Life doesn’t come with an instruction manual, so like everyone else, I am just out here making it up as I go. I create relatable comics about my life as a 30-something bear. Whether it’s me being tired of being an adult, or spilling food on my pants, we have all been there.
Sharing my comics is my way of connecting with others out there who have also been left unsupervised for too long.
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Isn't communication what texting is for? I mean really, who calls any more?
I just click ignore. If I really don't want to talk to them, I'll answer and hang up immediately. "Sorry, service here sucks. Must've dropped the call"
One of my biggest influences on my style was growing up with the cartoons of the ’90s. Everything I watched seemed to have animals as the main characters. Whether it was the Ninja Turtles or the animated Disney movie Robin Hood. I was all about it as a kid, and am still all about it now as an adult.
In case you are wondering, the actual process of making the comic takes me a couple of hours. Getting the wording right is the hardest part for me. I often try out different variations, and will often change something last minute before I post the comic.
Every single time lol. If I'm feeling froggy, I'll use them as ccastings and dance for a minute lol
This is my aunt. You know the episode of Spongebob where Patrick yells "I can't hear you! It's too dark!"? We were telling her about that scene one day, but instead of laughing she just went "well I understand that" WE. COULD. NOT. BREATHE.
It actually makes sense, it's not actually about your eyesight it's about your attention, your brain prioritizes which senses it devotes the most attention to. Loud noises can actually cause your brain to devote less processing power to your visual input. So you can see, but you don't react as quickly to visual stimulus.
My husband feels it needs to be turned off, even when I am the one driving. Keep your hands off my music!!!!
Heck yeah! I have always played my rock and role loudly in my cars! If my music is turned down or off by any passenger, when I am driving....oh there going to hear my mouth running very loudly!😉😳🤯😂😂😂
Load More Replies...Most of my ideas come directly from things that are happening in my life. The rest of the ideas tend to come when watching TV or scrolling through social media. If something sparks me as being relatable, I jot down the idea to see if I can’t make it into a comic later.
I have felt burnt out several times over the years when doing creative work. This usually happens when I am working on something I am not passionate about or have taken on trying to do too much. I thankfully haven’t had to deal with any burnout yet with my comic.
I have a recurring dream where I forgot I signed up for a particular college class and it's now like 2/3 of the way through the semester and I haven't been to any of the classes or done any of the assignments or tests.
I'm 40+ and still have dreams I can't find my next class! I still have dreams that I have screwed up a job that I did 20 years ago. One that I never screwed up and actually did very well at.
I finally stopped dreaming graduation exams at... 34. Prior to that if i was stressed my goto nightmares would have been either going to final school exams unprepared are having a university exam session unprepared. That s**t traumatizes people! Thankfully, I am now dreaming that i get fired. At least before i KNEW it was a dream, now I wake up with possibility of my dream coming true :S
Just goes to show how utterly traumatizing school can be. I’m over 60 & still have the dreams-pounding heart, sweaty, short of breath!
I haven't been able to work for over 15 years. I still dream about mixing up my shifts and missing work.
If there's one box, one bag, one cellophane, it's one serving. One box overrides the individually wrapped cakes or cookies. They're only individually wrapped to prevent drying out.
It would be an interesting experiment to spend 1 month following “1 person” serving size Hungry but interesting!
I have gotten a lot of positive responses when people see my comics. They often tell me how cute the bear is and then they will tell me which comic or comics they related to the most. I am often surprised as to the comics people choose as their favorites.
As soon as I came up with the idea for my comic, I knew I would share it on social media. The whole concept of the comic is about being relatable, and there is no way to know if I am being relatable to others if no one else is seeing it.
If you continue to drink more, eventually your body will get used to it after all the retained fluid is flushed out.
OMGGGGGG One day my mom and I got these like REALLY big water bottles. and I drank the whole thing. Then every like half hour I had to use the bathroom. I was just like BROOOO
I've been told to stay hydrated on my walk home in the heat, but there are never any potty stops.
My favorite part of creating my comic is the inking process. At this stage, everything has been mostly worked out in a way I like and I am able to draw without doing much if any thinking. I often listen to music or podcasts while I work, but during this phase, everything goes away and I am in my happy place.
Yes, that's me. About 15 yrs ago I lived on the top floor of a rwo story apartment building, steps up were outside, no elevator. It was just me and my daughter, but in spite of this, when we shopped, we brought home a ton load of groceries. Carrying those heavy bags up the stairs was the bane of my existence. I hated going up and down multiple times. I had a few of those heavy plastic circular clips that you hooked all your groceries onto and then had the fun of dragging upstairs. It was very hard and hurt my hands, but by gosh and by golly, I only made one or two trips with the help of my daughter who would carry some of the lighter ones. I live in a no steps ever universe now, and during the summer months it stays pretty cool on the bottom floor. That top floor apartment was un-"bearably" sweltering in the summer, and I live in rainy Western Washington State.
Why make two trips that require less effort, each, when you can struggle and lose feeling in your fingers with one trip?!
It's fun trying to load the week's worth of groceries on my walker to bring into the house. I'm getting better at bending, though. 🤭
Omg this is soooo me !! The worst was slogging groceries up the stairs to my clan mother & father's 5 story walk up apt in Brooklyn!!!
My partner always tells me I "go fast" lol. She doesn't see how much I carry at one time.
Fun game! Count your steps, car to house to kitchen counter. Repeat till finished. Figure out how many fractions of a mile. You’ll be amazed. Exhausted & sweaty but amazed!
My journey as a digital artist started with me trying to do a little bit of everything. Photography, illustration, typography, graphic design, and even making videos. I knew I wanted to create but wasn’t sure exactly what to make so I made it all. Slowly, I was able to figure out what I really loved the most was drawing and telling stories, and comics was the perfect solution.
Don’t even get me started now- wish I could’ve said something else.
Load More Replies...The French have a term for this. I believe it’s ‘l’esprit de l’escalier’ meaning ‘the wisdom of the staircase’ and ALL the wit you get as you walk away!! We need a term for this in English!
Literally every single interaction I have 🤦♀️. Just one of the many reasons I've withdrawn and isolated myself. The never-ending exhausting life of an overthinker 😞🤷♀️
But I'll gladly take back those downsides of being a kid and have relatively no worries in life. Adult life and responsibilities suck!
Load More Replies...I mean I turned 18 yesterday, I never wanted to be an adult and I still don't, so this is gonna be fun...🥲
Not me, I'm too ugly. I won't even look in the mirror to brush my hair.
CAN TOTALLY RELATE TO THIS, I DO THIS ALMOST THE WHOLE TIME ON VIDEO CALLS
Haha me when bf tells me he bought Chinese and I have to wait for ever.😂
Totally feel that, you'll know the road so well that it'll end up feeling like second nature for the trip to feel quick.
Autopilot...I once drove from Georgia to Virginia, completely forgetting to stop in North Carolina. That turnaround sucked
By me it's always Monday. Except, of course, we have an important test which we have to study for a lot. Then suddenly it's the day before the test🙄
We have been trying to reach you about your cars extended warranty
Me when HR says this... or my family... or friends. With age comes the wisdom that 'talks' are Rarely good.
Yup. My wife and mother are both terrible for this. And they both know I have severe anxiety. Heck, my mom did this once and gave me a panic attack at work so bad I couldn't stand and I had pinhole tunnel vision. What did she want to talk about? That my daughter finally said all her ABCs. At 2. Which is cool and all, but not a "we need to talk" topic.
The bear is my daughter, the moose is my wife and I'm the blue background
I always get the big bucket and at least half is gone by the time the previews are over.
Thats why i never buy snack before go to cinema. It's expensive after all
oh my goodness. you are the master of self control!
Load More Replies...me every single f*****g day during school and home. send help because i have a research presentation thats due probably in 2 weeks
Load More Replies...The fourth panel is labeled the “Next Day” and be thankful that it is missing. 🥴😵💫🤢🤮
That's why I've always liked pot. It still helps and doesn't do vicious things to me the next day.
Load More Replies...I don't like alcohol. Some days I say "it's days like this that make me wish I liked drinking"
Oh good. Someone else who doesn't like it. I often feel like I'm the only one.
Load More Replies...me when im already there as soon as it says that: wha- oh yeah im in a cop car (for speeding at super sonic speed)
Load More Replies...Fun fact: Google adds 10% to the time so you think you look good when you beat the estimated time.
Haha! Going to be me tomorrow, waking up at 6:00 . If I’m unlucky 5:00. (AM)
I've had a book series like this. Read through a trilogy only to find the ending was horrendous. Can't remember the name of it but it was about a guy born without magic living in a world full of it and he had to fake his way through or he'd be imprisoned or killed because of a prophecy. Not going to spoil the ending, but it was awful.
Could that series be The Darksword Trilogy by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman?
Load More Replies...I read a book that was really really good and it was all coming to the climax and you were wondering how the main character was going to get out of the situation and theeeen, it was all just a vision and literally none of it actually happened. There were two more books in the series but I just couldn't bring myself to read more than that first book because of how incredibly unsatisfied I was with the ending
I hate when a good book has a stupid ending. The author ran out of steam?
Friend of mine caught a fly once... BEHIND HIS BACK. Right up there with the time I caught a banana someone threw at me while covering my eyes in panic that someone had thrown something at me.
Load More Replies...I hate every single picture of me that has ever been taken. And I do NOT take selfies. EVER.
Also "actually I looked pretty good as a kid, I wish I hadn't hated myself so much then"
For me I feel quite the opposite. As i got older i learned what makes a photo look good to people, as well as what features of mine people tend to see the most appeal in.
My brain is in a fire right now. That's why BP help so much to calm it
My brain stopped working an hour into my day. And it's only Thursday....
Those oak barrels are inside out. You're supposed to turn them back again after they go through the wash.
I'm there with you. If I don't go anywhere, there are times I will realize that I didn't look at myself all day...
Load More Replies...That's why I like going to the beach in the evenings and/or in September.
It'll probably still work, Research has shown that the placebo effect still works even when you know you're taking a placebo (effect is weaker though).
Wait there is a warning for that? My parents just stick it in there lol
I only hold baby animals. No, I would NOT like to hold your baby human, go away
Why is there a door handle on the push side????? Is there a push plate on the pull side?
So you can pull from the outside when you're locking the door
Load More Replies...I had to lead a training session yesterday and most of it went "this is how you are supposed to do it" closely followed by "this is the way we actually do it because it reduces workload and improves workflow"
If you turn on the subtitles, it counts as reading. Just a picture book, obviously.
Plot twist: It's original BattleToads, if so that's actually impressive
it has the same face as the "face getting stuck" a few posts above
Indeed, a jacket round the waist is perfect for all kinds of stains until you can change!
nah i bike to school even tho i literally have a sister that can drive me
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