After two decades of constructing bridges and roads, civil engineer Aaron Stines decided that doodling superheroes in the margins of his blueprints wasn't enough. With a nudge from his wife, Lisa, he swapped his hard hat for a sketchpad in 2016, birthing Air Bear Entertainment.
Now, instead of calculating load-bearing beams, he's busy crafting webcomics that aim to make people smile—because who needs infrastructure when you can have punchlines?
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His comics are a mix of silly dad jokes, pop culture references, and quick punchlines, all told through one-panel cartoons. You’ll find everything from ancient cavemen discovering sarcasm to grumpy robots stuck in office jobs. There’s something familiar in each one, like a random thought you didn’t realize someone else had too. His background in engineering still shows up, not in the content, but in how carefully he builds each comic. The pacing, the word choice, even the expressions are all intentional.
Even though he left his old job behind, Aaron still treats cartooning seriously. He shows up for it every day, sharing his work online and chatting with people in the comments. A lot of his ideas come from regular life with his wife Lisa or just from noticing the odd things people do. “The world’s already kind of a lot,” he said in an interview. “If someone scrolls by and laughs, even for a second, that’s enough for me.”
