In addition to creating relatable skeleton artwork, I also run this daily comic which follows Lifeless Carl as he reluctantly navigates the afterlife. He deals with the typical struggles like work, mental health, and just trying to exist, or not.
I have always loved and wanted to create a comic, and this idea came from a first, single drawing of Carl. His personification of my funnier quirks made him the perfect relatable creation from which to launch a comic strip.
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... No one made the joke yet, so I will. He doesn't have eyes! So, he can pet the cat!
I've never felt more alive laughing at 'Never Been Deader'! Your cartoons are absolutely brilliant—your imagination is incredible. I really admire your unique sense of humor. I honestly wish I could own the entire collection, but I'm a bit short on funds right now. Still, I just wanted to say thank you for creating something that truly brightened my day!
i love your work. It is outstanding. The sense of humor, the characters, everything!! Thank you!!
Carl’s morbid yet relatable sense of humor makes him the perfect balance for dark comedy. I do my best to keep my jokes light with sarcasm while still delving into the more taboo, sinister inner monologues of everyday people and ideas which are often thought of but rarely voiced.
i hate when people ar elike get an actual job like um NO SHARON i need to kill Carl tonight and he doesn't drink or drive alone
I am in this comic.... I feel like a lot of people forget they have steering wheels and they forget how to read/recognize shapes when it comes to road signs.
What I'd like to know is why people who live in areas where it snows EVERY DAMN YEAR... for 6 months out of said year... without fail drive like they've never seen snow in their lives & this freaky white stuff magically falling out of the sky means they have to drive like it's lava that's specifically targeting them. ~~~ Then within a week they all drive like it's 85° on a clear, sunny, dry day with a completely empty road ahead of them... even though it's actually blizzarding at 7pm in rush hour traffic.
Load More Replies...This is true, I'll be walking in a grocery store and the person in front of me knows I'm behind them, but they'll stop mid-aisle to look at something and give me the death stare if I move their cart out of the way to get by.
Load More Replies...Pet peeve: people who buy extra long RVs and can't handle them. They can't drive that 30 ft motor home. Can't back up a trailer. Cut you off on the interstate because they can't judge distance, even with the camera. Suggestion folks: start with the small ones first.
The biggest challenge I face when creating this comic is ensuring that while infusing my humor, I am also making something that is relatable. I accomplish this by rewriting jokes to the point where I feel they will best put a little humorous darkness in my readers’ days.
And the worst part is you never clean under there so they're basically dead
Love this little detail of standing outside the frame. Really awesome.
Agreed. Probably self roasted, slave free produced one Pl Tage coffee that he self imports. Whenever I drink something like that (sans the roasting, I'm no good at that) I do feel as if I was breaking the mold myself.
Load More Replies...This isn't relatable, this is just a downloaded personality to fill in your lack of one, sad!
I hope that readers enjoy my dark humor that spills from every strip and that they can find comfort and solace in the relatability of Carl’s daily struggles.
Indeed. Setting more fire on hell, of you follow the classic descriptions and demonogia, will only enhance it's fires. Same with freezing. YOU MIGHT.... want to try to teletubby it down. But Our mind will likely double die doing so.
Yea but what if we put put all the fires at once it could explode or mabey it would just be really dark and cool for about 5 seconds
i know im a cool blooded killer but a laser pointer is more interesting( oh and for the cat too)
Make it a shiny fibre optic lamp and I'm entertained for hours. The cats love it too.
Load More Replies...We're working on it, I swear. The zombies are an unfortunate side effect of research, though. Minor bump in the road of progress.
I have a one word answer for anxiety: XANAX. Ok, maybe one more: WEED. Both modern answers to life's little problems. Lol.
Nah I'm gonna be real most people shouldn't do xanax due to it causing dependency and it doesn't solve the problem it puts a bandaid on it basically. Weed is nice sometimes but it also can make the anxiety worse for a lot of people
Load More Replies...Showing this to my doctor later today since she's forever telling me to go out in the world. PS- I love that the therapist's feet stick straight out from the chair.
well maybe he's really talking to a mirror and we just happen to be the creeps in the mirror every time so it looks like he's talking to us but really we're all just skeletons on the inside...
Load More Replies...Please start t-shirt production with these one panel, gold IS waiting.
Free therapy sucks. Paid one sucks you dry. CHOOSE!!!
Load More Replies...Why does the drive into work take so long, while the drive home is so short?
wait till he gets to my level, then the whole week hits, I can hear it outside my door hitting it with axes trying to get me right now... I will only last 2 days before it brakes in... I hate weekdays most
I don't hate Mondays, Mondays hate me. Not gonna let a calenders dictate my life
I prefer to think of myself as a 70 year old tire pile fire on the edge of town.
or hear me out the blood and bone marrow of my victims ( pickled obviously im not a monster) edit: spelling mistakes thanks to Sean for pointing it out
I can't stop seeing it as the tape being his teeth and the nose bring an upside down soul patch.
honestly i thought the "tape" on the "new guys" glasses were his teeth and the line there was the mouth and he had a super small face lol
Usually, that "bad luck" puke on the rug is about the same size as your bare foot at 3am.
i have a dog that seizes, before he does it , he usually pukes, so he has his own lil puke pad hidden, he runs to me grabs me, runs to it and I take a blanket and hold him over it till he pukes then cuddle him away from it as he seizes, he's old now and he has had it since birth, his older brother used to take him to the pad, but that dog passed due to old age and I do it for this one now, hits only "bad luck" if he dont make it to the pad lol
Awhh poor baby i hope the times he doesnt have seizures is filled with love and fun times ❤️
Load More Replies...My black cat and my tabby, half brothers, usually share the work 3 to 1ish. But we'll..... True.
Chocolate and alcohol... Wine or anything else like vodka... Cheese is also a plus
Load More Replies...EVERYONE at my job feels secure right now. They literally can't afford to lose even ONE person, one pair of hands.. this place is running us ragged
All cats are wee bastards. It's part of their genetic makeup. That, and the inability to throw up anywhere where I'm NOT likely to step barefooted.
Load More Replies...I just realized newbie is a skeleton, and that is his nose hole, not his mouth
Anyone else think the triangle was the mouth at first i just realized its the thing that looks like stiches 🤣
