25 New Comics Capturing Modern Everyday Life Experiences From Social Injustice To Sweet Moments Of Love
Interview With Artist"Blobby And Friends" is a comic series featuring Blobby, a friendly Blobfish, and a group of other characters like Monkey, Lily, Roly, Ashley, and Punk Kid. While telling their stories, these comics also shine a light on the everyday social problems some people face.
"I don't know if there's one thing that inspired me to start the comics in the way that it exists today. We actually started with something really simple, with funny and cute gags that were more at the surface level. As the account grew, we realized we had an opportunity to use Blobby to speak up about more serious topics," Zack, a member of the team behind the comics, said.
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Amen, Blobby! Sadly, this right has been taken away for many women in the US and other parts of the world. 😔
I think that having an abortion because you got rap-d by a family member or stranger is totally ok, like the Ohio ten yr old who got rap-d by a random 28 year old.
It's a vocal minority and it's becoming a problem for the GOP as it keeps them from swaying the left and Independents.
Load More Replies...Balancing serious social issues with humor in comics is no easy task. It's like walking a tightrope, trying not to fall on either side. That's why we were curious to know how "Blobby And Friends" manages to talk about important topics and still keeps the comics fun and enjoyable. Zack, the creator, shared that finding the balance is an ongoing journey, much like real life. "I want to entertain our readers to a degree, but sometimes when an issue is particularly serious it demands the spotlight and I try to just leave the funny bits for a different time. Unfortunately, I am not always getting it right. At the very least I've learned that you can't mix a serious cause with a cheap joke."
YES! My friends and I keep telling the teachers we can't focus because the boy's knees are distracting us after one of us got told off for a "revealing" shirt. Their faces, they are always so confused haha
I don't think it's a matter of distraction. It's a matter of being place-appropriate. School is an institution. As I wouldn't go to a funeral, or to a tribunal, or to a job interview in my underpants, I don't go to school dressed like that. It's not the beach, simply. And this goes for both genders OF COURSE.
Exactly, it's school. If you can wear it in public, and it doesn't get in the way of your work, it's fine. It's not a job,. You are there too learn, and being more comfortable helps with attention and learning, so if you want to dress in short shorts, and a tight top, because it's hot outside and you have to walk between classes, go for it. School is not a formal setting. All of your examples possibly are. Dress how you are comfortable, and leave other people alone. How they dress doesn't affect you.
Load More Replies...This is too close for comfort. Right now I'm on a laptop with the tv going and my phone beside me, with an additional book resting against my pillow.
I don't get this personally. How can you enjoy anything if you can't focus on anything? Multitasking has been disproven, the brain just switched rapidly meaning you'll miss bits of either the TV, the game, or what's on your phone. Could someone please explain why this is enjoyable?
That's often not the point, enjoyment. It's distraction, as evidenced in this comic. It lets you not have to worry, or feel unpleasant emotions constantly. A coping strategy like many others.c
Load More Replies...Behind "Blobby And Friends" lies a dynamic team, each member contributing their unique talents and perspectives to bring the illustrated stories to life. Zack shared that they do have specific roles, but more importantly, for the conversation, they all bring different points of view. "We frequently check in, sharing anecdotes from our lives. Ultimately, a story can originate from various sources: a personal experience, shower thought, or an issue that we feel deeply about."
Seems to be a global problem (for woman)...that males are unable to separate their gonads from their brains...What?!
I wouldn't want her to wear such a short skirt, but not because of that stupidity.
If only every space was that safe to express our weird inner thoughts.
Talking about long-term goals, Zack shared that he definitely wants to focus more on the narrative and interpersonal relationships between the characters. "I've been dying to dive deeper into the lives of Lily and Punk Kid. There's so much to explore there. Hoping that I won't disappoint!"
I was walking down a dark street behind a woman. She started to walk faster so I walked faster. She started running so I started running. She screamed and I screamed. I don’t know what we were running from but I was scared as hell.
its a tough one because if you try to look like your not a predator then it can make you look like one even more sometimes
Yes, I'd like to know how to pass a lady without scaring her too. The more you think about it, every strategy seems creepy.
I just mind my own business and keep walking. I can only control my actions, not everyone else's thoughts and feelings and I'm definitely not going to be anxious just because other people MIGHT feel anxious about my presence...
Load More Replies...For me it is just as bad when there's some young couple walking ahead of me on the walking trail and they always walk extremely slow and give No room for anyone To pass. They see me behind them but don't care my legs are cramping up from trying to walk 0.5 mph
At that point you cheerfully call out 'On your left!' and go powerwalking past on the left (or substitute right, if you'd rather.)
Load More Replies...It's not paranoia though, sadly. Men really do perpetrate (a lot) more violence, especially among strangers, and your "it's not my problem" attitude certainly doesn't help that.
Load More Replies..."From the start, my goal was to create a space where readers felt seen. To add a bit of wholesomeness to people's timelines, especially considering how dark things can get on social media.
It's really important to me to address issues we care about, but I always come back to this: I know people are struggling out there. How can I make things just a bit better in this moment?"
"And Australia doesn't exist either!!" Haha, I'm Australian. I do bloody exist, thanks.
I have come to the conclusion that the reason people say it is a hoax and so willing to follow people like Donald Trump is because they are afraid. They are scared and want everything to be “normal” and will follow anyone who promises it is.
Sticking your head in the (burning and or flooded) sand won't change it. Willful ignorance hurts everybody.
Load More Replies...The reason people are skeptics is because the media now attribute every ecological problem and uncommon weather event/disaster to climate change, and any study that explores any other possible reason besides CO2 is ignored. Most people couldn’t even explain how a simple cloud forms, so they believe anything the media claims is climate change.
Maybe climate change and global warming are just meant to be distractions from darker plans being put into motion.
Sadly, I feel like it is happening more and more. I get these weird Instagram reels of “mommy and daddy bloggers” and it just seems so cringey and exploitative to put your child’s entire life online. If you need to exploit your child for recognition and validation, you really need to do some soul searching.
Load More Replies...There was another post where someone said they wished there was a "your baby looks the same as yesterday" button.
My kids have never been online without their faces covered. Why? Because I respect their consent and they can't give that at their age...
That's how mine were, until they were 12 and I asked them if they were okay
Load More Replies...They should make a movie about this. They could call it "the Truman Show".
Do you want a death in the family? Because that's how you got a death in your family.
Consumer Culture at it's most "developed". Course "developed" Is another word for "destroyed"...
This type of stuff needs to stop. Seriously, come on society. Modern up.
"when your dog pees on the feet of a passerby, you yell at the passerby ?" said by one woman in a bar to another because her boyfriend smiled at her. I’ve never laughed so hard and loud in my life
‘That girl’ is probably more of an innocent victim than this girl tho. The bf is a real piece of work
Why is this so true? Being a 35 year old woman I read this and it makes me sad but I also remember feeling this way when I was younger and dating. Why do we blame the wrong party?
Being in love makes you less intelligent. It's been proven, medically.
unrequited love is so sad :( there are plenty of fish in the sea. im sorry dude
Load More Replies...It's worse when you get rejected in your own dreams ☹️
pretty sure thats not heartstopper, love the series but i think these are the artists ocs
Load More Replies...The movie is sexually anthropomorphizing fish. She's pointing out how ridiculous it is to make female animals into bombshells.
There's toxic chemicals in the water when fish start to have bewbs ( • )( • )
To make sure the audience know that it's a she they gave her "boobs", eyelashes, and long flowing hair while not doing so to the mom.
Load More Replies...Omg this happened to me the other day I thought I had a blister on my lip and the Internet told me I got herpes and if I got it in my eyes I would go blind and then my dad came home and he’s a doctor and he took one look at it and was like nope that’s not a cold sore
As much as I don't really understand why people get so riled up when a popular character's ethnicity is changed, I would very much like to see how it would go if a traditionally black character was suddenly portrayed as white. It seems to me this has to go both ways and it would become less suspicious.
I never care about skin color, but for some reason, hair color matters. IDK why but if a character has blond hair, let them have blond hair. or if they have red or black hair, let them keep their original hair color. Ethnicity changes never really bothered me (unless it changes part of the story)
Load More Replies...People can say what they want, but basically if the pre-existing story has already introduced a character, with enough description to have a mental image, changing that by swapping unexpected ethnicity can be seen as selling out.
Oh boo freaking hoo, if people think that having a person of colour play a mythical being is “selling out” that's pretty sad. These are the same people that screamed and cried and about a gorgeous black actress playing a mythical mermaid character in a movie with a taking fish and Calypso singing crab.
Load More Replies...if the movie (or whatever) is about a historical person like let's say president Lincoln, then it would be weird if he was played by a POC. but if a elf or mermaid isn't white as milk i don't give a s**t as long as the actor/actress is doing a good job! EDIT: also i don't gaf if the FICTIONAL person from a popular book changes colour in different media (like Hermoine... i don't give a flying sh*t how she looks on the covers of the book and in the movies and how she looks in the play as long as the actress is doing a good job! she is fictional! who cares?! for all i care she can be blue with three eyes and 5 arms... and yes i'm a potterhead)
Hermione...as I recall all the books say is girl, frizzy hair, very smart. No race specified. Sounds like a black Hermione fits just fine. Also Pacific Islander and many others.
Load More Replies...I think the only valid point is often stuff like Disney stories are based on fairytales from specific cultures, mainly European/Caucasian so making a character say Hispanic instead of Norwegian is disrespectful to Norwegian culture. Instead why aren't they diving into all the other cultures to give us NEW Disney characters to love? Instead of leftovers made to look culturally diverse, gives a true traditional meal, expand our pallette Disney!
Yep. Making Ariel black is fine by me bc it’s not important to the story that she’s white. However, if you were to make Snow White black, it wouldn’t make a lot of sense 1. Because it’s a German fairy tale and 2. Because she has Snow White skin and black hair in literally every version of the story anywhere. Also this is why I thought Wish was pretty cool, because she was a brand new POC Disney princess!
Load More Replies...i feel like its more complicated than just that. imo, there are some instances where its ok, like if its a reboot of a show. honestly, (and a lot of people agree with this too) i feel like you should take stories from the country its from, and then use people of that race. like for example take a fairytale from south india and use a south indian character for that movie(idk, i'm south indian this is the only example i could think of). i feel like we could make the film industry more diverse that way.
Agree it would be weird to use white characters to portray South Indian, African, Malay, Polynesian etc. historical and mythological characters. Not that it hasn't been done, but it's jarring.
Load More Replies...They're being super racist and ridiculous so it's making fun of them being like "oh you live with you're mum and still drink out of a sippy bottle you big baby"
Load More Replies...I think it depends if people's ethnicity affects how they are. like I'm going to use Percy Jackson as an example. Annabeth being white does not make her who she is as a person. However, Piper being Cherokee is a part of her identity.
I care a little bit more when they change characters they’re adapting from a book because these characters have a description
Yes, but often if you go through the book description, it doesn't actually say race. It says fiery red hair, piercing dark eyes, and such other phrases, and we never actually expect that the character's head should be lit on fire, right? Many dark skinned ethnicities have individuals with red toned hair. And there is dye, or wigs, which actors use all the time.
Load More Replies...when was the last time you were lying in the grass and watched the clouds? i haven't done that in a looong time...
I tried it a couple times as a kid after seeing it portrayed in fiction relatively often. Then I realized that clouds mostly look like clouds, and also lying on grass is awful.
Load More Replies...I'm the blobfish, the "Lily" girl is the perverted zeds who I don't like
My husband and I do this quite often. It's way more fun than it looks. Especially if you smoke a blunt first
pretty sure lesbians know what d1cks look like
Load More Replies...To the haters here with their nasty comments : I'm a pansexual woman in a relationship with someone who is non-binary. So let me explain how it works for you all : NONE OF YOUR EFFING BUSINESS. If you can't cope with it and don't like it just turn your narrow bigoted mind the other way and forget all about it.
I dont even know what pansexual and non-binary means....but its not my effing business.....
Load More Replies...TBH when I first heard of gender reveal parties this is what I thought it was.
So I guess it should be called a sex reveal party now? Since, until the child can at least speak, giving it a gender would be purely speculatory.
There were families in the ice cream parlor I worked at like this. They would compete over who could pay the fastest. It was always done in a very sweet, friendly way though.
a realistic GAY couple!!! for the first time in entertainment history
Load More Replies...It would help though. Maybe not enough, but it would still do something.
TY! What even ARE vests!? Like, my CORE is ALREADY warm! It's my EXTREMITIES that need warmed but if I put on a whole coat my core overheats and and I ARGGHH! I need a reverse vest. Like pants, for the arms, arm pants. 😤
there are these things that are basically two sleeves connected in the back. They are exactly what you are describing. You can find knitting patterns online, and I'm sure that you could find them on Amazon. ( I'm not trying to come off as rude. Just helping out
Load More Replies...So your a frirdson ( I tried to combine all 3 words)
Load More Replies...I'm actually allergic to kiwi. I don't even remember what it tastes like.
I'm also allergic to it! It was my favorite fruit before
Load More Replies...A lot of people don't seem to realize they're allergic to certain citrus because they somehow enjoy the burning, tingling feeling like people who enjoy spicy food. Weird.
I’m Jewish and I love this representation. It’s so small but I love it
i used to want one of these really bad as a kid lol. ah, nostalgia.
My dad kicked my uncles down the stairs. It didn’t work quite right after that
Load More Replies...YASS! Blobby has taste! Ignore the people who think it's popular to hate our birb bebes! Furby Fren for life! 👏😂
Street artist caracature art is a weird concept for me. Paying an artist to point out your physical insecurities
like I'm all for paying artists (I'm an artist too after all!) but I think I'd rather stick a toothpick under my toenail and kick a wall than commission a caricature artist to make me feel even more insecure than I already do
Load More Replies...Just so all pandas know, this IS NOT A RICKROLL, it's a witney houston song that goes with the comic!
Load More Replies...I don't think I've ever thought about eyelashes on myself or anybody else. Why is it a big deal?
That's because in almost every single other species in the animal kingdom it's the male's job to attract a mate... not the other way around. Stoopid humans. 😤😂
Everyone's got a better and a worse. I think the real problem is that we elevate these things that mean so little, and are so impermanent.
Men are actually predisposed to having naturally longer eyelashes because it protected their eyes from the snow in the days of the hunting groups.
Best to go to Texas De Brazil. Hardly fine dining yet the best meat there is !
This is me and expensive wine. It is entirely lost on me so I'd rather save it for those who appreciate it more
That is a real thing, though usually it's for an entire tasting menu, often with wine pairing, and at a Michelin-star restaurant. I don't recommend it for anyone who isn't sincerely thrilled by the whole restaurant "package". It's really so much more than a meal; it's the experience. That's why you should really take your time to read reviews, and research a place like that, unless you have regular disposable income.
Ever been to forget de chow? *disclaimer I probably misspelled it but still!*
I actually did one these meals once. I thought for sure I'd hate it, I'm a big eater, but actually I got full. Usually there are tons of courses, so a few bites of each thing is all you need. It's basically a really fancily presented sample platter where you're forced to take a short break after each thing to enjoy and think about it.
Reminds me of a story my parents tell. They were a very young couple just recently dating, and went to some very fancy place that cost a fortune. One dish was described as 'medallions of venison with quail's eggs' and the venison was completely hidden by the two quail eggs perched on top. About halfway back home after dinner my dad says 'Want to stop at Burger King?' And Mom says 'Oh god, yes, I'm starving!'
Reminds me of an amazing shirt I saw in the wild: "Of course I'm pro gay, I didn't practice this hard to be amateur gay"
So is BoredPanda now censoring d**k and a*s and getting rid of comments now? What in the world is up with this site and all the horrible censorship. If you have to censor a sweet comic that's pretty damn sad, BP....
You’re funny. Reeeeeal funny. You must be fun at parties.
Load More Replies...*sees gay person* *gets offended* *proceeds to call liberals snowflakes*
Load More Replies...So is BoredPanda now censoring d**k and a*s and getting rid of comments now? What in the world is up with this site and all the horrible censorship. If you have to censor a sweet comic that's pretty damn sad, BP....
You’re funny. Reeeeeal funny. You must be fun at parties.
Load More Replies...*sees gay person* *gets offended* *proceeds to call liberals snowflakes*
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