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50 Light-Hearted Comics With A Sudden Twist By Yanni Davros
Interview With Artist
Millennials, Gen Z, and boomers fighting, presents from Santa, and shopping—these are some of the topics of Yanni Davros, the mastermind and well, the pen, behind Prolific Pen Comics.
Inspired by real-life people and situations, Yanni draws fun comics that can brighten up anyone’s day and make us nod in agreement. Especially when it comes to the notorious nail clipping aiming straight for your face as you do your nails, your dog digging in your backyard, or trying out the new air fryer. Bored Panda reached out to Yanni to have a chat and a few laughs, which you can read in the article as you vote for your favorite images.
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Yanni, a 33-year-old professional artist living in Sacramento, California with his girlfriend Niki and his dog Sai, is super into gardening, vinyl record collecting, cycling, snowboarding, and, of course, art. He got into drawing when he was around 3 years old and naturally gravitated to the pencil and basically never put it down as he got older. “I started by drawing airplanes and then got interested in painting and comics as a teenager. I was lucky enough to have supportive parents and I went to art school at the Savannah College of Art and Design, where I learned about art history and majored in sequential art.” And now, he makes his living doing art for tech corporations and advertising agencies.
The artist gets the inspiration for his comics from real life, people, and situations that he observes in the world and in his social circle. “My social circles are best because they are unique to my own experiences and give my work a genuine voice. I’m also pretty influenced by some of the absurdist comedy that was pretty popular in film and television in the '80s and '90s when I was growing up. It seems like more realistic, relatable comedy has grown in popularity since, so I try and pepper in a little of that too, but I would say my core comedy style is absurd and goofy. My art style, on the other hand, is influenced by newspaper comic strips like Peanuts, and Calvin and Hobbes.” He also loves kawaii art from Japan, like the Sanrio characters or Tokidoki characters, so there’s a little of that in his work as well.
There are four main characters in his comics: Olive, Teal, Fuchsia, and Violet, as he names all his characters after colors. “They are millennials with very different personalities and all trying to stumble their way through life. I also have a growing cast of supporting characters from various other age groups like kids, seniors, and parents, so I can lampoon a wider array of people and generations. I also love animal characters, especially bugs. My favorite is Rolly Polly, a socially shy pill-bug, which was also a fan favorite. He got popular enough for me to spin off into a side comic called 'Under a Rock' last year. I had to take a break from writing that one but I hope to return to it someday.”
“I am trying to reach anyone who wants a laugh or to think about the world around them differently. I think comics are the superior storytelling medium. In a way, they are the simplest, most abstract way to combine words and pictures to evoke an emotion. I want to eventually publish books,” shared Yanni.
Boomers love Facebook? Aren't they the ones complaining about technology?
Happy National Unicorn Day! (just thought that you might want to know given your username)
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My high school had a mandatory semester of "econmics" that literally was about personal finances, balancing checkbooks, paying bills, et cetera, so we all graduated knowing what to do, how, etc. Even explained APR and such on credit cards. Thank you, Mr. H., wherever you now are!
Wow, I wish my school had done that! A lot more valuable than a lot of other things (algebra, I'm looking at you).
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Like how much you can actually hate people when you're forced into a group project?
Actually my social studies class in high school DID teach us how to file your own taxes. It's one thing that has actually been super useful.
I do this with my classes. Basic tax knowledge also but I think it's a lot easier to do here than in the US?
I keep seeing these as well as comments on how they should teach this in school. Dude, that's college level stuff, Junior and Senior year in HS at the least. Realistically, a child doesn't have the same concept of money that an adult does. I learned the most basic of finance, i.e. how to balance a checkbook, in the 4th grade, but it took two days at a town created in a nearby school where we had to run it ourselves to stick. A child the age of the child in the comic (looks under 12) would not be able to retain information on taxes, it's not real to him in the same way as it is to his parent (s). They have trouble understanding the finer rules of getting an ALLOWANCE compared to a paycheck at that age. Now, it would be helpful to, perhaps, weave in small lessons into math class. Personally, I think it would be better classes to option as electives in high school.
I was never taught this in any school I went to. I don't know anyone who was. Despite that I'm perfectly capable of managing my finances, paying bills etc.
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Alright, who wants to learn about history? (By history, we mean World War 2 and nothing else.)
ohhh i feel that so hard (my family doesn't like my taste in music ;-;)
"Blackmail your opponents to establish dominance" -Sun Tzu, The Art of War
stereotyping the mafia as bad people is bad now?? we're both talking about the criminal organization right robert?
bet they can find that faster than my PACKAGE THAT I ORDERED 2 MONTHS AGO
Note: this post originally had 55 images. It’s been shortened to the top 50 images based on user votes.
These were pretty cute, but all these comic posts have the same name for some reason...
These were pretty cute, but all these comic posts have the same name for some reason...
