Some wear their hearts on their sleeves for the entire world to see. Others hide their emotions much better and keep their thoughts secret. However, no matter who we are, what we do, and how well we may hide it, we all have inner monologues that reveal our true feelings.
Cartoonist Tommy Siegel draws witty comics featuring candy hearts that resonate very well with people because they show our honest feelings which we might be scared to share with everyone else. A lot of us would probably agree that we’ve had some of these thoughts running through our minds at least once or twice in our lives. Upvote your favorite cartoons, keep scrolling and let us know in the comments what you enjoyed most about the comics.
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However, candy hearts are far from the only drawing ideas Tommy has — he has a wide repertoire of online comics that drew in more than 83,400 followers on Instagram and another 54,500 on Facebook.
I was actually reading something about this. Relationships tend to be better balanced when one side is a little more selfish. Couples were able to predict what their SO wanted to watch more accurately when one person is a little more selfish, thus leading to more balance when choosing shows to satisfy both of them, than in relationships where both are altruistic or both are selfish
“I hail from Richmond, Virginia. But for the last ten years, I've been based in Brooklyn, New York,” Tommy told Bored Panda in an interview. “I've been a full-time musician for most of my adult life in the band Jukebox the Ghost, so cartooning and comic strips as a serious pursuit are still pretty new for me!”
“I'm self-taught, aside from some drawing lessons in elementary school. I kinda put drawing on hold for a couple of decades while I was focusing on music, but returned to cartooning recently,” Tommy explained about his relationship with art. “My drawing skills increased dramatically in the last couple of years. A few weeks ago, I completed a challenge to draw a comic every day for 500 days! It was… an insane thing to do and incredibly difficult, but it definitely helped me develop a voice and challenged me to become a better artist.”
I think that religion is a dealbreaker. It's too fundamental to a lot of people's lives and I wouldn't be able to put up with that.
It would only be a dealbreaker for me if they forced me to join or they judged me for not joining. Like i'm not gonna go to church with you every week, if you want to go, then go, but i have better things to do. if they believed in it but they didn't depend on it, i would be fine with it
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This won't work- pretending is not the solution. Willing to support, understand, even tolerate may work. But always be honest.
This one could be kinda cute? Like maybe yellow and purple are in a relationship and purple is willing to do this to make yellow happy?
There’s a lot of Couples where ones a theist and the other is atheist yet they manage to work it out. Not me, it would never work. I’ve been an atheist my whole life. I always said when my old man and I met we were both worried about that. But there were three things that would be a deal breaker for me: If we were different religions or lack there of, if he wasn’t a serious reader and into history & science, if he wanted children. I had two kids and this baby maker was closed. But I still had the box it came in and we used that to keep in practice. Turns out, he’s always been an atheist, fanatical reader and loved all history and science, he had two daughters AND DIDN'T WANT MORE, EVER. YAY! We were together for 35 years till he passed away in 2017. I miss him everyday.
My last girlfriend who was for the most part my perfect match broke up with me after I admitted that I could never actually be religious but that I would still accompany her to church. She don't want her children to be raised by an atheist.
My wife and I believe different things. I'm Buddhist, she's Christian. Differences can and do work, but pretending is probably not the way to go about it. We are honest with each other about our separate beliefs and are nonjudgmental of them. For example there is no need for me to point out that I don't believe there is a God when she mentions it. She knows how I feel, and isn't stating it to convince me, convert me or anything like that. I very much love her for who she is and what she believes, even if they aren't my own beliefs.
Nothing good never came from religion. I see it in my country and so many others. If you need a religion to be a good human being - you simply are not a good human being, instead you just are afraid of after-death punishment. Beliefs in other hand... you can believe in divinity, but keep it out of school, politics and law. Keep it private.
Dude. Whether people agree or disagree with you, no one ever wants to read all caps.
Load More Replies...Tommy also told Bored Panda that his “style swings wildly — I try not to pin myself down. The candy hearts series was part of the 500-day project, so they were interspersed with political cartoons and some totally dumb stuff.”
“When I'm not drawing candy hearts comics, I definitely draw a lot of butts,” he jokes. “So I guess I would describe my current style as "lots of butts and sometimes candy hearts."
“I drew a comic for Valentine's Day with candy hearts on a movie date. I noticed it really seemed to resonate with people and realized that the idea of candy hearts having their inner monologues printed on them was a great setup to try again.”
The artist further elaborated about his cartoons: “Sometimes they're just light and funny, but my favorites are the ones that get at something deeper about human emotions.”
“I don't think of them as being unromantic, personally. I just think it's a good format to draw attention to people's inner lives, which are often in contrast to the way they appear from the outside,” he added about the candy heart comics.
The candy heart cartoons raise a serious issue about how a lot of us shy away from sharing our inner lives and real feelings with others, even the people closest to us. Communication is the cornerstone for building lasting relationships and creating genuine connections with others, so it’s important to do it well.
The Better Health Channel writes that it’s important to communicate clearly in relationships because nobody’s a mind-reader. That’s why we should all find the time to talk without any modern distractions like TV or smartphones, accept responsibility for our feelings, genuinely listen to others without butting in, and avoid the desire to always be right.
I've never understood the "men hate marriage/don't wanna get married/are terrified they'll accidentally? get married" trope stereotype. If you don't wanna get married, don't propose. ? If assume it'd be that simple. Or if she is progressive, don't say yes if she proposes first.
They had no gender...for all you know all of them could have been lesbian couples.
Load More Replies... They had no gender...for all you know all of them could have been lesbian couples.
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