Berkeley Mews' creator calls it a dark humor comic series that exposes the seedy underbelly of everything wholesome and pure. "It takes fairy tales and Disney movies and fond remembrances of childhood and turns them into horrible nightmares - but, like, in a fun way," Ben Zaehringer told Bored Panda.
Ben took some art classes in high school and at the nearby community college, where he learned life-drawing and basic anatomy. "We were also taught to draw cars," he said. "Cars are the bane of every cartoonist, so I'm glad that I was forced to draw them early." Now, he's using these skills to unleash his creative ideas, and people think he's doing a great job. His dark comics has about 200K followers on Instagram and Facebook, and this number is constantly growing.
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"I've been doing these cartoon drawings for as long as I can remember," Ben said. "My mom's cousin, Steve Moore, is a cartoonist, so right away I thought of cartooning as a vocation. My first comics were all in the style of newspaper comic strips, like FoxTrot and Peanuts, only bad instead of good."
"My friend Kevin Garvey and I would make comic books every day after school, by folding two sheets of paper together and then filling them in with funny comics. Mine were mainly parodies of Pokemon and Dragon Ball Z, and Kevin's were these epic, super-funny space operas. When we were done, we'd show them to each other and to our friends. This was the best comics education I ever got. If you are an aspiring cartoonist, make a friend who draws comics (or make your friends draw comics)."
The creator of the webcomics said that disappointment is the main theme in Berkeley Mews. "When I'm writing I ask myself, 'How can something fun be made disappointing?' Recurring motifs include: God, Santa, love, death, childhood, and 90s pop culture references. Life moves fast, so I try to only riff on things that are timeless, like Disney movies that get remade every ten years."
Should have made it battery operated, fuel operated or Solar powered.
Hmm, Problem is fuel tanks can be compromised and imagine getting stuck in a 20 year long rain storm...
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Hope they watched some Gilligan's Island and found out how the Professor made electricity...
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Oh damn, that could be a brilliant concept for a novel. The consequences... Human minds would explode if the truth all along was that we don't have a creator or a evolutionary line. We just popped into being due to a never ending time-loop. The real Adam and Eve were time travellers. Still begs the question whether they had dozens of children who interbred with each other, was there alien interbreeding or did their kids go crazy and start mating with any other available humaniods. (according to a quick google, the only mammals around during the Jurassic era were small, animals sort of like tree shrews.)This could be a very interesting idea to explore.
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what if every conspiracy theorist and prophet throught the ages are just time travellers that got stuck in the past? and to not disturb the space time continuom they speak vaguely?
wouldnt stop me.. i can make 120v at 60hz within 10 years starting all over.
How was the dinosaur-end machine working to get them there in the first place, then? Sorry. Don't wanna be 'that guy,' but I guess I am.
Hope they watched some Gilligan's Island and found out how the Professor made electricity...
Whats dark about this? I went to speech therapy for years as a kid and found the whole experience enjoyable. Its the only reason i speak without my horrible speech impediment I had
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Ben said, "We were also taught to draw cars. Cars are the bane of every cartoonist, so I'm glad that I was forced to draw them early." I'm not an artist or cartoonist. Why are cars the bane of every cartoonist?
Top Ten Bored Panda Items. These are so good. It's all in the context.
Someone missed the upvote button- so I fixed it :)
Load More Replies... Ben said, "We were also taught to draw cars. Cars are the bane of every cartoonist, so I'm glad that I was forced to draw them early." I'm not an artist or cartoonist. Why are cars the bane of every cartoonist?
Top Ten Bored Panda Items. These are so good. It's all in the context.
