30 Funny Comics By An Italian Artist Sum Up The Everyday Life Of An Average Girl (New Pics)

Average Girl, known in real life as Laura, told Bored Panda how she got into art: "It may be a clichè, but I started drawing when I was very little. My babysitter used to read mangas to me and my dad read comics to me as well, so comics have always been a big part of my life! I drew my first comic when I was 6 and I never really stopped. After high school, I started posting my comics online and since then webcomics have been my way to tell stories."

"My comics are about daily life and experiences, closely following Average Girl, the main protagonist. As you can tell by the name, she's a pretty average girl who struggles through life just like everyone else. My stories are usually funny and exaggerated because what fun would life be without something to laugh about?" Laura said.

She says her inspirations come from everyday life situations such as hitting your toe, burning the cookies, or shampoo in your eye: "I take those seemingly banal and irrelevant everyday experiences and turn them into something funny and relatable."

Average Girl stands out for her hilarious art style. She's able to draw characters with expressions like no other and it adds charm to the comics. The artist told us about the evolution of her unique art style.

"My art style started off with Pokèmon when I was a kid and passed through many stages before getting to what it is now: I had a Winx-style phase, a Naruto-style phase, a D.Gray-man phase, but only when I started my webcomic did I find my very own style, which is a mix of all the comics and mangas I read, simplified in a cleaner, a not-so-realistic style that kinda resembles chibis. A simpler drawing style can make the difference when you have to make a lot of comics in a short amount of time!

"Even though I'm a comic artist, I look up to any kind of artist, really. I love seeing how other artists illustrate the world in their own unique style and I try to take from them anything I can. A couple of artists I really look up to are Gigi Cavenago, Olimpia Zagnoli, and Emiliano Ponzi," Laura named the artists she draws inspiration from.

Besides light-hearted laughter, Average Girl comics have a meaningful mission of making people around the world feel better and less alone.

"With my comics, I hope that people can learn and accept themselves a little bit more. We all can feel like the underdog sometimes, or like losers, so with my stories, I'd like to make my readers feel understood and less alone. We are all special in our own way, and life can be beautiful despite all the misadventures we may have!"