Appearing in the broadsheet Manila Bulletin, the strip revolves around its title character, a young boy, and his family and household.

The strip later moved to Times Journal, where it remained until January 1986, when Young was fired after spoofing a radio campaign advertisement for then President Ferdinand Marcos.

The humor of the strip mostly depends on slapstick, visual gags and juxtaposition of familiar images, either resulted by a mishap or as part of several characters' plans.

Jokes often revolve on the physical attributes of the characters, such as Dom's chin size, Day's weight problem or Jordan's height.

Tonton Young's younger brother Alex used the same light-hearted brand of humour in his own comic strip, Pro Kids.