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“I just want to make others laugh.” That’s what Joseph Nowak, a cartoonist based in Berlin, Germany, once told us when asked about his work. Since then, we’ve shared many of his comic strips, which have always been hugely popular with our community – and for good reason.

That’s why, in this post, we’re highlighting some of Nowak’s best strips. So without further ado, scroll down and enjoy a fresh look at the most upvoted ones we’ve selected for you today.

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#1

Humorous one-panel comic by Joseph Nowak showing angry and really angry octopus characters with expressive faces.

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Octopissed

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    Humorous one-panel comic by Joseph Nowak showing a scared character in bed with a large blue monster under it.

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    1 year ago

    I can *absolutely* see Tim Burton filming this.

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    #3

    Crow solving a complex maze with a straight red line, humorously questioning the expert level in a one-panel comic style.

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    1 year ago

    He also needs to mark all the places along his flight path where he will p00p.

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    #4

    Humorous one-panel comic showing hooded figures playing unstable Jenga with a person standing on top of the tower.

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    1 year ago (edited)

    (Looks up at victim - "Hey! Quit trembling! You're making this unstable!")

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    #5

    Colorful piñata in a hospital gown receiving an IV bag filled with candy in a humorous one-panel comic style.

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    1 year ago

    And his wounds are scabbed over with red gummy candies.

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    #6

    Humorous one-panel comic showing a pigeon entering an outdoor wooden toilet with a stone bust inside.

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    1 year ago

    The training outhouse

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    #7

    Humorous one-panel comic showing a grim reaper cat offering a bingo card to a ghost cat at night.

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    11 months ago

    😹😹😹😹😹😹😹😹😹

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    #8

    Humorous one-panel comic showing a rock, paper, and scissors in a fight ring with cheering spectators.

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    Just like the final showdown of The Good The Bad and The Ugly. Cue Ennio's music

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    #9

    Humorous one-panel comic by Joseph Nowak showing a person with a shark fin and another in a floatie spotting the head.

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    Bill Swallow
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    1 year ago

    More and more these days, we're finding examples of animals being Tool Users. (Even - shades of Gary Larson! - *Cows* are getting into the act!)

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    #10

    Humorous one-panel comic by Joseph Nowak showing three characters with different views on a blank picture frame.

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    1 year ago

    Well, icey what they are looking at

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    #11

    One-panel comic by Joseph Nowak showing people absorbed in phones next to a bug zapper with humorous caption.

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    Mike F
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    1 year ago

    How funny. Too true.

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    #12

    Humorous one-panel comic showing restoration of the Great Sphinx with workers lifting a large cup over its head.

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    1 year ago

    First things first...

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    #13

    Humorous one-panel comic showing a group walking between parted seas with fish creating an unexpected scene.

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    12 months ago

    Also, quite a lot of fish will fall out of the water later on. And there are plants at the bottom that probably can't handle being out of the water.

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    #14

    Humorous one-panel comic showing a fish standing on wooden legs above water titled Sam's Baptism.

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    1 year ago

    Love this.

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    #15

    Humorous one-panel comic by Joseph Nowak showing clouds with faces discussing a cloud shaped like a pear.

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    1 year ago

    Well, that's different. I think most clouds say we look like idiots.

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    Humorous one-panel comic showing a frog telling a doctor not to worry about being gentle during an exam.

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    11 months ago

    OOOOOOHHHHH MY FREAKING GOODNESS!!!!! XD

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    #17

    Humorous one-panel comic by Joseph Nowak showing two sumo wrestlers with a funny insult exchange.

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    #18

    Humorous one-panel comic by Joseph Nowak depicting a flying saucer and alien tea set floating in the night sky.

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    1 year ago

    Now I understand why Pink Floyd was originally called the Tea Set. (True fact).

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    #19

    One-panel comic by Joseph Nowak showing a Native American carving a totem pole with animals stacked, humorously saying hold still.

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    1 year ago

    No wonder they always look so angry.

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    #20

    Fish with human legs standing on shore saying I'm going to be somebody in humorous one-panel comics by Joseph Nowak.

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    1 year ago

    As Gil's legs buckle and his fins flap, he gasps, "when out of the sea it's U before E..."

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    #21

    Humorous one-panel comic of a person dressed as Wolverine sharpening claws on a cat scratching post with a cat nearby.

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    1 year ago

    Yes, but does Wolverine get hairballs?

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    Humorous one-panel comic by Joseph Nowak showing cavemen with eye chart and pun about perfect eyes.

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    #23

    Humorous one-panel comic by Joseph Nowak showing a shocked man with a wooden puppet of a woman on a workbench.

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    1 year ago

    Watch out for splinters

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    #24

    Humorous one-panel comic by Joseph Nowak showing three talking bicycles with a speech bubble saying Mom, dad, I'm bi.

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    😁😁

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    #25

    Humorous one-panel comic by Joseph Nowak showing Pinocchio in a straitjacket repeating he is not a real boy.

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    1 year ago

    Brutal

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    #26

    Porcupine humor cartoon by Joseph Nowak shows a porcupine inflating a patched-up spiky balloon pig with a pump.

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    https://youtu.be/rW7xv1fs2Jw?si=49686zSXdyXBOdFN

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    #27

    Humorous one-panel comic by Joseph Nowak showing a man with a hat saying never mind to snake-like hair on a wall.

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    Thus ended his romantic asp-irations

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    #28

    Humorous one-panel comic of a raccoon with a human arm in a quirky, surreal outdoor scene by Joseph Nowak.

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    1 year ago

    Davy Crockett rued the day he encountered Rocket.

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    #29

    Eagle humorously looking at its reflection in a mirror with a thought bubble in a one-panel comic style.

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    12 months ago

    *Seagull-like noise*

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    #30

    Man wearing a green plaid shirt enters a store without pants in a humorous one-panel comic by Joseph Nowak.

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    1 year ago

    Thank you BP for censoring cartoon butt. It might have aroused some prurient interest in someone. (not me, no, I swear)

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    #31

    Shark reading newspaper underwater, surrounded by mounted scuba masks and diving equipment in humorous comic style.

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    His friend the hammerhead mounts the trophies for him.

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    #32

    Humorous one-panel comic by Joseph Nowak showing sinking wooden ship with animals and a funny thought bubble.

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    1 year ago

    Poor Noah.

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    #33

    Humorous one-panel comic shows a surgeon preparing to neuter a cartoon cat saying Eraser in an operating room.

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    1 year ago

    Or use surgically-applied Dip.

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    #34

    Humorous one-panel comic showing a muscular Pikachu with a helmet while a man in uniform flips a switch.

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    1 year ago

    "Waikin' the mile . . ."

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    #35

    Humorous one-panel comic by Joseph Nowak featuring a coyote eating a roasted bird with a purple head.

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    Switching from Acme to Nike was a good move.

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    #36

    Robot performs stand-up comedy on stage with confused audience in a humorous one-panel comic by Joseph Nowak.

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    1 year ago

    QR - so I said, "no doc, not THOSE nuts"

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    #37

    Person with curly red hair in bed reading a humorous one-panel comic book titled Getting Out of Bed for Dummies.

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    1 year ago

    I need that book!

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    #38

    Yellow bird flying while imagining a bomber plane dropping bombs in a humorous one-panel comic style.

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    1 year ago

    Nice Lancaster!

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    #39

    Humorous one-panel comic showing a worker cleaning Superman’s symbol, calling it his second weakness.

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    1 year ago

    'Man of Steel'. Not 'Man of Stainless Steel'. (James Bolivar DiGriz, on the other hand, is quite safe.)

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    #40

    Humorous one-panel comic shows a woman telling a cat to stop catcalling while it holds a telephone receiver.

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