This is one of the most utterly bizarre things I've ever read. Quinton is younger than me, and yet even when I was a little kid I remember there being extremely cheap and widely available book collections of Garfield comics. My local library had them and they were sold at Barnes & Noble. My mother really liked Calvin and Hobbes (she even clipped the strip out of the newspaper from the day I was born and kept it), and when I got old enough to read them and she wanted to show me the comics she just bought me one of the compilation books. I cannot fathom the idea of printing out comic strips on paper at the office--how does that even work, by the way? Certainly not photocopying them out of archived newspapers, so was he getting them online? I have a hard time imagining a 30-something finding decades-old comics on the early 2000s internet at work and printing off just a few pages of them to bring home to his son, especially when they were significantly more easy to acquire through other means. And "my dad worked at a place that had a printer"? That was every workplace back then. Hell, probably nearly every home because again, early- to mid-2000s. It's not like Quinton was a kid in 1992.
I call bullshit on this whole story.