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Make yourself a cup of tea or coffee because we have prepared a delicious dessert for you. Scott Hilburn is back on Bored Panda!

Scott is a cartoonist who was born "on top of an arctic glacier", exposed to "high levels of intense radiation", and made his way to becoming a well-known artist. He creates a funny comic series called 'The Argyle Sweater' filled with absurd situations and silly humor. Why 'The Argyle Sweater', you may ask? Well, because "'The Argyle Cummerbund' was taken and 'The Argyle Girdle' just sounded plain silly."

Scroll down and enjoy these amusing single-panel comics! If, at the end, you still have some tea left, check out the previous post here!

More info: Instagram | twitter.com | theargylesweater.com | patreon.com

Scott Hilburn grew up in Garland, Texas. After graduating from Argosy University, he began working towards his master’s in clinical psychology/professional counseling. However, the artist decided to interrupt his studies to pursue his lifelong dream of becoming a cartoonist.

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

Oh snap (guys it should be purple if the father was red 👀)

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

So I was curious why lights and paint had different methods of blending colors (rbg vs rby) so I looked it up. Color is f*****g confusing. I found out that if you look at something purple, and blend red and blue perfectly it still isn't that color. It just looks that way because humans can't tell the difference between a naturally occurring single color and one approximating it through blending 2 or more

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

When you look at something "purple" it really isn't purple, it is only reflecting those wavelengths of light, it is entirely reliant on the source of light.

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

Maybe blue has a green gene. Mom is teal dad is Midnight blue.

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

Technically, there is only a 25% chance of it being purple, it could be blue tinged red or red tinged blue. But if there is a familial line where someone got frisky with a yellow, kid could be green-ish without anyone getting frisky with yellow for this specific crayon.......or blue went and got some of that 💛.

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

Side note: The depiction of a screaming crayon is disturbing. How do they cut the cord?

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

"Wait till I get my hands on Yellow! I'll sharpen him down to nothing!"

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

Yellow has some answers he doesn't yet know he will be asked to give.

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

Which means she had an affair with yellow.. uh oh.. where did the baby come out of? it was a C- Section!

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

Uh-oh! I'm a red, dad's a blue. It shòuld be a purple. I SWEAR, I don't even know any yellows, honest. ........ Honest!

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

first thought in these times nuclear war heads green for peace yay:)

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

in my Katt Williams voice Red, is like..."whose green baby is this?" 🤣🤣

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

I wondered if there was a recessive gene briefly, but I guess not! Oh, no!

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

No I'm totally not scouring the comments because I can't remember my college art class that covered the color wheel 🥲😂

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Dear idiot Americunts. Jokes this simple don't need explaining. Love The British

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Scott can be considered an old wolf in the comic world. His work is found in such giants as LA Times, NY Daily News, Chicago Tribune, Washington Post, Dallas Morning News, and more! People seem to enjoy Scott's edgier and darker humor, that's why he's so popular.

In one of his interviews, the artist revealed that he gets ideas for his comics from pop culture, historical references or "presenting animals or fairy tale characters with human settings and real-life experiences". Some of his ideas come from something he has overheard his kids say or do, but not as many.

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

Perkins has a perpetual lightbulb moment, which is misleading as he's actually quite dim. Sorry, I'll show myself out.

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Scott shared that Larson was one of his biggest influences. Besides that, he also read New Yorker cartoonists like Sam Gross and Tom Cheney. "I was always impressed at how a single panel cartoonist could say so much in just one frame – especially when the humor is inferred and required some thought on the part of the reader. That 'A-HA!' moment is something I try to create in my own cartoons."

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

To see the eclipse, they probably had to lean their heads back, and their horns punctured their skin.

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

My favorite. Robert Smith always had his high tops untied so that may be a problem.

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

Well just one of us, but we never leave a light behind, so we don’t work without em’

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

I get this one, but had to read the comments to get the one about the goats

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

Just a reminder that a down vote isn't a dislike. It literally can get people banned.

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

So wait…. Are we really big or are they really small? Or is it a little bit of both?

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