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Here Are My 30 One-Panel Comics That I Created To Highlight How Delightfully Ridiculous We All Are
Spicy Little Brain is a webcomic that showcases the absurdity of being human, and how delightfully ridiculous we all really are.
It was created by me, Sia Spark (she/her), an Australian artist. Spicy Little Brain is inspired by my experiences of mental health struggles, chronic illness/disability, and neurodivergence.
By capturing the strangeness of life, I hope to make people laugh and smile and lighten the mental load of themes and topics that can otherwise feel heavy and isolating.
It's awesome that so many people connect with my comics! I have lots of silly little thoughts and when I receive messages from people around the world who've had the same thought, it's really validating and honestly, quite fun.
Humor is definitely a coping mechanism for me (my therapist says it's okay!) and I quite enjoy poking fun at myself, my brain, and the issues that I've faced. It doesn't make them any less serious or important, but I feel like by bringing a little humor to it, it takes away their power over you, and that's pretty cool.
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LOL @ "6 meals a day" AND "Unlimited snacks." We did this at an all-inclusive resort once, and while it was incredibly wonderful at first, it was also alarming how quickly it became painful.
I’m a self-taught multidisciplinary artist from Australia. I’ve done lots more “serious” illustrations, but silly comics are by far the most fun for me.
A “spicy” brain refers to a neurodivergent brain. I’m Autistic, and I always refer to some of my patterns of thinking and communicating as “spicy”, so the inception of Spicy Little Brain was largely based on my thoughts and experiences as a neurodivergent person.
Spicy Little Brain was started initially to distract me from pain. I’m chronically ill, and part of that includes some pretty nasty ongoing pain. During a particularly bad flare-up, I just felt like creating something and allowing it just to be weird and silly, and not agonizing over the process.
At the time, I was also doing more “serious” illustration work, where I would spend up to 50-100 hours working on highly detailed pieces, and I was getting really frustrated with having to be super focused. So I wanted to distract myself from pain, but also get myself out of my head.
I was also making another comic at the time… it was very focused on positive, wholesome messages, and whilst that was fun, it felt inauthentic to me, and I wasn’t enjoying making it, because it just didn’t feel true to who I am. Whilst I’d like to say that I’m a positive person all the time, truthfully, I’m pretty cynical, analytical, and I get a little bit of joy out of poking fun at things that are a bit serious. Spicy Little Brain was a bit of a rebellion against all those things - pain, depression, anxiety, inauthenticity, and the weirdness of being human.I get a lot of messages from people going through serious, heavy things, or experiencing mental health struggles, or feeling isolated and strange about being neurodivergent… and they let me know that my comics have helped them find joy in humor in that. I think that’s so cool, and it really makes my day when I receive messages like that. If I can be part of helping someone have a better day by making them laugh or smile, and especially if I can help them feel less alone with humor, that truly makes my heart sing!
They’re just silly little comics, really… but they’ve shown me the capacity of honesty and humor to bring people together.
I know that humor certainly helps me take away the power of the things in my own life that feel heavy and difficult, so I’m really glad that I can help others do the same in any small way.
If people take anything away from my comics, I hope they leave them feeling less alone, less weird, and less alien. We’re all a bunch of ridiculous beings at heart, and life can get super serious… so
I hope my comics help people laugh, smile and embrace the weirdness.
My chronic pain does that. Too much housework and I'm in bed for days.
I've got a decal right on the glass of my front door that says "All guests must be approved by the cats" XD
I'm in all of these pictures, but I'm in this one in particular and I don't like it XD
Me when I found out being overly accommodating to others is NOT my personality and how I show love but is instead the trauma response of all the years of being abandoned emotionally by everyone around me during my childhood 💀
All I need to do is eat, sleep, and more eat and sleep, then I'm good.
🤣 Yeeeeah…. Getting less than six hours of sleep, is no good for me at all. Ideally, I would get at least seven, but that didn’t happen last night, either….
Note: this post originally had 50 images. It’s been shortened to the top 30 images based on user votes.
