50 Quirky And Dark Comics With Twisted Endings By SpaceBoyCantLol

Behind the SpaceboyCantLOL comics stands Mohit Srivastava from India, who fell in love with comics when he was a kid. We contacted the artist to find out how his journey as a comic artist began.

"My parents tell me that once I found a few comic books as a kid and I fell in love with them. So other kids my age were learning to read fairy tales and I was here, running around with my cousins’ graphic novels, just to look at pictures since the advanced English used in those didn’t make any sense to me. Growing up, I would just draw comics on every piece of empty paper that I could find in the house and even at the end of test papers in school. That way, I have attracted a lot of detention but I have no regrets. Currently, I am working as a creative lead in a US-based company. But my job is not entirely about comics so I keep the love for comics alive through my social media page," he said to Bored Panda.

The artist says his younger sister pushed him to create a comic page and he went through with the idea.

"I am an astrophile, so when I was creating my comic page, I wanted that side of me to come out. So I called it 'spaceboy can’t lol' because I thought spaceboy would represent me and I would draw comics about funny situations in my life where I am at the receiving end. I did that for some time but slowly realized that there’s much more that I want to do, like movie spoofs and dark humor. I now realize that my comic portfolio has turned out to be a mix of everything, with just a single filter—Filters don’t exist."

We asked Mohit where he draws ideas from and what artists inspire him: "Looking at other artists’ work inspires me. Sometimes a similar concept or idea is envisioned by different creators and it’s quite insightful to see how different members of the community represent that same idea, differently. A few pages that I love on Instagram are mrlovenstein, extrafabulous_comic, loading.artist, and war.and.peas. To this day, I don’t know how and where I get my ideas from. It’s like when I am not even trying, I get the funniest ideas but if I sit down specifically to ideate, I can’t think to save my life. My brain and I run on different schedules."

Mohit said one of his favorite subjects to create about is superheroes and their daily struggles.

"One of my oldest memories of my childhood is about a red cape, soaring high in the sky and me really enjoying watching it on TV. But this wasn’t Superman. In fact, it was a cartoon show called Super Ted and it was him who introduced me to the superhero genre as a kid. I was so fascinated by that cartoon that my love for superheroes never abated, but in fact, kept growing. I probably draw comics because I wanted to create my own superheroes growing up. So there’s no wonder why I draw superheroes and pop culture-related stuff quite often.