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Raph, an artist from Melbourne, Australia, has gained a large following on Instagram with his funny comics that often have dark, surprising endings.

He started drawing in school to make his friends laugh, and after a trip to Japan, he switched from long comics to short, humorous strips. Influenced by Cyanide + Happiness and Adventure Time, Raph's style varies but always focuses on the joke. His simple character designs help highlight the humor.

Raph enjoys seeing people's reactions to his work, despite the challenges of staying consistent and dealing with social media algorithms. Outside of art, he makes music and plays Blizzard games alongside other things.

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

It's like when you put your device on it's charger and find out the charger doesn't work later.

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

I'm in this picture and I don't like it

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

I would check if you have sleep apnoea if you recognise this.

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

    Why two right arms?!! It could be two LEFT arms!

    LostGirl
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    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Well, there is logic there.... but wouldn't the hand be better in the middle?

    Peyton Green
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Ok... I have always wanted three hands tho

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    Marsx Bars
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Meanwhile Penicillin is now a super common medicine allergy

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

    ♪ Ura---nium fever has done and got me down, Ura---nium fever it's spreading all around ♫

    David Henry
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Is that person off to the far back left giving themselves head...?

    Vice versa A
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It's funnier to die together, probably

    Tuna Beach
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Christians: this is what we've been praying for!

    Samuel Pelatan
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Wouldn't you just be drafted or conscripted tho ?

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    Der Kommissar
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    There are cats starving in India

    Rienk Kroese
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    There is one of every living being starving in India.

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

    Fun fact, cats get something called 'whisker fatigue'' when they eat from bowls, it's uncomfortable for them when rubbing the whiskers on the bowl. So basically they're not asking to be fed, they're asking for help, ie: shake the bowl.

    Mrs. Ginger McSarcasm
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Actually cats will go for your face first once you're dead.

    Old Wardog
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I'm almost afraid to ask how you know that.

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    LostGirl
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    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It's enough to wake the dead I suppose

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

    I wanna join them for this one. Most sequels are letdowns.

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

    Nothing 3 ain't nothing - they did a total reboot!

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

    Yay, they finally added multiplayer to it!

    Menacing Duck
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Can't wait for Nothing: 3!!

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    Noah Chambers
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    P1 I'm a patient man But there's one thing I've been waiting for My whole god damn life My eyes are aching man But I can't blink, just in case it falls When I close my eyes I know I should let go But there's a part of me that Still hopes it can do it But every time it gets close It double bounces off of both walls uh, uh I'm still waiting for the DVD logo To hit the corner of my TV The little baby's driving me loco Who knew a graphic could be cheeky? It's just teasing me My eyeballs are now crispy to the touch (I can touch my own eyеballs Is that normal?) waiting for the DVD logo To hit the corner of my TV I'm not a mad man I do not spеnd my time exclusively Watching my TV i've got a webcam So I can check on it remotedly and discreetly It's taken over my life my wife divorced me And she took all eight of our kids I missed the birth of my child But I just know it would be Worth it not to miss When the cheeky little DVD logo Hit's the corner of my TV Did you see that one?

    Noah Chambers
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    P2 Oh heck it, that was so close I trained one eyeball to be lazy So I can multi see My eyeballs are so crispy to the touch (No amount of liquid can rehydrate them) I need the DVD logo To hit the corner of my TV Sometimes I wonder what will Happen when it hit's Will the world stand still or Fold into a dream? Will the DVD logo come to life And hold me like I held my wife? I need the DVD logo To hit the corner of my TV I'm tired of this permanent prologue Let me handle what I can see I can nearly reach oh baby, I can feel it Something's reeling into me So baby just keep being Don't police your energy Ooh, ooh, ooh, haa, ooh, ooh, ooh

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    LostGirl
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    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    What??? Nooooooo! Now we'll never know!

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

    This type of thing is so exciting that some streamers dedicate their streams to it.

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

    Affirmations in The Twilight Zone.

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

    No need to rush.

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

    But, but - the snails were trying to save them, didn't they hear the snails' wuffle of danger

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    Abigail Moritz
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    More unsee juice please. Order some for all of us.

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    Bloody Mary (she/her)
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    here’s my philosophy; if someone has drunk out of it, it’s half empty. if somebody filled it up, it’s half full. if you weren’t there to witness any of the events prior and you see a glass of water that has liquid that goes to the halfway point, it’s a glass of water.

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

    I figure it depends which way you're moving towards. If it's a pool you're filling, you'd say half full. If it's a cup you're drinking, it's half empty.

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    Mimi La Souris
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    the glass is full, half by water, half by air

    Mike D
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The volume of the glass does not properly correspond to the volume of the liquid.

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

    That's guano cause some problems.

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    The President
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    He was truly an exemplary olive 🫒

    Rienk Kroese
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Brutal. This olive on olive violence has got to STAHP!

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

    You can even see the red! How did this get past bored panda censors?!

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    LostGirl
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    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Don't worry flower, good times will come... just don't open your mouth in the process

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

    They make it look nicer in those nature documentaries. Probably selective editing.

    LostGirl
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    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    why isn't the other bird's face green?

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

    And that, children, is how a vampire pees.

    cj be like
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    They must live in the apocalypse or something- oh never mind i just saw a guy doing that

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

    Do not yank the nipple piercings

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    Miles Mawyer
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    yeah, don't they return to their birthplace to spawn? That would imply they have to swim downstream one way.

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    Ineke Pronk
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    And that's why you don't pee in a river during the salmon migration.

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

    Risky when the roll doesn't come with instructions.

    Bridget Myers
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    But, there's still paper on the roll.q