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A Stroke of Genius

Turns out smelling burnt toast as precursor to a stroke is a myth. But I didn’t know that when I conceived of this one.
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Stop the Steal

Dumb little comic inspired by the somewhat ungrammatical “Stop the steal” protests. Update: My favorite thing about this is that YouTube put up a little “this may be misleading” warning. Robots don’t understand irony.
image from The Parabola of the Loaves and Fishes

The Parabola of the Loaves and Fishes

Dumb little pun based on the Parable of the Loaves and Fishes aka “Feeding the multitude”, the purported miracle in which Jesus fed thousands of people with some small number of loaves of bread and fish.
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Early Retirement

This was inspired by two of my siblings as yet another pun comic. For this to make much sense at all you need to know that FIRE = Financial Independence Retire Early. I had a very hard time with the actual art this time - I know there’s no chair behind the woman but no matter what I tried it looked wrong. So use your imagination. I think I’ve gotten rusty from taking time off.
image from Bottom of the Barrel

Bottom of the Barrel

Time lapse:
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Truth in Advertising

Many of these are based on real world tactics and advertisements. Photo / ad references: Time limited sale - https://optinmonster.com/fomo-marketing-examples-to-boost-sales/ Fear of missing out - https://optinmonster.com/fomo-marketing-examples-to-boost-sales/ Fake dress purchase - https://webtransparency.cs.princeton.edu/dark-patterns/ The gross thing is a lot of these are being peddled as best practice. Time lapse:
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The Red Badge of Courage

Allusions: “Suckers” - reference to Trump: Americans Who Died in War Are ‘Losers’ and ‘Suckers’ “I like guys who weren’t captured” - reference to Trump attacks McCain: ‘I like people who weren’t captured’ “Bonespur” - Did a Queens Podiatrist Help Donald Trump Avoid Vietnam? The rest I made up. Photo reference (trump at Podium) credit: Brendan Smialowski. Photo reference (hand holding medal) credit: Sarah Blansett Time lapse:
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Waiting Game

Inspired by true life events. A few weeks ago about 3 smoke alarms all went off at various points in the night needing their batteries changed. Not the best way to be woken up, especially not multiple times in a row! Kudos to my wife for the title and feedback throughout the creation process. Time lapse: I’m missing the first drawing session from the time lapse, but ah well.
image from Set for Life

Set for Life

Here’s a timelapse of the creation process: Kudos to my wife for the suggestion of ‘Set For Life’ as a title.
image from Rocky Road

Rocky Road

I keep seeing these painted rocks on my walks with various bromides. I thought it might be funny to imagine a more apt/necessary message. All of these were based on real rocks I saw, with the exception of the message on the last rock (in reality it said, “Stay Safe!”). Timelapse:
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