 24-year-old from Kent, just outside London, posted his first Geotrackers strip on November 9th, 2009 after mulling over his uncle’s idea “for a few weeks before that”.

A new strip appears on his Geotrackers website most Mondays and Thursdays, with each four-panel story taking White about three hours “from start to finish”. “If it’s a full-page Geoman strip then that could take me up to six hours.”

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