“Yes, But”: Artist Creates A Series Of Illustrations That Depict Our Society’s Contradictions, And Here Are 23 Of The Newest Ones
Interview With ArtistIf you could bet on one thing it would be that you can always trust Anton Gudim's comic series "YES, BUT" to deliver some strong impact. The artist's limitless creativity concocts situations that not only are enough to make us laugh, but also reflect reality in a relatable, often poignant way. Gudim's knack for combining humor with an insightful look into everyday life and society ensures his work remains refreshingly engaging for his audience.
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Someone get the first guy a tik tok account and then he'll be unstoppable!
You might as well be able to solve world hunger but if you can't communicate? Good luck...
2: the ongoing demise of western civilization at the hands of communist China.
Seriously. TikTok is sketch as f**k and Americans are eating it up. I do not get it.
Load More Replies...As you might've guessed, we're back for yet another post featuring Gudim's newest work, this time with a fresh set of questions for Anton, the artist known for his clever and humorous "YES, BUT" comic series. You might remember our previous interviews with him, and now we're excited to delve a little deeper into the mind behind the artwork.
Anton gave us some insight into how his creative process works. He explained, "I’m always observing the world around me, taking note of interesting or paradoxical situations that I encounter. These observations often serve as the basis for my comics. As for my work environment, I can create pretty much anywhere as long as it's peaceful and I have the mental space to focus."
No more 'Ring Girls' now. Society finally realised that the casual objectification of people isn't cool..
While I can agree in general casual objectification is bad, I don't think it's bad when people consent to it. Especially in a professional setting where it's clear they specifically chose to use their body to make a profit. From what little I know from this, it sounds more like the second. Ironic the objectification of women was normalized from the start, but prostitution was discouraged.
Load More Replies...I was just gonna say.... Being bi so f*****g awesome.
Load More Replies...This ! who can work properly seated as the chair provides? there is always something wrong :)
Chair completely under the desk and keyboard as close as possible. Otherwise you'll regret it later :)
Load More Replies...Yeah, doesn't do any good to have an ergonomic chair when the table is not the right height and you don't have other peripherals to make the workstation ergonomic. Hell, I have an adjustable desk, but have to keep my chair up too high because the desk doesn't go low enough for my short legs to touch the floor!
This is why I often prefer to stand or kneel when I am at work, no matter what I’m doing. Slouching when sitting is remarkably tempting and I already need to correct my posture somewhat as it is!
Discussing the topic of criticism and the occasional negativity that comes with showcasing work on the internet, the artist showed an admirable approach. He told us, "Criticism is part of being a creative individual, especially when your work is shared on such a vast platform. I view every critique as an opportunity to grow and improve. However, it's crucial to distinguish between constructive criticism and simple negativity. If the critique is meaningful, it could potentially influence my future work, but I won't alter my style just due to personal dislike."
Exactly this happened to me in Venice. There were two entrances - regular line (free entry) and “skip-the-line” entrance. The former was of course longer, but it was free and no one had to check tickets, so it was FAST! “Skip-the-line” line was so slow, that the length of the line did not matter at all.
My family and I went to Disneyland about ten years go, we didn't get a pass. The regular line was ALWAYS empty and we got to the front very fast each time
I've seen this a few times. The regular line was actually faster lol.
Load More Replies...They really need to go back to one price and first come first serve. Put the work in to see your favorite artist.
And if the cell provider temporarily goes down, the 'phone dies or gets hacked ... I'll take paper. Every time.
Sleeping is my guess, I figured it was a homeless person
Load More Replies...When asked about any untapped topics or issues he plans to address in his comics, Anton kept things rather mysterious. "There are countless topics and issues I haven't touched upon yet but hope to in the future. Given the endless stream of contradictions and absurdities in our lives, there's no shortage of subjects to cover. However, I prefer to keep my plans under wraps. The surprise element of my comics, I believe, contributes to their appeal."
Some people prefer the rain. It doesn't try to burn my eyeballs out of my face.
It's a shame only Saturday and Sunday have perfect weather. Sun encourages stupid people to come outside.
Look man the song's not the vibe, the vibe is one particular song of the day played repeatedly
Sometimes those shuffles aren't as random as they could be, I remember my Ipod deciding that I needed to hear Same As It Ever Was by Talking Heads everytime I use it.
I don’t get it. That playlist for me is bottomless. Shuffle and go, bro.
Balancing a day job in engineering with his creative pursuits is a challenge, but Gudim is not one to let his job slow him down. He shared, "It can be quite a juggling act to manage my engineering job and art creation, but I find a way. In fact, having a non-artistic job is beneficial as it offers a breather from the creative process, allowing my ideas to brew at the back of my head. As for the influence of my engineering background on my art, I would say it introduces a level of precision and analytical thinking to my work. My comics, while seemingly ironic, are often the result of meticulous planning and execution."
Yeah I wish we could make them smaller :/ I have a 67W charger and while it does charge things very quickly I wish it wasn't the size of my fist
I wish my outlets weren't all near the floor. Would be much more useful a few feet up.
Use an outlet strip with a surge protector that has 8-10 outlets… PROBABLY solved.
Load More Replies...so everybody has to deal with these awkwardly designed things that steal all the plug space. the states has their own in this vein; american power sockets are now set up that plugs fit only in one direction and are flat to run down the wall, BUT the electrical industry now installs sockets with the ground UP and the polarized blade on the right so that the cord is bent in half and hanging down instead of flat against the wall :P
No that space is for my cat, you know what I’m on the floor the cat gets the rest
Thankfully my cat prefers it when I'm on the bed too. Mostly because she'd rather sleep right on top of me.
Load More Replies...Why "BUT", I adore my king size bed with an additional space for my belongings and legs! (I'm short, but prefer to sleep like a starfish)
as I kid I had a twin with only enough space absolutely needed to sleep (aka length of pillow). the rest was piled high with books
"Some people sleep all alone every night, 'stead of takin' a lover to bed..." -- Billy Joel, "An Innocent Man"
I tend to do this when I’m cleaning and the bed honestly belongs to my dog more than it does me!
i dont use plastic water bottles to fill my reusable bottle, my fridge has water in it so i just use that
who does this? if you buy a plastic water bottle you drink from it, no one buys water in a plastic bottle to pour it into a reusable bottle.
I do. Have you ever tried to unscrew the regular bottle while driving? I have sports spill-safe easily opened with one hand bottle for my car specifically.
Load More Replies...I have well water, but I have a salt softener. I've been drinking well water for so many years, I don't really taste the difference until I drink city water again. Coffee, tea, etc., it all tastes the same to me with the well water. That, and I have a water cooler with the reusable, recyclable water jugs you return to the store.
I did do this once, because I was in a place where I didn't know if the tap water was drinkable.
This is why I fill my water bottle once and go about my day after that! I can understand why some people might be concerned about drinking a specific type of water, though; I tend to drink filtered or springwater only because tap water actually gives me a stomachache and/or headache if I drink too much of it.
Tap water is perfectly safe in my country, it must be annoying to live somewhere where tap water isn't safe to drink.
Load More Replies...it's not safe to drink everywhere. In my area it tastes gross imo, so we filter our tap using giant Brita filters and keep it in the fridge so it's cold
Load More Replies...I vitnessed this once with my own eyes... Blew my mind needless to say.
I’ve done it before, I refilled my water bottle with water from a cooler while I was at a volunteer event with no other water. Desperate times call for desperate measures
Load More Replies...Fortune telling isn't about the future, it's mostly about giving someone attention. Just like chiropractors.
Although your comment was funny, giving attention to people actually works! Unlike chiropractors... :)
Load More Replies...Investing is tricky. It's not quite as bad as gambling, gambling is left all up to chance, investing is more predictable, but not always. If you buy stocks in let's say.... General Motors and the CEO tweets out something horrible like "We make cars not queermobiles" then their stock would probably take a deep dip. You have no control over it, but you can still look at a company, compare the data and predict whether or not it'll be doing well in the near future
Sounds like an ideal time to short GM stock. Then buy the dip with profits to collect on the bounce back.
Load More Replies...Yup. Psychics either don’t know what they’re talking about or they’re demonic, in my experience- both. I’ve known folks who have trusted them and learned the hard way not to do it (not me; a former friend comes to mind).
Yes, and it's hard to wash off - find lipstick on glasses and cups at restaurants all the time.
My lip gloss and lip balm... I have to take a drink, THEN apply the lip balm just to be sure.
People who travel in shorts or skirts have a level of confidence in the cleanliness of the seats I don’t have.
Also, she's laying down on the floor 🫣 no thank you 🤢
Load More Replies...(it's time for another episode of Poetry with Jocie!) She is beauty, she is grace, but the floor is on her face. She is glamour, she is slay, but her plane has been delayed. (This was poetry with Jocie.)
She is dumb as my thumb, just because her plane ain't come. Get that slug off the rug, And give her some coffee in a mug
Load More Replies...Whoever came up with glass walls and doors for toilets I hope you stub your toe daily
what? who poops and is like "man i wish she was here with me right now"... like wtf.
Professional swimmers shave off their body hair (when excessive), don't they?
Yeah, even just regular competitive swimmers. When people do that, it's mostly just so that their hair doesn't get straw-like from chlorine.
Load More Replies...My swimmer friend told me the cap is just to keep the hair more dry. That's what I use my cap for too.
This is also why my daughter uses it. Without it, her hair gets a lot of tangles and turns blonde (she's a brunette) from the chloride in the pool.
Load More Replies...Guy has too much hair all over. Hopefully somebody will clean that pool soon!!😕👎
yes, but this doesn't work... he's an average swimmer, and therefore wouldn't need a cap. he would also have his body shaved, and wouldn't be wearing loose shorts.... yes... but these pictures are declining in quality.
He is holding it tightly between his legs so it doesn’t “accidentally” backhand this btch eating in his baby.
Load More Replies...have you ever eaten a croissant. this is on him for saying "sure, eat one of the flakiest most available pastries in my car"... my man the quality
This looks more like a swarm of ants or something are attacking her to get the PRECIOUS
Funny, but sad, because it's true. Women have no clue about relationships.
And this is why we have manners. Or does a certain half of the population not have to adhere to those?
Load More Replies...I don't see a problem. If skateboarding leads you to better understand geometry go for it
Also, he thinks that it doesn't apply to real life but he uses while doing his passion.
Load More Replies...I asked my grandpa once to help me with algebra in high school. He said he couldn't. He quit school in 6th grade. I go out to get him from his shop later and he's doing algebra on a piece of wood. I got mad. "I thought you couldn't do algebra!?" He said I'm not, I'm cutting wood. I never was able to convince him that yes, that was algebra. He'd just laugh at me. Lol
They are unknowingly learning Geometry and wont understand until years later !
ah yes, everyone knows Tony Hawk the Academic and part time professional skateboarder.
well it's not the money but the feelings that matter and also the attention they put in deciding the gift
In OUR home, it’s OUR money. All of it. The point of it is the thoughtfulness and choosing a gift for the other. It’s how marriage works.
Many times in a *** marriage, all the money is pooled together. it is not his money, nor her money. Just because his name is on the card does not mean she does not pay the bills edit - good marriage upset some people
with my parents, they have their own accounts, and a pooled account. Their own account is normally to buy presents or just things for themselves, but they pay bills and buy groceries in the pooled account. Works great for them! But not all marriages have a pooled account. I think the "good marriage" part isn't true
Load More Replies...Bob probably didn't include that in his budget and will get a surprise at the end of the month.
I love a good very thoughtful heartfelt Amazon gift card, it's my favorite.
And the irony is that women will see this post and find nothing wrong with it. Parasites.
We only live once in this short life. But we were created as an immortal creation. We will be resurrected again as like grass is grown again after it dies.
Load More Replies...Either artist is into reincarnation or guy is passed out and hallucinating.
My daughter's sports teacher always wore heels and parked in parking spots for people with disabilities – she was a horrible person
My dad used to say that those people's handicap was that they were brain dead.
Load More Replies...that doesn't happen. "yes, but" art should use real life situations... if not no one can relate and you get people asking you what you were drinking when you thought this up.
I've had a gym teacher who didn't wear gym shoes. She.. didn't teach us much.
Load More Replies...What was with the school where navy blue and white was the dress code, but staff wore all kinds of colours??????
The public excuse is usually that it keeps lower-income children from being embarrassed or teased about their clothing. However, I've read that it is also used to prevent kids from wearing gang colors, but I don't how legitimate this claim is.
Load More Replies...So? You use gym shoes in gym area only, that's half of the point of having this rule (not to track dirt in the gym hall). You change to regular footwear outside of dedicated sports area. She's clearly doing a lecture, not training, so stop policing how she dresses.
That’s bc this is the femme Basketball coach that has a long-standing girlfriend that has attended all her basketball games since college #BasketballisLife
This is plain stupid and clearly comes from someone who never owned not only a car, but anything of value at all. Scratches can rust. Stickers will not.
Depending on the damage of my cars I do stuff like this, I had an MX6 with a zip tie stitched bumper and liked it more than when it was a fresh new bumper. Some people will even do the zip tie stitch just cause they want it.
But it looks ghetto on a car that looks good everywhere else, just sayin’… and yes I’m a Car Chick!!!
Load More Replies...There's a difference. Actual scrathes on your car can leave the metal parts uncovered leading them to rusting. The sticker on the other hand doesn't affect it in any way and looks way better thanna mark saying "i can't drive"
Don't you also grow crops just for the rabbits to get all of them?
Load More Replies...Don't worry, the rabbit will be fine! Rabbits eat grass and clover, which is abundant everywhere, that farm probably even has a pasture for cows full of grass. That bunny won't starve, and plus it only eats the top leaves, unlike peter rabbit, they don't have the strength to pull carrots out of the ground anyways.
Load More Replies...I have a lifted garden with mesh walls to keep bunnies, squirrels, and other animals OUT. My vegetables are not for them. The cuttings that don't make it to the compost are.
You think bunnies want to eat garbage even if it's organic?! 😕🤨
Load More Replies...Well if you eat the bunny too then you don't have to worry about it starving
I've earned those wrinkles. I'm not going to hide them.
Load More Replies...Ugh, people get old, get over it, especially media. Nobody has to look perfect when they age
Their called laugh lines for a reason. Fun loving people have them.
This is so stupid. Wrinkles are natural. I like my wrinkles, and adore my wife's "happy wrinkles". Aging is normal, people who doesn't accept it aren't. 🤷
The bunny one was especially stupid. Bunnies don't mainly eat vegetables they eat grass and clover. Seriously, that farm probably has a pasture for cows FULL of grass and clover.
Comics? YES, BUT... Clearly made by a conservative straight white male who grew up within a privileged Christian household and CLEARLY continues to hold misogynistic, homophobic, racist, xenophobic views... the bitterness SEEPS out of his work. Only he knows how the world works best... BUT nobody listens... and that's why the world is SOOO awful! 🙄
Apt name...were these illustrations good? "Yes, but..."
The bunny one was especially stupid. Bunnies don't mainly eat vegetables they eat grass and clover. Seriously, that farm probably has a pasture for cows FULL of grass and clover.
Comics? YES, BUT... Clearly made by a conservative straight white male who grew up within a privileged Christian household and CLEARLY continues to hold misogynistic, homophobic, racist, xenophobic views... the bitterness SEEPS out of his work. Only he knows how the world works best... BUT nobody listens... and that's why the world is SOOO awful! 🙄
Apt name...were these illustrations good? "Yes, but..."
