We humans tend to think that we rule the world because of our superior capacity to think and love. Other creatures on this planet are left with jealousy that they don't have such talents and abilities. Or... maybe we assume that they don't. Perhaps animals know more about us and the world we live in than we think.
Let us introduce you to Erik and his project "Bonus Context". These comics depict our world from the perspective of animals, plants and things. It might surprise you how thoughtful and philosophical they can be.
After being asked what inspired Erik to create these illustrations, the artist replied that he doesn't know exactly, but he "does find birds funny for no good reason." We hope that you will find the comics as amusing as we do!
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Some of them just randomly punch fish, so they may be only marginally better ;-)
Load More Replies...Actually a lot of species have vocal cords. Animals wouldn't be able to make sounds without them. I've heard of some (horrible people) taking their dog's vocal cords out so they couldn't bark anymore.
There's a difference between intelligence and wisdom...but not much.
I disagree, there is a ruined world of difference
Load More Replies...Artist Erik, you are remarkable! Humorist, cartoonist, animal lover, ... perhaps most inspiring of all, a true philosopher.
Erik is an artist and a father of three kids from Sweden. According to the artist, he started drawing comics way later in life than he guesses most people do!
Erik has tried writing (novels, etc.) with mixed success for a long time. "I felt for a long time that I wasn't a good enough artist to create comics (or any visual art), but eventually just forced myself to try! I can really recommend that. Don't wait for something vague—the right time, inspiration or something else—just do it!"
Technically correct which happens to be the best kind of correct.
Load More Replies...I feel like the bird on the left sometimes. I'll admit I'm a little tired, sometimes, of having to carefully choose words to keep from stepping on toes. Worse when one thing offends one group but another gets offended when you try not to say it.
These are awesome! Also (this is just my opinion AND I know this is not the place for it AND I should know better than to post this HOWEVER I'm in a mood after a conversation I had literally moments before I saw this- so please no hate) I kind of love that the first two panels embody the very important distinction between childless and child free and that difference is important. Also related... don't judge a woman based on if she has, or doesn't have, kids. It has zero relevance regarding a woman's worth. Don't ever call a woman childless. I have friends that have tried and tried to have children and for any of many reasons have not been able to have them naturally or in some cases adopt them. Calling them childless is terrible. Thank you for tolerating my completely tangential rant.
Maybe we could replace that expression with "Free woman". The other two expressions I dislike because they seems to take for granted, that a woman is here to give birth/s and I like the idea that I am here to have a life.
Load More Replies...They actually rule 90% of Antarctica, Antarctica is known as the Penguin Empire So they Definitely are not interior in anyway other than wings.
Flying ducks and swans can go under water, but they can''t swim in Ice cold water for extended periods of time. Penquins can! Except when trapped by whales on ice floes.
don't worry, hank get's a special surprise in a later comic...
Hank is just a little salty, as we all can be sometimes. Don't worry Hank, let me get you some ice cream.
The artist shared that he always loves it when his comics create a discussion. "If something I create can make people have a nice discussion or just think about something they hadn't before, it makes me happy."
Jake be like: So guys! Today I'm going to build a house in Minecraft. And then build farms like carrot, potato etc. And then animal farm. Then infinite iron farm. When we will get all the stuff then we will kill the Ender Dragon.
Well, I dearly love all Fox too. But that crying bunny got me. I'm a pushover. All creatures great and small, I love them all...
While the artist is happy to know that his comics sparked a discussion, he tries to avoid forcing a message into anything he does—"if I can present a question or an issue where people can infer a message, that's the best!"
Fun Fact: Some species of swans (namely Black Swans) have been found to be in homosexual relationships with one another. A male Black Swan will mate with a female and have an egg. Once the egg hatches, the male swan chases the female away and will oftentimes begin a relationship with another male Black Swan. Kinda sad for the mom, but that's nature for you. And studies found that around 80% of swans raised by homosexual parents made it to adulthood, as opposed to their counterparts raised be heterosexual parents. Studies show that only around 30% of swans raised by heterosexual parents made it to adulthood. TL;DR, Some species of swans can be gay, and gay swans are more successful at raising their kids.
Fun story, but there was this pair of gay swans in my local pond (both were male), but they were definitely a couple. Someday, one of them died. Know what happened afterwards? The remaining swan hooked up with a goose...
Humans DO NOT mate for life we never evolved that way look at Chimps, bonobos and Gorillas and other Apes they don't do that so thats why relationships break easily.
In most hunter-gatherer tribes monogamous relationships are the norm, but they are almost never for live.
Load More Replies...He loves what he does, can't blame him for being passionate. Lol
They're born loving the things they do to keep the ecosystem in balance.
Load More Replies...One of my plans for my body after I die is to be eaten by vultures, otherwise used as an anatomy cadaver or fertilizer!
In WA State you can be composted. In other places (Nepal I believe) being fed to vultures is a sacred passage but your milage may vary. You can be an anatomy cadaver pretty easily though.
Load More Replies...It is true what he says about their important role in nature. Without vultures desieses would spread, so it is a pity, that they are killed off, because people see them as terrible.
We got curious about what makes Erik passionate about creating comics. The artist replied that he just loves comics! "I grew up reading mostly French/Belgian comics and I still love those. And comics are so good at conveying messages—graphic novels such as 'Maus' show that very clearly. And jokes, of course—the combination of text and visual comedy is probably what I appreciate the most."
Oh no its happened...the animals are finally beginning war...run RUN
Load More Replies...Hank's got his "s__t" together unless the owls have a drone; then Hank tanks.
Only they tend to forget, there are usually no profits to be had. You might be the one who loses the least, but there are no winners.
Load More Replies..."It's strange how humane things become when the people making the decisions aren't the ones farthest removed from the consequences." - Brandon Sanderson, paraphrased
Remember this, several politicians in the U.S. government, many serving on the Defense and Energy committees with "insider" knowledge, invested heavily in oil and defense stocks prior to the Ukrainian invasion. Surely just a coincidence???????
We should all be extremely anti war - the warmongers never pay for sending others to die. Yet they are given statues on top of it?!
Oh whoa, so richly profound. My heart goes out to all the animals who suffer in needless War also. Many Ukrainians are trying desperately to leave - with their pets 💙💛
Hmmmmm...a talking fox being interviewed about "cunning"; must be "FOX" news?!?
And now that he has your wallet I can steal your mic that you dropped. You don't always have to be cunning you know.
In Japanese mythology, Foxes r very intelligent & Cunning & great T'iefs. Lol
Where did the fox go?! Hopping, hopping, hoppitty, hop hop...
The twist is, fox 1 was lying and is *also* very cunning, and was just playing the distraction for his partner.
To bad they not cats....they would just land onthere feet
Load More Replies...Exactly you're finally getting after the last 4 puppies you pushed out of the nest THEY CANT FLY STUPID
of course you can save the picture, you just cant use it commercially
Load More Replies...No! What puppy had to fall from the tree for them to have this conversation?! 💚
You could say... there's not a very large *dating pool*
I heard goldfish have a very short working memory...so maybe?
Load More Replies...What a unique perspective on fairness. Stated this way, we do reward unfairness.
But did the blonde kid pay for both? It's fair if he paid for them and isn't sharing
But why call it Just a common blackbird. It is a beautiful bird, and where I live the best singer of all the birds. Not common at all.
In Czech, the word for blackbird is "kos", and I wonder - why did we decide to use a monosyllabic, three-letter word for this particular bird? What was so special about it to deserve that?
He'll get some ribbing when his mates find out though
Load More Replies...Good news! Many mammals have a penis bone! Bad News! Humans ain't one of them!
Well, it appears they are conscious beings, because he sure looks angry
I loved that book so much, thanks for reminding me!
Load More Replies...The only moment there will be no garbage is when there will be no more humans
is that what you tell yourself when you go home after all the competitions you lost
Ferro non oro! Non timetis messor! Veritas, ira et victoria! Nec pluribus impar! What is wrong? Oh, it was not about family mottos? Ok... I'm leaving.
Splitting one atom doesn't cause a nuclear explosion. It's a chain reaction of multiple atoms splitting that results in an explosion.
If you eat a plate of live frogs in the morning, nothing worse will happen to you for the rest of the day.
Isn't this basically how they've been avoiding actually progress for years? Lower your expectations is a political theme song
This is actually pretty insightful. If society successfully provided for our basic needs, we wouldn't argue so much.
Me, really. One minute society fills me with such rage, then I see something good and I'm suddenly happy
When ministers or generals gave bad (but true) news to Stalin, he murdered them... So the other ones started feeding him pleasant lies. Conclusion : if you don't like the answer, don't ask... and also, Stalin was a bad guy.
Kind of like Putin is being fed with pleasant lies right now... so he had to fire several of his secret agency chiefs. This still won't help him.
Load More Replies...Machiavelli was written as a warning, just like 1984, Necromancer, Brazil, etc. Unfortunately for use they are using them as how-to manuals.
He looks grumpy now. Somebody give him some McDonald's and a diet Coke.
To be fair, birds would definitely study turbulence more than us, and perhaps achieve better understanding.
Miss Ant. The males don't do anything but mate with the queen. All the work, including fighting, is done by the queen's thousands of daughters. And by any worker ants stolen from other ant societies.
Load More Replies...Not all of them. Anteaters are smarter than us, and doesn't take more from a single stack, than it can be repaired and grow again, until next time. So the anteater visits severel stacks a day.
What the heck does that have to do with a ant comic?
Load More Replies...I would think the mansplaining would be the worst part of that date.
Isn't "man splaning" when a dude explains some s**t to a woman that she clearly already knows? This doesn't fit.
Load More Replies...Who tf agrees to go naked base jumping on the first date? So,so,so many 🚩🚩🚩.
My opinion on that is when we are younger we anticipate things such as holidays, summer vacations, birthdays etc. As we become older the anticipation withers, Holidays/Birthdays become expenses, vacations become a week instead of 3 months amd more often or not nothing enjoyable is done, so we just stop looking forward to things as much as we used too.
"Nature" translates to a life that is almost universally nasty, brutish, short, and ends violently. Yes, I want to experience nature, but not like is is experienced by, say, these wolves' dinner.
More in a "have a picnic after hiking to a beautiful waterfall" kind of way
Load More Replies..."Those poor wolves are trapped in a zoo" say the humans. "They will never be free." The wolves would laugh if they heard this.
Born free, as free as the wind blows, as free as the grass grows, born free to follow your heart 🎶🎵
Load More Replies...Nature becomes one with me every time i eat. Why change that 🤷♀️
I will always try, but its sad that we cant hunt with our hands, drink ground water or eat raw things. We need our inventions to survive now
plot twist: the tree f*****g get's and walks away like a spider.
Thank you!!! My kids once made up a story like that with predatory trees in it.. it was a pretty cool scary story.. (p.s. we're a family who likes writing fiction stories.. so ..)
Load More Replies...Acually, it has been proven that crows can pass on information from one generation to the next. See: Nova "Bird-Brain"
But yet your family will toss most if not all of your stuff in the garbage! Pictures too.
Load More Replies...Actually, this is true for the majority of humans. Most of "our" histories have been written by the victors, not us commoners.
oh s**t, that's NOT fair, dang it, ruined my plans. . . /S
i love how the first soldier said that all WAS fair in love and war and then pointed out something that wasn't. lol
Actually, all parts of the dandelion are edible... though, as I just discovered by googling, same for the sunflower (minus roots). Gotta try out some of the simple recipes this year when the sunflowers flower...
You can make dandelion wine, too! People would be growing crops of it if it weren't a weed.
Load More Replies...Dandelions have a significant source of vitamin k which has been shown to prevent or offset the effects of Alzheimer's
I think they’re pretty. And they’re the ones that you can blow the seeds off of too
The bees need dandelions in early spring before the flowers are in bloom. Dandelions are beautiful to bees!
Never understood people's distain for dandelions. Pollinators flock to these bright and cheery flowers, and they are deliciously nutritious.
Or the aliens are just so far away that we will never met each other.
We, sorry, they could be here already, coordinating methane collection and transportation back to our, dammit, their planet where it is used in the parfum industry for the elite, and our, F**k, their local sources are rapidly running out. p.s. I am Hooman like u
I like the theory that the aliens are simply waiting for us to advance far enough that we would not destroy ourselves with the technology they would bring, or possibly just that they think we're idiots
No. Their DNA is still very much among us. I'm proud of my Neanderthal ancestery..
Modern humans have 1-4% of Neanderthal genomes (DNA). Does that mean we all have a little Neanderthal hiding in us???
eh, we have found evidence the did.
Load More Replies...Perfect illustration of modern warfare, and how far removed many are from their targets
real-life trolley problem, self-driving cars, in the event of an unstoppable accident who should it protect? Should it hit a pedestrian and protect the driver or hit a wall risking the driver? Would people buy more self driving cars that favour the driver over others?
“No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man.” Heraclitus of Ephesus
Load More Replies...The French word for bread is pain, and the baguette is saying ow, like he's in pain.
Load More Replies...The French word for bread is pain, and the baguette is saying ow, like he's in pain.
Load More Replies...Occam's razor doesn't say the simplest answer is always correct. That's how you explain it to kids. Occam's razor says that the answer with the fewest unnecessarily multiplied entities is likeliest to be correct. Relativity doesn't violate Occam's razor because it is mathematically proven at every step of the way. Even on the kids' version though, this is just wrong. Globe Earth the simplest explanation *that fits the available evidence*. Flat Earth requires you to reject centuries of geography and physics.
The second cheetah is holding a book on "slow food" instead of "fast food" because they are cheetahs and they normally go fast but there is slow and it is a visual joke
Load More Replies...Color me impressed! First time to "follow" any artist. Look forward to more!!
Color me impressed! First time to "follow" any artist. Look forward to more!!
