40 Hilarious Comics You Might Like If You Have A Darker Sense Of Humor
Interview With ArtistThis week, we've introduced you to some amazing cartoonists debuting on Bored Panda. Happily, we still have a few more artists who are excited to share their work with you in the upcoming days! The creator of the "Skull Pizza" comics is one of them.
We got in touch with Steve, the author of the series, to ask some questions about his work. Firstly, we wanted to find out what inspired him to create his own comic strip. The artist said: “I've always been a doodler, but I think it was in middle school that I first tried drawing comics. Once I made friends laugh with them, I was hooked. For years, I really wanted to do a daily newspaper strip, but it never really worked out. Between the necessities of life and struggles with ADHD, I've always struggled to make money from my art. These days, I mostly do it for the love of comics and to meet fellow cartoonists. Of course, the dream is still to be able to do it full-time, but I'm grateful anytime a little extra money comes my way from these silly drawings. I've been drawing my comic Murdercake (in the slow process of being renamed Skull Pizza) for about 11 years without being on anyone's radar, so it's gratifying to see people starting to notice my work.”
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We were curious about what themes and motifs the artist likes to feature in his series in particular. Steve shared with us: “I'm a big fan of horror movies, so a lot of jokes about spooky films and characters appear in my work. I like putting those characters in absurd or everyday situations. I draw comics about a certain hockey-masked fellow every Friday the 13th, for example.”
The author of “Skull Pizza” told us more about the characters featured in his strips: “My comics don't really have a set cast, but I have a lot of recurring characters, sort of like sketch comedy. Reader favorites seem to be The Agents of S.N.A.R.C., who show up at ridiculous crime scenes to make bad jokes; President Bear, a literal bear who was somehow elected commander-in-chief; Dracula, who has terrible luck with ladies; Krampus always shows up around the Holidays; and of course my ‘Shork Week’ comics that I've drawn every summer for six years running. There are always new characters being added or resurrected.”
I've never received a chocolate bunny with ears.
Load More Replies...Next, the artist revealed more details related to his creative process while working on the new strips: “I mostly work digitally these days on an iPad Pro. I'll hop around between Procreate, Clip Studio, Art Studio Pro, and Adobe Fresco. Each have their strengths, and I like experimenting with them all. I'll still do comics on paper once in a while, just for the fun of it. Sometimes I'll doodle an idea with a pencil on paper, then bring it onto the iPad to ink and color.”
Right? October 31, still halloween decor. You go at 3 am November 1, CHRISTMAS!!! Ugh
Load More Replies...Quit downvoting everyone BP trolls, there’s nothing wrong with the other comments
Lastly, Steve told us about his biggest influences in the world of comedy and humor: “As a kid, I devoured Peanuts, Calvin and Hobbes, Bloom County, and The Far Side. I also grew up watching reruns of The Kids in the Hall, which probably influenced my sense of the absurd. Now there's so much inspiration everywhere. You can't throw a rock without finding a brilliant comic on social media. This has led to meeting lots of hilarious artists who continue to influence my comics and let me bounce ideas off of them and (hopefully) make them better. Every Friday, I livestream a Drink & Doodle with Brian Gordon from Fowl Language Comics on FB Live (and soon probably Twitch), if you ever want to give us a silly prompt.”
A gingerbread man sits in a gingerbread house. Is he made of house or is the house made of flesh. He screams not knowing why.
I miss the days when boxes of breakfast cereal came with a little toy inside.
Who says Octoberon isn't another name for the Great Pumpkin?
Load More Replies..."After Schulz". It's a pretty common thing artists do. It's a deliberate acknowledgement of the artist they're homaging/parodying. edit: the other common one is "With apologies to..."
Load More Replies...Puns don't get much cornea than that. Put a lid on it before someone lashes out and browbeats you.
Wouldn't it take a couple of seconds? Like, maybe you could quickly take it off and on? Idk I don't feel like googling, but yet I can type all of this out.
Hahahaha. No. It's incredibly cold and no pressure. Edit, copied this from astronomy.com, The moment you take your helmet off, you only have up to 15 seconds of consciousness and two minutes before your body shuts down. Unfortunately, the environmental conditions of outer space are very deadly to the human body and, the effects of being exposed to this environment are incredibly rapid. No one in their right mind would willingly remove their helmet in out space, knowing the consequences that are about to follow. Maybe it isn’t your fault, and micro debris collided with your helmet. As much as you may want to save yourself, there wouldn’t be much you could do. Once you remove the helmet, all oxygen in your body will be pulled out and disappear. This happens so fast that your body won’t initially register that it’s entirely out of oxygen, so your heart will continue to pump blood. Depending on your location, the skin on your face will start burning or freezing, and the pressure would cause all bodily fluids to boil. All of this occurs over a period of 90-120 seconds, and we should all be thankful that we wouldn’t be conscious to experience it all. Once the vacuum of space takes the oxygen from your lungs, your immediate reaction is to try and inhale. Even if you couldn’t control it, trying to breathe without your helmet would be a painful mistake. One that you would, unfortunately, experience within your 15 seconds of consciousness. Technically, if you were much closer to the spaceship, it’s possible you could survive if you made it back to the ship in under 15 seconds. Regardless, your body will still be in shock due to the rush of damage it took from the vacuum of outer space. Although your internal fluids would eventually boil, this process causes your bodily fluid to lose heat energy very quickly. This would cause them to freeze before they were able to evaporate from your body entirely. Boiling liquids within your body would cause you to expand, but it’s essential to understand that you would not simply explode. Even during your 15 seconds of consciousness, it’s possible to feel micro asteroids hitting your head at extremely high speeds. This danger alone could cut your life short before you ever reach your 15-second limit. Finally Taking your helmet off in space would, for the most part, lead to very regrettable outcomes. Well, you wouldn’t even be able to regret them!
Load More Replies...Antivaxers are like “I’m so tired of these helmet mandates- nobody’s gonna tell me what to do”.. Natural selection is a beautiful thing! 😎
That's fine, right up to the point where they go ..."and we're not going to let anyone else do things we don't like, either".
Load More Replies...I heard that outer space smells like cooked steak. Makes me wonder how they found that out.
The Twilight Zone sounds like a nice place to be in. If you get cheese with the wine that is.
More interesting in the Twilight Zone than in the Twilight movies.
Load More Replies...Oh, I remember this. It was a bit before covid hit (2018 or 2019 iirc), a ton of webcomic artists decided to all make the same comic for April Fool's Day.
For some reason the grimace here looks akin to A substance dealer.
You’d look like that too if you had to search as far as he did for a McDonald’s with a working ice cream machine.
Load More Replies...Fun fact: he never said “Luke, I am your father” Luke said something like: “he told me you killed him (his father).” And Darth Vader said: “No, I am your father.” *Dark music*
Hilarious work! Loved every one. I especially appreciate the knock-offs: priceless! Keep up the great work!
