“Blobby And Friends”: 35 Comics That Masterfully Address The Social Injustice Ingrained In Everyday Life
Blobby looks a little weird, but who cares about the outside? They're really cool on the inside and that's what matters. This little creature is trustworthy, supportive, and refuses to put up with BS. No wonder 465k people follow them.
But if you still haven't heard about this adorable mush, we can introduce the two of you. They're a fictional character who stars in their own comic series called Blobby and Friends.
It's a project that focuses not only on wholesome everyday life but important social issues, like homelessness and racism as well. What's even more impressive, the stories also manage to squeeze a chuckle out of readers.
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To learn more about Blobby and Friends, Bored Panda had a chat with Zack, a member of the team behind the comics. "I personally started with toy design and puppets, but was looking for an outlet to let me talk about things I care about," he told us. "To be honest, we didn't expect things to go the way they did and I am full of love and gratitude towards our audience."
Zack describes Blobby as "the magical best friend you always wished you had."
Do whatever the hell you want and just be yourself as long as your not hurting anyone
"[Other folks] who appear in the comics are Lily, their human friend (and I really relate to her character a lot, I'm not sure why), Ashley, who is Lily's crush, and Charlie / Punk Kid who can come off as intimidating but is really the most soft and wholesome character we've ever come up with. That's why Charlie is modeling our underwear," Zack said, laughing.
Quote from the American Psychological Association: "Research has shown that 3-month-old babies prefer faces from certain racial groups, 9-month-olds use race to categorize faces, and 3-year-old children in the U.S. associate some racial groups with negative traits. By age 4, children in the U.S. associate whites with wealth and higher status, and race-based discrimination is already widespread when children start elementary school." Anyone who argues young children can't understand race or shouldn't be taught about race is grossly uninformed. https://www.apa.org/news/press/releases/2020/08/children-notice-race
Many online comics stay away from difficult topics. A little pun here, a corny line there, and that's it. I'm not saying there's anything wrong with this concept. There's certainly an audience for it. I just mean that Blobby and Friends stands out from its competitors. Even though the series looked a lot like that in the beginning, too.
"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 explained.
"Listening to the reactions from our followers also made a huge difference for us. I can speak only for myself but I really feel like I’ve personally grown with this world we've created."
More directly, it's your tax dollars funding architecture to exclude and torment people. Are you really okay with this? If not, reach out to your city planners, city governments, and city parks departments and let them know.
It takes courage and skill to drift away from the classic feel-good vibe and still produce compelling strips. However, Zack and the rest of the team manage to consistently pull it off. And that's because of luck. Rather, dedication to the process. "We always stop to think about what kind of message we're putting out there. Whether people can feel represented or understood or can find joy in our stories," he said.
Bosnia, Kosovo, Serbia, Ireland, West Indies, Jamaica, Poland, Slovakia ... all had migrants and refugees come to the UK and all were treated with equal contempt. When my family first came to England, I was too young to understand, but the most common sign you'd see read 'No Irish, No Blacks, No Dogs' (Some were worse and said dogs welcome). Xenophobia doesn't care about your skin colour, It doesn't care if home was destroyed, it doesn't care if you were asked to come and work on the infrastructure.
"We try to do that without being overly wordy or coming off too flippant about it. And it's not easy! Partly because we have only four panels to work with, but also because we feel a lot of responsibility towards our audience."
"I feel that at the end of the day, we are all very emotionally invested in this," Zack added. "Some people find that surprising but it’s true. We have a lot of love for our characters, and I hope we’re able to bring people together through that."
This! I had someone try to argue with me this week that hard work is all that matters because millionaires who responded to a survey said they made their fortunes through hard work. *facepalm* OF COURSE, they would say that. That doesn't make it true.
Of course all lives matter but using that slogan meant to replace black lives matter isn't right. That is the campaign we are using to help that minority, so we shouldn't belittle it for not helping everyone. There are many campaigns for stop brown hate and women's rights and LGBTQ. This is just the one for black people
So, I'm agreeing with you fyi, and I'm gonna say this, I use all lives matter to say that I don't want to just support one race or gender or whatever, I'm showing that I support everyone, yes I know black people are oppressed by the police, and I believe that should stop, but I also don't think we should just focus on them if you get what I mean
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I love how they changed their mind. It's not "weak" to change your opinion after seeing new information. It's actually pretty cowardly and self-centered to want to be right instead of open-minded.
"Save the Whales" does not mean "f all the other sea creatures". Get over it, "blue lives matter" people who supported the insurrection that killed and maimed dozens of police officers.
Trying to defeat systematic oppression with a slogan. I never know whether to laugh or cry whenever i see it. Is it working...?
As a black person, when I walk past police officers in America, they usually pull their guns. As a black person in America, I got racially abused by white teenagers in my jr high school from 6th to 8th grade. As a black person currently living overeas, I have had people take pictures of me with no consent and touch my very curly hair without my consent. I am sick and tired of ALL the black people being shot for no reason. WE DESERVE JUSTICE. SAY THEIR NAMES. BLM.
This is why I dont act out against people who say ALM because they’re right, but just wrong execution.
Let me nip that fake news in the bud for you. Studies have found that in the U.S., the probability of being Black, UNARMED, and shot by police is about 3.49 times the probability of being white, unarmed, and shot by police. Racism is real. Sadly, unarmed Black folks are regularly shot and killed by American police officers. (More significantly, how many killings by police do you have where you live? If anyone? On this side of the pond, compared to other countries, it's shockingly frequent that civilians are denied their right to a fair trial and are instead killed by a police officer.) Source for stats: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0141854&fbclid=IwAR0V8E-u0FDUL8e3o4vFSe-0VKcsXez8GIHaOy-KHF0RlHnssH-zInd3_0Q
Yes they are. In the U.S., Black men face a 1 in 1,000 risk of being killed (not shot, killed) by a police officer. The risk for white men is 2.5 times that. Both are bad. Black folks have it worse. Source: https://www.prisonpolicy.org/scans/police_mort_open.pdf
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Black people are more likely to be shot by the police, though.
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Spoken by someone who truely does not understand anything about minority issues in the U.S. I suggest having a genuine conversation with black people that were around in the 60's. Diversity and equality hiring is the LEAST we can do to help and bring awareness to the blatant racism that STILL exists. People are often overlooked, not hired, targeted, and otherwise discriminated against just for having the skin color they were born with, can you imagine that happening for you? If you are a white male, definitely not. Should an under qualified black person be hired over a more qualified white person? Absolutely not, that is racist as well. Skin color still influences decisions made today, and THAT is the issue. Diversity hiring is not the right issue to fight against friend, it isn't racist
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Often times, cops assume the black person has a weapon, or is resisting arrest when they are fully compliant and have no weapons.
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If you cannot finish the drink (and have no people around you trust), it may be best to get a fresh one after the restroom break. No drink is worth the however remote possibility of it being spiked.
If you think you're not like other girls, ask yourself where you picked up and internalized misogyny.
Ugh. Tbh, this is still annoying. "Cute couple" is great! When someone tells my partner and I that we have "courage" though, that's weird. It's a definite reminder we stick out.
Psst: It's really cool when you nerd out about something. If you've found anything at all that you're passionate about, talk about it! Life isn't a competition. It's fun to talk to people who are excited about something.
"My nose is so big so I can smell all the BS coming from people like you." Could be an appropriate reply to any stupid comments.
This post is similar to the "courageous" queer post. It's weird to single out your queer friends' relationships as "courageous." Mellow out, y'all.
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I love ever single one of these but... the standard image of a blob fish is actually its corpse. They live in the depths of the ocean where it's very high pressure and when they float to the surface and it's a lower pressure... they kinda... explode...
I agree. I find it ironic that the blob is actually a depressurized deep water fish exploding in pain and being used to represent a wise propaganda laced pet. (I don't disagree with the sentiments but racism and sexism issues only get stronger by making special groups of particular races/gender types rather than just accepting they are ALL human but like different things).
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That blobfish is wise. I mean he got all that knowledge from being drudged up from the depths and suffering extreme tissue damage just to be called the ugliest fish in the ocean
They do make official plushes of him on the official website (as well as the monkey, roly-poly, and water bear), just search "Blobby and Friends merch". I think I may want one too...
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Some of the "compliments" are so aggressive, they are actually quite rude.
This was genuinely wholesome. Fun and informative at the same time. I would love to see more from this artist.
As a lesbian and an LGBTQ activist... These are cute and amazing! They actually remind me of my comics, but so much better
I remember seeing the official merch site the other day (where they have some plush toys of the characters). Now I'm really interested in getting at least one of them.
It's actually kind of sad because although they do look kind of cool, they only look like that after being dragged out of the ocean and suffering lots of tissue damage from being dragged through all of the pressure the ocean had on them. And after they die.
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I know I replied to them all 2 years late but I love coming back to these everyone once and a while, they are so cute
woke garbage, its cringe, its sad , imagine wanting to get run over by a car just to pay off your studentdebt even though its your fault ever wanting to persuade a degree that doesnt mean anything just sad really sad. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l2gJAjQJVSM
honeslty this liberal garbage, I wasted 30 minutes reading these comics i regret it just made lose brain cells
Here's a suicide prevention lifeline : 8002738255
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I love ever single one of these but... the standard image of a blob fish is actually its corpse. They live in the depths of the ocean where it's very high pressure and when they float to the surface and it's a lower pressure... they kinda... explode...
I agree. I find it ironic that the blob is actually a depressurized deep water fish exploding in pain and being used to represent a wise propaganda laced pet. (I don't disagree with the sentiments but racism and sexism issues only get stronger by making special groups of particular races/gender types rather than just accepting they are ALL human but like different things).
Load More Replies... That blobfish is wise. I mean he got all that knowledge from being drudged up from the depths and suffering extreme tissue damage just to be called the ugliest fish in the ocean
They do make official plushes of him on the official website (as well as the monkey, roly-poly, and water bear), just search "Blobby and Friends merch". I think I may want one too...
Load More Replies... Some of the "compliments" are so aggressive, they are actually quite rude.
This was genuinely wholesome. Fun and informative at the same time. I would love to see more from this artist.
As a lesbian and an LGBTQ activist... These are cute and amazing! They actually remind me of my comics, but so much better
I remember seeing the official merch site the other day (where they have some plush toys of the characters). Now I'm really interested in getting at least one of them.
It's actually kind of sad because although they do look kind of cool, they only look like that after being dragged out of the ocean and suffering lots of tissue damage from being dragged through all of the pressure the ocean had on them. And after they die.
Load More Replies... I know I replied to them all 2 years late but I love coming back to these everyone once and a while, they are so cute
woke garbage, its cringe, its sad , imagine wanting to get run over by a car just to pay off your studentdebt even though its your fault ever wanting to persuade a degree that doesnt mean anything just sad really sad. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l2gJAjQJVSM
honeslty this liberal garbage, I wasted 30 minutes reading these comics i regret it just made lose brain cells
Here's a suicide prevention lifeline : 8002738255
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