35 Funny Comics With Unexpected Twists That Poke Fun At Our Society By ToonHole Comics
Ryan Kramer, aka ToonHole Ryan, draws hilarious comics with unexpected twists that give us new insights into how weird our world really is. He’s part of ToonHole—a group of friends who illustrate funny cartoons. Together with his buddies Chris, John, and Mike, Ryan posts awesome content online on Monday and Friday for all of us to enjoy.
Ryan’s currently directing on Looney Tunes at Warner Bros. and he says that apart from making comics, he likes raising kids, enjoys meditation, fitness, and philosophy. He’s a real polymath who also loves breakfast burritos. And who can blame him for that? I mean, who doesn’t like breakfast burritos? Ryan has also released a book called “Don’t Leave Me Hanging” that is chock full of his gag comics. Scroll down for Bored Panda's in-depth interview with Ryan to learn more about his art and creative process! Don't forget to upvote your fave comics and let us know in the comments what you think of them.
The ToonHole dudes have been together since 2010 and all together they’ve drawn more than 1k comics (not to mention some animations as well). You can check out Bored Panda’s post about Ryan’s pal Chris Allison’s cartoons right here and our other post about the entire ToonHole gang’s awesome comics right here.
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The Virtue Signal
Or "I really don't give a s###, but I'll pretend that I care." Or "I'm too lazy/cowardly/selfish to do anything, but I want to come across as concerned."
Load More Replies...Excellent one. Like all people who tweet if something happens instead of really helping.
Damn it Alfred! Tag it on Facebook! You know no one in home isolation will see that!
"There are two types of people in this world: people who think the government is looking out for their best interest, and people who think."
Load More Replies...Don't Shoot!
Probably happens a LOT more than u know bc media loves the worst
Load More Replies...What a great twist at the end! Comics like this tend to go dark pretty quickly - nice to see one go the other way. And be funny.
Lovely how everyone likes the happy ending....what's wrong with the reality? Would that mean recognising that racism and excessive force from the police on the brown community is real.....yeah too much I guess
It's 100% possible to like the happy ending in this comic and recognize that racism and excessive force against the brown community exists at the same time.
Load More Replies...Now That's the kind of police shooting I actually do want to see. The other kind... well, never again would be nice.
A Good Time For A Raise
Every large enterprise should be forced to profit share rather than 'sit on wealth' with the eye of expanding the heap they already have.
It seems the cheaper the items are the more they pinch the pennies , All the latest equipment and machinery but 2 dollar safety glasses with a verbal admonishment if they break too quickly.
Many companies. I didn't get a raise for 2 years, and when I finally did after asking the second time, it was fifty cents. I was with the company ten years.
Ryan told Bored Panda that he’s inspired to keep drawing because he gets a satisfying feeling when he finishes something he likes. “It’s extra rewarding if my readership receives it well, too,” he added.
“I developed my style through a fondness of classic cartoons and MAD magazine. I’m also inspired by my peers in the animation industry and the webcomic world,” the illustrator revealed.
We were also interested to find out how Ryan and his friends met and founded ToonHole. “I met the other ToonHole guys in college and we bonded over a love of old cartoons and similar drawing sensibilities. It’s always a challenge to grow your audience consistently since media platforms are always evolving and moving the goalposts. It’s also a challenge to get big accounts and content aggregators to appropriately credit your shared work,” he shared some of the challenges that they as creators faced.
Snubbed Again
*grandma slowly picks up carving knife during prayer*
Load More Replies...When you grow up in a Christian family, you are taught that it's the farmers that grow the crops etc and to be thankful for that. That's what harvest festival is all about. Often grace includes thanking those that grow the food we eat it or similar. Farming is used as a theme throughout the bible in parables, so the importance of those that grow the food is definitely not forgotten. Thanking God isn't excluding those who worked to produce our food. It's inclusive as it teaches thankfulness for what we have and where it comes from.
Yes, whenever I pray before dinner I say “Bless the hands that prepared it.”
Load More Replies...Yes, in our everyday lives, farmers dont get enough appreciatiom- monetary or otherwise.
Neither do immigrants who work in the fields and orchards
Load More Replies...With a slight change in scenery: The team battling with Covid-19 is trying to keep a patient in intensive care alive, doing exhausting work, both physically and mentally. Two weeks go by, three weeks, and then a glimmer of hope. Another few days and the patient leaves intensive care, sometime later they leave the hospital, cured! "Hallelujah, praise the Lord!" says one of the relatives, "Thank God!" says the other, while the doctor and the nurse overhearing the praise are to tired to say anything at all."
How Will They Know?
Someone I called to wish happy birthday told me that if I don't write on Facebook is like the same as I didn't said nothing. If you would be my friend you would see that I use Facebook as a contact book and not to tell my life.
2020, where you're not officially dating until you plaster all your b******t on social media.
Good grief this is so true. really kind of pathetic. My boyfriend and I finally became friends on facebook, I JOKINGLY asked, well aren't you going to say you are a relationship with me? He says if I have to put that on facebook for you to know we are in a relationship that is pretty sad. Half time you see all these stupid lovey dovey messages they are the most miserable people and are trying to convince themselves how much they love the other person.
Good Parents
This also applies to vlogger parents who film everything their child does instead of actually engaging with a child. No child should grow up with a camera shoved at their face.
I really think getting children is more of an egoistic thing rather than caring about the children themselves... that's als one of many reasons why I don't and never will have children ^^
Load More Replies...At least they werent texting, when they were right next to each other..........
on screens ouch. and playing with your child is a way to bond and being a good parent = playing with your child
“Writing a good comic means I have to allow time for my mind to wander so I can capture an idea worth drawing,” Ryan told Bored Panda about his creative process. “A comic from start to finish is usually anywhere from 2 to 6 hours depending on complexity and style.”
Ryan added that he feels extremely grateful to have the readership and support that he’s amassed over the last 10 years. “I hope my work ushers a little more joy into the world because making these has surely given me immense pleasure.”
More than 99k people follow Ryan on Instagram and he has nearly 5.5k fans each on Facebook and on Twitter.
Support Group
Something tells me the same thing happened with the impostor syndrome support group
My offspring has social anxiety, and I have always tried to be helpful to those with it. I will always stand up and be the spectacle so that they can feel ok not being the spectacle, but still being there with other people... Spectacling at me...
this is the comic that made me relize, that indeed, i have social anxity
Dangerous Things
It's not like 5G doesn't have any impact on your body, but it definitely doesn't cause covid-19, that's total bs.
That is likely false. Many of the peer reviewed articles that claim 5G is harmful to humans also say that using any cell phone at any frequency also may be related to brain cancer.
Load More Replies...one kid in science said that his mom won't let him near the microwave bc of radiation, and our teachers like well your phones are worse for you than microwaves. next day he didn't have a phone. his mom took it.
Then why does she let him go to school? By car? By bus? By foot? Crossing a street is dangerous business in comparison
Load More Replies...The sun has some serious effects on human tissue too. I still don't want to give it up.
I am very scared of 5G. I watched a YouTube video of a cable installer of 5g....he was even scared of installing it
not covid but you can get other health probs. because of to much time on phone
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Ryan’s friend Chris previously told Bored Panda a bit about what inspiration is like for him personally and gave us some more insights into how the ToonHole squad looks at art and creativity.
For Chris, inspiration is like magic and can come from anywhere: “A conversation, a book, an overheard conversation, a misheard word, or seeing somebody trip on the sidewalk. There are no rules!”
The entire ToonHole gang of friends has different approaches to art and their creative processes. For example, Chris told us that he likes to mix it up and draws some comics digitally and some using analog materials like ink, watercolor, and colored pencil. For Chris, it takes him roughly 3 hours to finish a single comic starting from the thumbnail to the finished piece.
No Idea
Or it went from working dad who is a workaholic to being in quarantine with his family.
Load More Replies...you think that he said oh my god over teh smoking but he didnt even realize he had a daughter
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Life's just not your own when you're stalking someone. I bet she never asks you where you want to go does she?
Obviously I kid, been stalked it's not s**t and giggles...
Load More Replies...Stalking: when 2 people take a walk together but only one of them knows about it
I was stalked had we had pictures judge warned them they finally moved and that is why this cartoon makes sense it rolls out of control just the way I wrote it. Left out parts, they murdered three people , then people believed we were serious.
A stalker stalks but why did you speak up and get yourself caught Well i guess he wanted all the credit
Growth Ray
I'm a pervert and I tough they will grow hair on their heads. 😂
Load More Replies...but first we're going to test it in a traditional method on something far more important....
All he wanted was a better brain, too bad they didn't really have one at all
Load More Replies...If I had a way to increase penis size I'd patent that s**t and make Jeff bezos look poor overnight
Generous Donation
is this an allusion to the campuses that accepted a "donation" in return for admission?
Oh there gallons! Thank God. Till the last frame I thought they were condoms.
Wow but the mom pulled of that joke not the kid so shouldn't the mom be allowed in?
Illegal Drugs
Like the father who hears his 9-year-old use a swear word, and bellows "Where the hell does that little prick learn such language?"
Yes and nicotine as Oskar said. They're taxed, they've been used for a long time (so it's controversial to try controlling them now), and they support the current economical and political structure. There's also some history behind marijuana prohibition but I suck at remembering things like this... (I think it was a political move regarding immigrants in the US a long time ago...hmm but nevermind). It's not about health, in my humble opinion. I think it's about control. Ps.: I don't smoke.
Load More Replies...Good thing we'd got legal drugs to deal with our woes... prescription drugs, alcohol and nicotine.
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Ewww, A Snake
My pizza is not complete without pineapple! I'm afraid of snakes. I think they look great in comics, though.
Load More Replies...I LOVE PINEAPPLE ON PIZZA AND SNAKES THANK YOU VERY MUCH Tenzin Moore!
Vacation Time
Where are you coming from? I wanna move there.
Load More Replies...Final Blessings
I was expecting so many comments about how this is offensive but I was pleasently surprised
Obesity Epidemic
As a matter of fact she would also have to sue the news channel to get a ridiculous amount of money ^^
Load More Replies...Preserving Species
This fits the reports that the pandas in some zoo who did not manage to recreate in 20 years did so while the lockdown was in effect...
With this kind of sex dirty talk who can get on the mood ?! 🙄😅
You Probably Shouldn't
Only if you're embalmed and then buried. If you have a natural burial with no "preservatives" and a simple coffin it's fine for the environment.
I live with "people" that eat mice (snakes) so I'm not to worried about the food situation (also I share crickets with my geckos sometimes)
"You probably should've" punched him in the throat and told him to mind his own f*****g business.
Spot Me
I love that our visual cartoon shorthand for firefighters is hat, turnout gear, and hunky. :)
Just as I figured.....minus the dog not being happy about it.
I'm thinking doggie has already done that too many times. He's pooped out.
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Who Soiled The Carpet?
No, but that woman could smell it! You cannot mistake the one for the other.
Load More Replies...One ending I thought of was a cat with a malevolent grin thinking "Ha ha, I managed to frame the dog again!"
What if the dog did that "oh my god this s**t is so cute"
Load More Replies...A Very Good Girl
Why does Santa come only once a year? Cuz he spends the other days in jail for breaking and entering
I'll give you one guess what part-time, temporary job all pedophiles get every November to December.
Non-Profit
He's a lawyer. It says "Joe's law firm". There are no investors.
Load More Replies...... except there are pro bono law firms, and environmental and social law groups that are non-profit.
Airlines nowadays...and they want a bailout -______________________-
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Shake Well
My grandma had the other type where you tense up and cannot move properly for even hours. She was an awesome lady and would have found this punny.
Not really. When you get something like this that changes you're entire life you either have to find the humor in or it's going to overwhelm you.
Load More Replies...A Bunch Of B.S.
evolution states that the features that still remain are superior traits one way or another.
Somewhat incorrect. Long term evolution (the more day to day one) selects against detrimental traits while neutral and good ones "progresses". You seem to be thinking of short term evolution (very rapid and big changes in environments, like the dinosaur extinction) is the only that only selects for good traits.
Load More Replies...Closer than microbial. Fish and humans are both vertibrates, so we are more closely related than more than half the animals in the world, much less plants, fungi, and microbes.
The president is on an official state visit to China and as part of the grand welcome put on by the hosts, he is taken on a tour of a state of the art aquarium holding a vast number of different sea creatures in tanks large and small. In one big tank, there is only one single fish, a most unusual one. It is a fish that if a human makes eye contact with it, it can't look away, and as if it mesmerized, it will swim wherever the eye-movements direct it to go. A handler shows how it is done and, after a few laughs, the party moves on. Minutes later, they realize that the foreign president is no longer with them and guards are sent back in a hurry to find him. They found him standing in front of the fish tank, firmly staring into the eyes of the fish, slowly, rhythmically, opening and closing his mouth...
Evolution doesn’t work that way. Let me actually wake up first. The gist is the individuals who have the genotype and phenotypes that confer advantageous qualities in an environment would be more likely to live long enough to procreate. The changes in the environment could also one day render those advantageous qualities useless or a liability. EdIT: and then those little monsters are more likely to procreate —> individuals with/and the advantageous traits spread in the population.
I'm totally clueless of half of what you said, I just find it funny that the fish and the guy look similar. thanks for the quick gist. XD
Load More Replies...Thinking that the word she wants is mitochondrial, but hey, it's a joke
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hey! don't cut the last part where the girl is actually the father in disguise.
And his father is proud and-under-...7193-7.png
So Kenny is a literal-minded drone totally incapable of analysing different situations and applying appropriate adaptations. Poor Kenny.
Poor kenny because he made out with his dad and-under-...7193-8.png
Ugh
Breath of the Wild would be a great place to explore
Load More Replies...Check The News
Well if you're happy with just being content and have no problems or misgivings about it, then I'm sorry to tell you, but you're "happy". It's inescapable. "You must be happy. Resistance is futile!" lol
Load More Replies...He's Looking Out For Us
Like all the stupid athletes who say "I just wanna thank God for helping me win" while after that on the news an Indonesian island got wiped out by a hurricane.
Not all people who believe in God are stupid , self centered, single minded heathens who think only of themselves. Some of us pray for people like that after we pray for the children in the hospital who find comfort in their Mother's prayers.
Street Performance
74/5000 Breaking as entertainment - the best before it ends about 35 years ago...
Staying Healthy
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Well, she didn't exactly say f**k. She said f**k. But I guess that means f**k. Something I would never ever say or write. Oh f**k, I just did... 🤔
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all...........that..............diaper........changin'...........disgustingness.........
OMG! This is, without a doubt, King of the Cartoons. All others bow before the King!!! (OMG! I'm still laughing!!)
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"The ghost of Usenet Postings Past"? Funny how things change, yet they don't change.
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This one is so clever! Tap water is very clean in many parts of the world and just as good as bottled. I drink it every day!
In the US bottled water IS tap water they buy cheap from municipalities, bottle and sell at a gross mark up while not paying enough to maintain the infastructure
Load More Replies...This is from family guy, only in family guy it turns out to be an RC Cola machine
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They cut down enough trees every year to cover New Jersey just to make coffins. I'm hoping that when I die I'll be lucky enough to get a conservation burial- turning the area that I'm interred into an area protected as a burial site and protecting it from development. Honestly, as a person who both loves and utilizes parks regularly, I think it's the best thing I could do as a dead body. Ask a mortician on YouTube has some GREAT information to make your own death plan! It's weird to think about, but telling people what you want is the best gift you can give them so they don't have to figure it out while mourning you.
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I am never sure whether I watch cnn/bbc/fox news/msnbc/etc. or a live streaming from a circus...
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it's like someone ask how you feel… they Don't want to know… they just want you to say fine and not that you feel like c**p.
Exactly. Then unload on them. Don’t mask your pain, don’t use humor to cope so much. Let the tears fall. It’s more for you, but if they learn to be more authentic with their words or learn to show up then everybody wins.
Load More Replies...There's a great little George Carlin bit about this challenging everyone to do exactly this. Someone offers the "anything you need..." BS, take them up on it and tell them you have tons of laundry, a yard full of dog poop, and a kid that needs a ride to and from school. Find out REAL quick which people you need to bother f**king with after that.
Strange turn of phrase at the end of your comment. Shouldn't it be more along the lines of "You find out really quickly who your real friends are/who you can depend on when SHTF?"
Load More Replies...So true everyone says after a bereavement I am only a phone call away and you have plenty of visitors after the funeral you are left alone and no one visits or calls and people avoid you in the street it's just a fact of life you really do have to move on
But you could always revisit. Let yourself be vulnerable from time to time. Those moments let us know what’s wrong.
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RabbitTheory: bullies are people who are bullied at some point and it is a never-ending cycle
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I like the "I'm very open minded about things that I agree with" part. Like... yeah dude... not how that works :))
I think she should have walked when he asked her what the question was...
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I only do this for scary movies, and keep the specifics to myself. Love the adrenaline pumping, not the scare.
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This happened in America's first bank robbery, kinda. https://www.thevintagenews.com/2018/08/13/americas-first-bank-robbery/
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how did this happen, like how did they get the noodle between the tables to do this without thinking that it was a bad idea
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Maybe he went into the endless IKEA. You can find the story on YouTube.
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So many people stop going to the gym cause they're just mocked by the other patrons. Instead of pointing out why they're there, maybe just let them work out like they're trying to
Those people need to be identified. Some gyms are starting to ban those members.
Load More Replies...people telling you you're overweight does not help the person who's overweight, it makes it worse. Maybe ... "Hang in there, I'm proud of you" to someone walking or at the gym instead.
Taking beautiful walks and exercising with them are better options. People who think they’re helping by telling you you’re overweight are delusional. Besides your pcp.
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please click "I'm not a robot" and enter the last 4 digits of your card..
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I once saw an old guy walk into a laundry ... with a suitcase. He opened it, layed out a bunch of crapped underwear, looked at them seeming interested, and put them in. They came out no cleaner than they got in, and I never again went there. Grossed me out...
That may be the reason, why in some countries we own a washing machine ;)
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lol that's literally where i thought the joke was going after seeing the first two panels
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She wanted to hear his voice but then sent the call to vociemail and texted instead, because most people hate answering phone calls
Load More Replies...She's an introvert like many of us:). Talking to people freaks her out, but texting is okey
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What in the world is a split charge? Are you charged because the restaurant had to use math and divide your total?
some restaurants charge a split charge if two people share an entree
Load More Replies...Haha! I love these! The art style looks really familiar but idk where i've seen this before. Kinda reminds me of my own art style a little bit in some of them :)
This creator has been posted on BP before, and I’m glad they posted it again!
Load More Replies...I love the post, but how does it"poke fun at our society?" I do rly like it tho
Haha! I love these! The art style looks really familiar but idk where i've seen this before. Kinda reminds me of my own art style a little bit in some of them :)
This creator has been posted on BP before, and I’m glad they posted it again!
Load More Replies...I love the post, but how does it"poke fun at our society?" I do rly like it tho
