Strap in for some top-tier humor by a comic artist, Madeline Horwath. You might recognize her work from publications in The New Yorker, The Chicago Reader, The LA Times, Seattle Stranger, and other venues.
Madeline's comics are definitely on the edgier side. However, this is how the artist described the art style herself: "My cartoons are single panel for the New Yorker as well as the occasional multi-panel comic. It’s hard for me to say I have a specific style. Whatever comes from me is the style, and I cannot control it."
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Matryoshka empty nest syndrome: once the little ones leave you feel empty inside 😥
honestly this could just be talking about how cannibalism makes you still depressed
this may be me...i feel like something's missing in that empty void and i fill that void with as many people as i can (befriending) but in the end, i'm still feel empty except when only some are around me.
Bored Panda reached out to Madeline, who shared a bit about herself.
"I am an American-born cartoonist, currently living in London as a graduate student at The Royal College of Art. My hobbies include nonfiction books, nature walks, and visiting historical sites,” wrote Madeline.
If my cat was running the place, they would only serve seafood. And, for some reason, Cheese-Its.
Only a *soft* rule 34 here... other body parts are possible
Load More Replies...He has a twin brother - horse lower body and multiple snakes at the top
We were curious about Madeline’s creative process and how she generates ideas for new comics. The artist shared: “The best way I think about it is making connections between seemingly unrelated topics. Every topic has a metaphorical clasp and if you can create some sort of link in the clasps, you have a joke. So that’s a great lesson to humor, and making connections.”
YOU WILL BE RELAXED AND I WILL PUT MY HANDS ON YOUR BODY
Load More Replies...I'm all about it. A lovers back rub is cool but there's nothing like a good firm massage from a trained professional. It's enough to make you melt into a puddle of satisfaction. Its no different from a pedicure and it'll have you feeling like a million bucks. Heaven.
Yup. The person I use is a man, but he gives the most amazing deep tissue massages. It is entirely professional. It doesn't feel creepy to me at all. And I always feel so much better after.
Load More Replies...However, I do think it keeps it professional. Like, they're not judging your body, noises, or involuntary movements that you would be more self-conscious of if you knew the person. (I know logically they shouldn't care either, but you know YOU would) I work as a medical assistant in a plastic surgeon's office, it's comforting to know how many other women have the same insecurities I do-- it's made me less insecure of myself and I hope theirs, too. 🤗
Hi, I was given a Massage at a Spa as a present from my Daughter. I have small fatty lumps in my body called Lipomas, the Masseuse asked about them and I told her what they were. She then started questioning me about calorific intake (I am not particularly overweight) I felt very uncomfortable with that and felt rather irritated. That was several years ago, I have wanted to have a massage since then. I felt very judged indeed.
Load More Replies...I'm good with the house cat.
Load More Replies...I have never enjoyed a professional massage. I’m glad I’m not the only one. I used to do graphic design for a spa and got one in trade. I wished I’d gotten paid instead. My ex husband suggested I get one before a job interview, I told the licensed masseuse he was hurting me, he said I’d thank him the next day, nope, I was more sore than ever. After two bad experiences and one neutral one, I see no reason to try again.
Massages are amazing with the right masseuse. There is nothing like a good deep tissue massage for relieving the toll of stress on your body.
I never understood that, professional or not, why should it make me happy when a stranger pets me?
Madeline’s story of becoming a successful cartoonist involved various odd jobs. The artist explained how all of those experiences influenced the content of her comics.
“Those many odd jobs involved meeting and working with a lot of various people with different experiences. I know comedy seems like it’s about being misanthropic but I have found the opposite to be true. In the two years I lived in Tucson working at a movie theater, I made no art but the art I make is because of that experience.”
To expensive and not covered by my insurance. I will take your biggest rent-a-nuke to hold the world ransom..
Load More Replies...I remember someone said, "It's not what you're eating,but what's eating you"...
My BF tends to his car as much as (if not more than) I tend to my garden, and the car is in a much better state than the plants
We also asked Madeline to tell us what was the most challenging aspect of breaking into the industry of comics. She replied: “The social aspect. You can work your way up by being that trope of the isolated artist, but that’s an obstacle. I had to put myself out there to get my work noticed by The New Yorker.”
Mothman Bar Mitzvah, spooky, scary - boy becoming man, man becoming moth
Madeline’s comics might make it seem that the artist is truly a character, but as she wrote herself: “I promise, I’m nice. My work seems weird, but I’m a sweetie!”
And lastly, Madeline added: “Have a life outside your art, embrace the non-art hobbies. It all seeps through. The experiences and interests you have outside of art will affect what you make.”
I totally get it. Back when the me-too stuff was going on, it seemed every other day another beloved famous person was being outed as being an awful person. So I get her relief when this was just tax evasion. That's 1000000000000% better than finding out they were a sexual abuser.
Except for Rolf Harris, the Jimmy guy, and Bill Cosby. They WERE all perverts.
Load More Replies...I mean, totally understandable. Pretty sure if there are aliens, they are actively avoiding earth at this point.
Cartoons can be enriching. And informative. I learned a lot about Acme products from the Road Runner.
Kids love to play outside, is just that now a days, there isn't a good outside to go to, and if there is, chances are their parents won't let them go because the parents need to supervise so their kid isn't stolen but prioritize work instead. It leaves kids stuck inside lacking proper enrichment. My little sister lives to be outside whenever she can but it's hard when both adults need to work.
We didn't even own a tv til I was 12 in 1964. I missed out on Ricky Nelson, Mr GreenJeans and the puppet lady with Lamb Chop. At work throughout my life people would talk about things I had no idea about. Once a female co-worker said to me "you're so weird" because I said I had a tv but preferred to read to quiet classical music instead of watch tv. Well, I guess I am then! Cuz I'm now 71 and still prefer music and a good book to tv every day of the week.
playing teaches kids about the world and themselves. They also learn skills they need for study, work and relationships, such as confidence.
May as well go play with your balls and hoops until some genius invents an international free-for-all informational database, electronic message switchboard service, and virtual multiplayer ping pong 😝
"Na na na na, hey hey, (reeuurrrrrrrrr)... goodbye!" Notice the label on the prisoner's shirt, "Inmate J. Gacy," as in John Wayne Gacy, serial killer executed by lethal injection in 1994. Fun fact: at the time of his execution pro-capital punishment demonstrators chanted the above song from outside.
wait i dont understand— [but im a neurodivergent also sorry—]
Maybe he'll get better. You know, like the "newt" in Monty Python and the Holy Grail
It's reference to a novella written by Franz Kafka, called The Metamorphosis. It's about a guy, who randomly turns into a big bug one morning :)
Load More Replies...At what point does an informed explanation become 'jargon'? Possibly, when one doesn't understand it? Just wondering ...
When you are using words that aren't in common usage. I could say I placed the modak 900x600 on hydrated gypsum and silica bed laid on a calibrated calcium carbonate substrate. Or I could just say I laid a paving slab on mortar.
Load More Replies...whatsamatta... never seen turtle tits before??
Load More Replies...So "tits" is fine, Panda? Rilly?? But we get saved from the evils of "d**k"?
I just last week heard about a woman who had been married 30 years, when her husband told her he was gay.
Right, I suppose the bits of broken teeth add to the crunchiness.
Load More Replies...Hahaha reminds me of that part in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Vogon Poetry
"That Narcissus / should get a Missus / met rejection / upon reflection.
"Hi, reader from Mimas. Sorry for the interruption, but Wiki really needs your help. All we ask is that you stare away from your reflection for a mikrosecond and donate 7 cornucopias..."
Lol ok this is amusing to a certain folk if they can access a bit of humor
I have been picking the skin off my lips since 95 don't know how to stop
He wasn't comfortable in his own skin. And he's still not comfortable without. 🤷♂️
so , the more weirdy i speak, the closer death to me? that's a sign...
I think the attempted joke maybe was that Potter is anti-semitic? But it fell fairly flat.
Load More Replies...It is possible for a cartoon to just be a cartoon. I didnt pick up anti-semitism, I just picked up that it was telling her she was a goblin. Not everything is about race and religion. Incidentally, not all semites are Jewish. There are plenty of Arabic semites too.
The author J.K. Rowling is anti-Semitic and the bankers are based off of stereotypes for Jewish people! I loved the comic because it's making fun of Rowling's b******t
Load More Replies...For those of you that need context, it's making fun of jkr for her obvious antisemitism in her novels. The comic itself isn't making an anti-semitic joke.
A bunch of dying plants you paid someone to kill for me, how lovely.
I thought I was the only one who didn't like getting cut flowers. They are a freaking part-time job. Ugh.
This is so sad, because I suppose it alludes to the fact that a goldfish won't live long or well in such a small aquarium.
A well-taken care of gold fish can live more than two decades. But kids overfeeding them can be a deathsentence.
A little trauma goes a long way. And it builds character. I dunno WHAT character though, prolly something with a silly pronoun 😂
I'm assuming this is for the US, and in my experience of living here my whole life, restaurants rarely have people pay at the register. it's pretty much always a little folder that you have to put your card in and they take it away and then give it back after the bill is paid
Load More Replies...Funny thing, "Conquest" is never allowed to be around if Pestilence shows up
You can't please everyone - If you could walk over water there would be at least one idiot that wonders if you're too stupid to swim
Careful there - at least one religion believes walking on water is divine
Load More Replies...The first time going to IKEA together is probably the most important stress test in a relationship
The putting stuff together can easily end in a breakup.
Load More Replies...Round of applause for the BP censors for totally NOT making this in any way unreadable.
What is so wrong about the word 'watch'? Seriously, help me understand this idiocy!
Just so everyone knows, I'm also Jewish, so I think I can decide what I'm offended by
Just so everyone knows, I'm also Jewish, so I think I can decide what I'm offended by
