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If you find yourself bored and everything seems dull, perhaps this little treat of a comic might improve your mood. Sometimes all we need is to see how others live, how they experience the absurdity and how they find moments that are universally human.

Ari_stocrate is a graphic artist that provides this unique perspective into her life through her comics and plenty more. Being a vegan, having a sphynx cat and a BF certainly help getting all the inspiration that she needs to keep it entertaining and relatable.

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You might be thinking that they're just too good to be done by a single person, and you might be right. Ariane, the artist of the comic, has admitted that she gets her "ideas from small Peruvians I keep in my basement who work day and night to find the best jokes… and also real life. My all-time inspiration is Garfield, of course!"

"Hi, Bored Panda readers! Tons of love from Paris, France where I live! From me, my cat Jasper, my lizards and my shrimps, we all wish you an amazing day, may your pillow always be cold and your wildest dreams come true!"

Ari's been doing "great, juggling between my webcomic and working freelance as an illustrator right now but I'm loving it! And yes, there might be 2 big things coming up... regarding a book and a plushie... Not at liberty to say more."

Well, if you like my comics, I have a full trilogy of comic strips available on Amazon! It's called "Johnny Vampire" and it's about... a vampire called Johnny, who gets his manor taken away by the government for non-payment of his taxes. So he has to move to the city and deal with the struggles of living in a society™.

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Ari's not a traditional standard by any means, and her medium is "all digital, baby! Way better than paper. I hate paper. My home is paper-free. And also pepper free. That last statement is false. I love pepper. What was the question again?"

Besides Ari, there's another major character in her comic (and even that is an understatement), and that's Jasper, the sphynx cat. "My cat Jasper comes from the planet Cathar where he was discovered to be force-sensitive," jokes the artist. "But the empire declared him too powerful and put a bounty on his head, which is why he had to exile to planet Earth, he loves it here but he misses death sticks a bit."

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There are a few ways that Ari manages to make it fresh after all these years of comic creation. What works best for her, she said, is "changing art style once in a while! Subtle stuff. I experiment and see what I keep so that the style evolves!"

"I'd say create what you'd like to exist and don't compare yourself to others, only celebrate them and draw inspiration from them!"

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Ariane thinks that "The best thing [about comics] is anyone can do it, you don’t have to be Michelangelo to draw comic strips, the important part is the joke, not the art per se. The worst thing is some people don’t understand the minimalistic approach in comic strips for the joke to work and will criticize the art as if you were drawing a graphic novel. But trust me, drastic changes of angles and poses with too much added details spoils the comedy timing and you end up with a weird unfunny chimera between two genres. I've seen this, I've done this, you don’t want this."

If you ever wondered how Ari works on her comic, she gave us a little sneak peek:

"I have a long list of comics in the notes app of my phone, I don't search for ideas, they appear here and there! I'd say it takes me one hour per panel: storyboarding > sketching > inking > coloring!

My favorite part is the reception of the fans that comes with each comic! When they notice small details, make jokes, fanart, theories... It brings me so much joy!

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My least favorite would be... drawing things that are not characters like furniture, backgrounds, buildings."

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

What is up with ginger people and them not having souls? Where did that come from, lol

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This specific example is from South Park. It was a joke. It was pretty much used to show how dumb bigotry can be by taking something like hair color and making it something be feared.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

As a ginger, (more brown nowadays) I can say that this is... Sadly true

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Fun fact. The first slaves brought to the US were Irish children. They were cheaper. The owners were told it was "no more a sin to kill an Irish than a dog or other brut as they have no soul o bare". Thus. Children were used as animals. Full families were bought, bred and used this way and now even red haired stepchild jokes are acceptable.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Every little tiny dot on my perfect skin is a soul from.a,hate filled disbeliever Bow before those who've fallen before me foolish mortal.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

How do we make this above the part 2… cause I saw that before this

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Anita Jesena
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It's one of the things my friends from the UK said they'd always hear others say about them. That's before South Park was ever around too.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

According to part 2, the other girl’s dad is God- Saying gingers don’t have souls isn’t very kind, your father will be hearing of this

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I am Brazilian and gave birth to a red head child. She is amazing and intelligent but heaven or hell forbid you upset her. Neither can help you!

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I've never heard that, I know ginger people sometimes get picked on mostly in school, I haven't really seen it anywhere else, unless it's a guy who's friends are messing with him

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If you've been on the internet long enough, the chances are that you've stumbled upon them out there in the wild, or at least seen them out here on Bored Panda. Not so sure about that? Here's a refresher, where you may find the links to the previous parts: III.

And if you want to binge a little bit more on comics we published, here's a random selection of a few of them: I, II, III, IV.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Butterscotch: BlueBelle, i can’t go off like this! i’ll get the pony police! BlueBelle: that’s a real shame…

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Every.Damn.Time. I was really hoping I'd eventually outgrow the acne but at 30 it's still there.

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1 year ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

DOES ANYBODY ELSE SEE THAT THE PHONE SHE'S ANSWERING SAYS BABE?! ANYBODY?!?!?!?!?!!? (unless i messed up and am stupid) EDIT: Thank you so much to everybody who clarified :)

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

delicious. but if it’s normally chicken wings, vegan wings are…. (i’m not trying to be ignorant this is satire)

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