Hey, the site’s back online finally, and the new comic’s up too. No walls of text this time though. ROWNTREE WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU?! TS;DR
-WR
UPDATE:
OKAY! Even Topatoco have requested that this be a poster, so it’s on the way, the wheels are in motion, etc. Stay tuned for an announcement, and thanks for the requests, it’s the way things get made into posters, i reckon.
*UPDATE #2*: Via the power of democracy, the poster is now available! It’s been reshaped to be a more manageable shape as opposed to the super long and thin format of the original, which i figured was the way to go. Thanks again for the requests, it’s been a hell of a thing to read so many people saying “i want a poster of this,” and i’m just really glad y’alls liked the comic so much. As for me, i got some walls of text to work on, so i’ll see you later…
high fives all around,
wr
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September 9, 2010 at 2:59 am
Love this one! Made me feel good.
September 9, 2010 at 3:04 am
*golf clap*
Beautiful, thoughful, simple yet meaningful. Excellent comic. Thank you for that Mr Rowntree.
September 9, 2010 at 3:13 am
Mr. Rowntree –
Long-time reader, first-time poster… this is one of your best comics to date… top 10, I think. Thanks for all the great work!
Also, you should apologize for comic-interruptus less often… it’s just great for us to get comics at all.
September 9, 2010 at 9:16 pm
Thanks for posting! But i Really hate to miss updates, so the apologies will doubtless continue…
September 9, 2010 at 3:18 am
I’m keeping my browser window open to this… forever.
April 3, 2011 at 2:54 pm
that was the same thought i had:)
September 9, 2010 at 3:23 am
this actually made my day, and put a smile on my face. Thank you, you’re awesome!
September 9, 2010 at 3:49 am
A heartwarming comic indeed, right up there with “And they tell me there are people who are normal, but […] I’ve never met one […] so why not compare yourself to real people instead.”
The “How closely they are scrutinizing you” panel reminds me of something an actor friend told me about a course she was teaching on “Overcoming Shyness.” She said that shy people often assume that wherever they go, everyone’s looking at them, which is, as you say here, generally not the case.
September 9, 2010 at 9:16 pm
Speaking from experience, that’s definitely the deal with shyness. I guess this was just the comic i wish i’d read like 15 years ago.
September 9, 2010 at 3:53 am
I love this one, especially the very imaginative artwork filled with the sorts of creatures that I like to draw myself (when I feel I can get away with it).
Did I see a Yorp?
September 9, 2010 at 4:20 am
*Rolls eyes*
What’s it say about the world, that I look at the first two panels and assume it’s a putdown to the Conspiracy Theorist crowd?
Good comic.
September 9, 2010 at 4:52 am
It would make a good poster for what it’s worth. Very great yo.
September 9, 2010 at 4:53 am
This put a smile on my face. I’ve been feeling some version of all those exaggerated assumptions for a little too long now. It’s really something to read a total stranger’s thoughts reflect my inner feelings and also express the positive counterpoint I know I need to hear. It’s why I read/watch/listen to anything and it’s specifically why I always read your comic. Thanks.
Also, I love the animation style of this one. All those wonderfully unique creatures are really endearing somehow.
September 9, 2010 at 5:14 am
I feel pretty much **** for all my trouble right now with my lost job etc…. but you might be right and maybe (hopefully) its all less of a problem than it seems…. thx man
September 9, 2010 at 5:26 am
Wow. If you made a poster of this, I would buy it.
September 9, 2010 at 5:46 am
Me too on the poster thing! Poster poster!
September 9, 2010 at 6:06 am
Timely.
September 9, 2010 at 6:24 am
I REALLY want a poster of this, maybe 600. Please consider it, and let us know if you decide to do it.
September 9, 2010 at 6:27 am
awesome!!!
September 9, 2010 at 6:40 am
Thank you! I loved the visual metaphor with the rain and fire. You’re wonderful at getting your message across, so subtly yet with such impact.
September 9, 2010 at 6:49 am
I like you.
September 9, 2010 at 6:54 am
cool stuff 🙂
September 9, 2010 at 6:54 am
Brilliant! This should be translated into every language and spread to the four corners of the Earth!
September 9, 2010 at 6:55 am
I just had an exhausting day. Soo exhausting. Blah. This here comic cheered me right up. Thanks a lot. No, seriously, thanks a lot a lot a lot.
September 9, 2010 at 7:02 am
😀
September 9, 2010 at 7:05 am
HOLY CRAP…. that beaver is a quest giver
September 9, 2010 at 7:11 am
That’s beautiful. Truely art. Thank you!
September 9, 2010 at 7:32 am
This is a brilliant piece of artwork, and the message is wonderful, as are so many of your pieces.
This would go down well as a poster too! Just saying.
Keep up the good work sir!
September 9, 2010 at 7:39 am
Thanks 🙂
September 9, 2010 at 7:39 am
Absolutely Beautiful. So true.
September 9, 2010 at 7:47 am
I just want to say I am stunned, and in flipping through your archives I found that you’ve done most of the strange obscure comics I’ve stumbled on that have stunned me. (WEIRD, the signs one, the creative process, etc)
You truly do have a unique voice, and one that I will be paying attention to, glad to know who’s singing with it.
September 9, 2010 at 7:57 am
Thank you! It’s always nice to find a comic waiting, and frankly they’ve all been good! Congratulations and keep up the good work!
September 9, 2010 at 7:59 am
really super cool.
Love the guy in the rain.
Keep up the good work!
September 9, 2010 at 8:15 am
Really good comic, made me think.
Keep up the good work!
September 9, 2010 at 8:23 am
Agree with everyone who said this should be a poster.
September 9, 2010 at 8:34 am
Just great.
September 9, 2010 at 8:47 am
You really need to make this a poster. I would love to put it up on my res floor and my room. I know another friend who would love to do the same!
September 9, 2010 at 8:53 am
Thoughtful and poignant. Great comic!
September 9, 2010 at 9:05 am
As usual, much thought inside each panel.
Keep up the excellent work.
September 9, 2010 at 9:20 am
Fantastic! Thank you
September 9, 2010 at 9:42 am
monstrously good! You always draw monsters so well. these ones are particularly likeable!
Made my day! Thank you!
September 9, 2010 at 9:50 am
“SUBI6I”?
The “how fortunate you might be” helped calm me down a bit after unexpected complications with my eye surgery. I’m starting to think, things could have been a lot worse. Thanks for that 🙂
September 9, 2010 at 9:12 pm
SUB161 just means it’s the 161th SUBnormality. And Very best wishes with your recovery, coming from someone who fears blindness over all things…
September 13, 2010 at 10:53 am
Thanks! The eye is already getting better 🙂
September 9, 2010 at 10:37 am
Wow, you’re just getting better and better.
September 9, 2010 at 10:44 am
Absoultely perfect.
My day is now made. We all need a little perspective sometimes.
September 9, 2010 at 10:53 am
A visitor from Spain here. Just came to say how talented you are; after reading this one strip I’m convinced that you have a gift. I rarely see a comic done with such intelligence and wit and so touching as this one, so please keep on keeping on!
September 9, 2010 at 10:58 am
Thanks for this wonderful depiction of what so many feel like !
September 9, 2010 at 10:58 am
Fantastic Comic! This makes me feel good,
September 9, 2010 at 11:13 am
yay. awesome, keep up the great work!
September 9, 2010 at 11:14 am
Could I have your permission to blog this?
September 9, 2010 at 9:10 pm
Yup!
September 9, 2010 at 11:24 am
You actually made me cry…
September 9, 2010 at 11:24 am
Always funny but finally you did it. You made one that emotes feelings dude you made art.
September 9, 2010 at 11:35 am
Also, me wants a poster, too.
September 9, 2010 at 12:02 pm
So damned true!
A poster of this should be hung on the wall of every common area in every elementary, middle & high school.
Poster it. I’ll buy some.
September 9, 2010 at 12:05 pm
Fantastic, love it!
September 9, 2010 at 12:13 pm
This is absolutely outstanding. It’s the kind of reality spoonful that my pesimism would need every morning.
Also: needs poster now.
September 9, 2010 at 12:33 pm
I would buy this in a heartbeat as a poster, as would a good many others on reddit.
September 9, 2010 at 12:53 pm
thanks for this. i really needed it.
September 9, 2010 at 1:12 pm
“This has been made for me !
…
Well, for me and…for a lot of people, i guess.”
One of your best comics. Moving and accurate.
September 9, 2010 at 1:13 pm
Also, I would buy a print of it.
September 9, 2010 at 1:20 pm
Amazing, are there prints available?
September 9, 2010 at 1:30 pm
aww, so cute
September 9, 2010 at 1:33 pm
I would buy this as a poster as well. As a teacher, it would be awesome to put on a wall in a middle/high school class. Would it be ok to do this on my own? (Probably would have to put a bikini on the chic monster in the TV to not upset parents…)
September 9, 2010 at 1:44 pm
I like this comic a lot because it’s 90% picture and 10% words instead of the other way around.
September 9, 2010 at 1:54 pm
This one should be a poster, seriously! I would buy it.
September 9, 2010 at 2:22 pm
While some of the comics are weird, others are excellent thoughts. Please continue the excellent work.
September 9, 2010 at 2:24 pm
This needs to be a poster now! I’d buy this print instantly if available.
September 9, 2010 at 2:25 pm
Wow I can see others have thought like I do. I am a teacher in high school here in Norway and I would like to translate this and put it on the walls. Is there a way I can support you by paying for a high quality PDF file somehow ? Buying a poster would be a bit silly as I need to change the text any way, the language is a bit hard for some of the students, even in high school here in Norway.
September 9, 2010 at 2:47 pm
Please make this available as a poster! I want this on my classroom walls too!
September 9, 2010 at 2:40 pm
If this was a poster, I would buy in a heart beat.
September 9, 2010 at 2:40 pm
I would purchase this as a poster!
September 9, 2010 at 2:56 pm
The internets demand a poster!
September 9, 2010 at 3:05 pm
Another nice one holmes.
September 9, 2010 at 3:14 pm
Loved it.
September 9, 2010 at 3:14 pm
So true!! Really, really awesome insights and poignant. Thank you.
September 9, 2010 at 3:21 pm
Thank you.
September 9, 2010 at 3:22 pm
I’d buy a poster of this in a second!
September 9, 2010 at 3:55 pm
Yes. Please. Poster. Did I say please?
September 9, 2010 at 3:55 pm
more people need to see this! loved it!
September 9, 2010 at 4:07 pm
Hey Winston. I would really love it if I could have the monster in panel 3 “self-assured-assumed-others” on a t-shirt. I would really love it.
September 9, 2010 at 4:22 pm
You ought to make this a poster. It just made the front page of reddit under the headline, “Now this is a comic that needs to be available as a poster. It is f*cking awesome.”
September 9, 2010 at 9:08 pm
Yeah, i’m bowing to the pressure as we speak, so stay tuned for an announcement…
September 9, 2010 at 4:29 pm
this is great!
September 9, 2010 at 4:33 pm
Thanks winston, this made my day
September 9, 2010 at 4:54 pm
Really freakin great! I’m with everyone else on the poster. Email me when it comes out! This could be the best random fb link ever.
September 9, 2010 at 5:05 pm
this is really nice…good work
check my art
http://collendubose.tumblr.com
September 13, 2010 at 8:36 am
Kindly go and choke. Winston’s site isn’t a place for you to advertise.
September 9, 2010 at 5:07 pm
Excellent strip! I always like your work, but this is the best one in a while!
September 9, 2010 at 5:08 pm
And I agree that this strip would make an excellent poster. I’d buy one.
September 9, 2010 at 5:14 pm
PLEASE make this a poster! PLEASE!!??!!?
September 9, 2010 at 5:28 pm
Long time reader, first-time commenter… your stuff is really great! Keep up the terrific work. Some of your comics have changed my outlook, no joke.
September 9, 2010 at 6:03 pm
Truly great stuff, thanks for this.
September 9, 2010 at 6:05 pm
that shits kool and funny you FUCKIN ROCK DUDE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
September 9, 2010 at 6:09 pm
I love your monster designs. Have you ever thought about doing concept art for game development? There’s tons of indie developers out there who want to have this kind of meaningful visual style in their games, but don’t seem to know how.
September 9, 2010 at 9:07 pm
I’d love to do something like that actually (needing ways to earn $ via art), but i would have no idea where to start and thus i doubt it’ll happen.
September 9, 2010 at 6:37 pm
Amazing. It made me happy.
September 9, 2010 at 6:41 pm
Love this work. Want it on a poster really badly. Any plans for that? Thanks again for helping me feel less small, lonely and defeated.
September 9, 2010 at 7:08 pm
Awww…I love the monsters!
September 9, 2010 at 7:42 pm
This needs to be a poster I can buy and hang places. That or I’m making my own.
September 9, 2010 at 7:44 pm
Respect
September 9, 2010 at 8:00 pm
Seems that you’re growing quite a fanbase… obviously because of the great work!
September 9, 2010 at 8:27 pm
Poster please 🙂
September 9, 2010 at 8:37 pm
Make this into a poster, stat!
September 10, 2010 at 2:27 pm
agreed!!!!
September 9, 2010 at 8:37 pm
Hey, nice job WR. Profound.
September 9, 2010 at 8:38 pm
(Warning, this comment sounds unbelievably poncey, pretentious, and just really bad..)
You say a lot more when you say less. At least when you’re not using people, because you capture people perfectly, or at least their thought process, just long streams of doubt and anger. That may just be me though..
Anyway, love the social commentary, you’re amazing, the art helps too, makes any message less dried out.
September 9, 2010 at 8:55 pm
Did he died?
September 9, 2010 at 9:02 pm
OKAY! Even Topatoco have requested that this be a poster, so it’s on the way, the wheels are in motion, etc. Stay tuned for an announcement, and thanks for the requests, it’s the way things get made into posters, i reckon.
September 9, 2010 at 9:04 pm
Superb comic. Right on.
September 9, 2010 at 9:23 pm
Here are several concepts that I’ve slowly been learning over the last few years, but can’t often put into words. Love it.
Also, LOVED seeing your GREAT WORK on Cracked.com!
September 9, 2010 at 9:24 pm
u da best
September 9, 2010 at 9:31 pm
I’ve been reading your comics for a while and one of the main reasons I like them is because they have a strange type of optimism (well most of them anyway). Keep up the good work mate 🙂
September 9, 2010 at 9:46 pm
Thank You!
September 9, 2010 at 10:19 pm
An excellent thing to read with a virus riddled head and still a full day of work yet to complete before the weekend.
Here’s hoping for rain 🙂
September 9, 2010 at 10:20 pm
drop the sexuality pane, and send it to a children’s book publisher. with only slight tweaks, would be a *great* book for kids ages 6-10
September 13, 2010 at 8:04 am
don’t drop the sexuality panel. kids have to deal with that shit too, and why should heteronormative be the only message out there?
September 15, 2010 at 12:02 am
^Yes, agreed. I wanted to say something, but you got the phrasing better than i could. The sexuality bit is the last one i’d drop, i’ll say that.
September 18, 2010 at 10:27 pm
The sexuality one is perfect. It beautifully describes the situation in a way that could be applied the same way to religious opinion, politics, and so on.
You don’t even need to understand what sex is to get it.
October 22, 2010 at 6:29 pm
The sexuality pane struck me the most. If you really must be so conservative about it, make the age more like 12-14. They’ve seen worse by that age, trust me.
September 9, 2010 at 10:56 pm
this makes me feel better
thank you for describing life through your art
it makes it that much less scary
September 9, 2010 at 11:42 pm
I dont what to say, in one moment of glorious truth, all my anxieties of the day left. Ive been reading Subnormality for a while, but this one just spoke to me. It would be awesome to see more like this.
September 10, 2010 at 1:00 am
gah! when you want to be moving, YOU REALLY DO IT! i think i love all the serious ones just as much, if not more, than the funny ones…im gettin a print lol!
September 10, 2010 at 1:03 am
as many of your comics, this one made me feel like i’m not alone (yes…i’m still in that fase in life where i think i’m dealing with everything by myself 😡 )
it made me feel at ease…and since i’m going to bed right now,tonight i’m not going to question every decision i’ve made so far xD
thanks for the wonderful comic
(oh…with walls of text or no walls of text your comics are great, but i prefer walls of text)
September 10, 2010 at 1:24 am
I have been reading your comics for a little while now so I wanted to tell you that this one is so simple and beautiful! It really made me smile!
PS I love you wordy comics, too!
September 10, 2010 at 1:44 am
Damned good pick-me-up. I enjoyed it.
September 10, 2010 at 1:46 am
wow. ❤
September 10, 2010 at 1:55 am
This was really cool. Thanks for making it.
September 10, 2010 at 3:59 am
Now that was a pick me up I really needed. 🙂
September 10, 2010 at 4:12 am
Please make a poster of this.
September 10, 2010 at 4:23 am
This is, plain and simple, excellence. Witty, deep, surprising. Hard to hit all three of those at once. I’ve read a lot of your stuff and have never failed to be impressed, but this I think is the fabled rare masterpiece.
September 10, 2010 at 5:01 am
Brilliant work, Winston. The only way it could of possibly been better is with PHG.
September 10, 2010 at 6:25 am
Maybe I’m just slow but can someone explain the gist of the sexuality panels to me? (I think I have an idea but I can’t quite explain it)
September 10, 2010 at 7:26 am
Oops I somehow didn’t notice there’s a reply link. I put my reply in the next comment.
September 10, 2010 at 9:28 am
I had trouble understanding it as well. If you read out the colours, it is “black and white” vs “shades of grey”.
The people on the right aren’t mixing attributes (would be: sphere head with one eye) but rather blending them (round-ish head with two eyes).
It presumably has to do with the Kinsey scale as om points out.
September 10, 2010 at 7:02 am
This is great. Really provides a beautiful adjustment of perspective, and the illustrations really crystallize the concepts.
@Cleo
My interpretation of the sexuality panel is that it refers to both gender identity and sexual preference. In both cases it’s more of a continuum than a stark divide between men and women. As a result, rather than sexuality being a binary thing, as on the left panel, it’s a mix.
I’m assuming the right hand panel represents possibilities in gender identity: transvestite, transsexual, other; and sexual preference: straight, gay, lesbian, etc.
September 12, 2010 at 12:26 am
I don’t wanna tell people how to interpret my work, but i will say that your interpretation is Exactly what i was going for.
September 13, 2010 at 8:40 am
I love you, Winston. No homo, though
September 10, 2010 at 7:04 am
It’s pure, distilled and unfettered brilliance.
Your comics regularly make my days.
September 10, 2010 at 7:47 am
amazing 🙂
and sweetly drawn ….
September 10, 2010 at 8:22 am
This is unfettered excellence.
September 10, 2010 at 8:36 am
Make this into a damn poster and I will buy it immedi- er… uh, when I’m not dead broke.
September 10, 2010 at 8:51 am
Actually one of the best comics I have ever seen in my life.
September 10, 2010 at 8:58 am
That was good as usual, but also very uplifting as not-usual. Thank you very much.
September 10, 2010 at 9:48 am
Thanks man. Just thanks. Awesome, as always.
September 10, 2010 at 10:05 am
That one about being alone…
Thanks.
September 10, 2010 at 10:20 am
I want the one about the fire and the rain cloud as a ti shirt. Do you make ’em?
love it. thanks for the insight
September 10, 2010 at 10:46 am
Fantastic
September 10, 2010 at 11:20 am
Dude
I never wanted this to end.
I’m saving this to my hard drive.
It’s rather brilliant
September 10, 2010 at 12:38 pm
this is wonderful! i wish there were more! i’m going to show them to all my friends!
thank you for doing this!
September 10, 2010 at 1:56 pm
Wow. I wish I’d seen these when I was young. Perhaps I’d have had a different view of myself and the world, instead of waiting till I was 40 to come to the same conclusions you’ve illustrated. I’m going to show them to my kids! They’ll totally dig them! Thanks!
September 10, 2010 at 2:15 pm
This is *brilliant*. I’m sending to friends & relatives. And will save to look at myself for those great reminders.
September 10, 2010 at 3:43 pm
Lovely! Sentiment, not drawings–they’re cool and funky!
September 10, 2010 at 3:57 pm
Beautiful, is a trigger for feelings!!!
September 10, 2010 at 5:23 pm
Brilliant, absolutely brilliant! I’ve been reading Subnormality for a little while now, but this is my first comment. Again, brilliant!
September 10, 2010 at 6:06 pm
Mad Cat/Timberwolf WIN frame 2!
September 11, 2010 at 10:41 pm
I thought that immediately myself, but noticed that the legs were not digitigrade. Honestly, I’m a huge fan of the games and an OCD dorkamugnous, so this stands out to me, and given Win’s attention to detail I honestly don’t know if it’s a happy coincidence or honest mistake. Heck, it may just be the perspective of the panel, but it looks like a knee-joint ‘mech.
Even still, bloody good show having a Battlemech at all.
September 12, 2010 at 12:23 am
Yeah, i don’t even know why i threw that in, i guess i just Felt Like It. And it was more a caricature of said mech, in line with the cartoony nature of the strip, hence any deviations from the actual design (/nerdiness).
Oh, and Mechwarrior 2 = best box art ever. That’s just inarguable if you ask me.
September 12, 2010 at 6:36 am
Hey, I was bound to over-analyze a strip at some point, right? Sorry for nitpicking. All things told, I will never fault a soul for throwing a random Battlemech in somewhere.
I figured you more likely to be a fan of Civilization, though. Especially Sid Meier’s Alpha Centauri.
September 15, 2010 at 12:00 am
Naw, don’t apologize for nitpicking, a fair point is a fair point. As for Civlization etc, i never really got into those, i try to stay away from super-addictive open-ended games, knowing i could easily disappear down that particular rabbit hole for god knows how long..
September 10, 2010 at 6:10 pm
PRINT PLEASE.
PLEASE.
PLEASE.
thank you for making this.
September 10, 2010 at 6:27 pm
Never left a comment on a comic before. This is fantastic, both in execution and meaning. I’m sending it to my 15 year old son.
Amazing work. Thank you.
September 10, 2010 at 7:15 pm
I think this is the best one yet.
September 10, 2010 at 7:32 pm
An excellent poster candidate; I’d love to have this in my room 🙂
Good job!
September 10, 2010 at 7:52 pm
very nice. thanks for making this
September 10, 2010 at 8:26 pm
Amazing work !! Love to have this in my room
September 10, 2010 at 8:39 pm
Excelent comic I enjoyed it very much. TY
September 10, 2010 at 8:43 pm
Want as t-shirts!
September 10, 2010 at 8:51 pm
one of the best comix yet. I would pay for a poster.
September 10, 2010 at 9:04 pm
Never commented before but this is probably one of my favourites so far 😀
September 11, 2010 at 1:02 am
Wow I only commented once before (and to complain), this is amazing though, I would pay money to put this on my wall!
Great job!
September 11, 2010 at 2:36 am
Words fail me.
September 11, 2010 at 3:44 am
Wow! I love it. Good on you, man.
September 11, 2010 at 3:58 am
This is consistently the best web comic out there! Every strip is filled with truth! You somehow put into images everything I feel and somethings I don’t even realize I feel. Thank you for all of these comics and keep them coming! Love the art and love the words!
September 11, 2010 at 6:57 am
Excellent, Rowntree.
As a person who has been crippled by shyness for most of his life, may I say this is one of my favourite subnormalities.
Wonderful job.
TF
September 12, 2010 at 12:19 am
Cheers my friend (and fellow cripple).
September 11, 2010 at 9:25 am
I don’t get The Perceived Significance of One. Is it that the furry guy is a) a small, small creature in a large, large cave, and b) that the small furry creature has a lamp on his forehead and can thus lead the even smaller creatures?
September 11, 2010 at 6:39 pm
Maybe is this?: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegory_of_the_Cave
September 11, 2010 at 10:46 am
Wow! I woke up feeling really bummed this morning as things arent going so great. This cartoon put things in perspective. THANX!
September 11, 2010 at 12:20 pm
Love your work.
This is one of your most beautiful strips, along with The Wall. The lack of Wall of Text and the lovely monster art gives this one big value as a poster.
I don’t understand the reference to institutions, though. Can anyone clear it up for me and other people with no analytical minds? Is it that although institutions look
September 14, 2010 at 7:14 pm
How I see it: Well if you go to a school or university or have a job at any institution, the place can seem overwhelmingly intimidating, infallible and demanding. But in reality it’s not like that- the foundations are a lot more shaky. After all, individuals like you are the ones who actually keep the place going.
September 29, 2010 at 10:25 am
I’d say that it is very much like what miaow said, but also that getting through red tape seems so daunting – institutions as a whole seem like a huge obstacle, but everything has a loophole. If you’re not afraid and take a little time to figure it out, you can walk right under the legs and out the other side. 🙂
September 11, 2010 at 5:39 pm
Awesome comic, think the drawing and ideas are great.
September 11, 2010 at 5:59 pm
i love this!
September 11, 2010 at 6:25 pm
Wonderful 🙂 My favorite was the sexuality part.
September 11, 2010 at 6:38 pm
Excellent!
September 11, 2010 at 6:43 pm
One of my most favorites so far…
September 11, 2010 at 6:43 pm
I would totally buy this as a poster!
September 11, 2010 at 7:38 pm
Winston, your visual musicality is rich and full, the sweep of thinking matched by a true communication between mind and hand; I would still mark this as ‘unfinished symphony’ though – ‘is it all a dream?’ didn’t work in Dallas, and for such an impressive paedogogic piece, the last frames seem a little… shortcutted somehow.
The alt text, ascribing those very frames to an external influence, seems to support this. And above all, nitpickers are scum.
Love your work.
September 12, 2010 at 12:18 am
You know your nitpicking is always welcome, sir (not that i’d classify legitimate concerns as “nitpicking”). In response i’d say that coming up with a satisfying ending was tough, and it took a while, but i’m actually relatively happy with how it turned out.
And cheers for your kind words once again!
September 11, 2010 at 10:49 pm
That was a great comic good illustrations and message. 5 stars.
September 11, 2010 at 11:39 pm
you made my day 🙂 this is really sweet
September 12, 2010 at 12:12 am
I love the cave part, that’s you!
September 12, 2010 at 2:07 am
Very nice. I approve. Well done. Medium rare.
September 12, 2010 at 3:15 am
Awesome way to offer encouragement! I really like your work.
September 12, 2010 at 5:33 am
POSTER IT, ROWNTREE.
September 12, 2010 at 8:11 am
Nice one bruv!
September 12, 2010 at 9:42 am
Awesome..
September 12, 2010 at 2:50 pm
FUCKing awesome !
Although the last panel’s yet a bit worrisome:
“but is it just a dream?”
Or?….
/re-entering doubt mode/
running for full stents
September 12, 2010 at 3:29 pm
I would totally put a poster of this one up in my office. (I’m a mental health provider.)
September 12, 2010 at 4:53 pm
Perfect. Bravo!
September 12, 2010 at 5:06 pm
Just came across the strip through Stumbleupon and just thought I’d let you know it was really excellent way of gaining a little perspective on life. Thanks 🙂
September 12, 2010 at 6:11 pm
Please let me know when the poster is ready. I’m thrilled that they’re making one. I’ll probably buy several.
September 12, 2010 at 6:26 pm
Like the Mad Cat on the monitor there.
September 12, 2010 at 7:17 pm
I most loved the one in the cavern. Nice monsters. Beautifully drawn.
thank you!
September 12, 2010 at 8:46 pm
!!!! 🙂
September 12, 2010 at 8:50 pm
AMAZING! 🙂
September 12, 2010 at 10:07 pm
I often feel like the fella with the antlers. This made me smile at a time when I needed that.
I love you work and have been reading for some time. I will keep my eyes out for the poster.
September 13, 2010 at 12:02 am
This is amazing. I try to think like this a lot, and it really helps day to day. Perspective is a difficult thing to teach.
September 13, 2010 at 2:25 am
this was awesome. plain and simple. kind of makes you feel like the monsters are almost not monsters at all!…… almost
September 13, 2010 at 5:58 am
I really loved this!! I sent it to my niece and it made her day as well. Thanks for sharing your work and keep drawing as long as you find happiness in it.
September 13, 2010 at 12:43 pm
😀
This is good. Nice job, I really liked it!
September 13, 2010 at 1:12 pm
Read your comics for a long time now and every one of them has been amazing in one way or another.
I’m going through a rough patch right now and even though I’ve seen this particular comic three times in coming back to look for updates, it’s cheered me up a little every single time. The ‘How alone we are/ How alone we aren’t part’ especially. I just wonder how one could realize how not-alone they are when everything feels that way…
Anyway, I feel honoured that we share the same name hahah. Hope to see many more comics for many more years!
September 13, 2010 at 4:01 pm
great!
September 13, 2010 at 8:10 pm
I love this and do want it as a poster too! 🙂
I especially enjoyed the part about fortune, which really did speak to me.
September 13, 2010 at 8:26 pm
i don’t know if you’re already aware of this, or if you even care at all, but just fyi: dark horse, the comic book publisher, tweeted about this strip 🙂 http://twitter.com/DarkHorseComics/status/24399107716
September 14, 2010 at 11:54 pm
Wicked, man, thanks for the info!
September 13, 2010 at 9:47 pm
hey, i find this greatly inspirational, great use of non-fictional characters and everyday appearances, and perception, im a philosophy student, and theories of perceptions and subjective conceptions are explored greatly, hense, these comics spoke to me, and i find them cheeky yet motivating. Thank you.
September 14, 2010 at 12:38 am
I’m having a pretty terrible day. This cheered me up a little. Thank you.
September 14, 2010 at 1:00 am
Definitely my favorite Subnormality comic so far, really made me feel better. Keep up the good work!
September 14, 2010 at 2:23 am
thanks man, this comic made my night. like your artwork. keep it up bro
September 14, 2010 at 3:43 am
Truly an excellent strip.
Also hidden in there is the Mechwarrior reference, the Commander Keen reference.. Narnia? Snakes and ladders?
Makes me wonder what else I’m missing here.
September 14, 2010 at 11:55 pm
High five for noticing the nod to commander keen, i practically did that unconsciously and barely noticed myself.
September 14, 2010 at 5:24 am
awesome awesome awesome
September 14, 2010 at 7:05 am
So good!!
September 14, 2010 at 8:07 am
awesome, succinct and real
September 14, 2010 at 9:23 am
Thanks! The comic strip says a lot. It is the reality we did not know or we ignore. Very intellectually made =)
September 14, 2010 at 10:37 am
Thank you. I’ve been dealing with some pretty crappy stuff in my personal life recently, and reading this made me feel a little better. I see from the hundreds of comments that I’m not alone in this.
I hope you feel really good that you’ve improved the lives of hundreds or thousands of other people in a small but significant way with your art. You should.
September 14, 2010 at 12:08 pm
Man, you are really great.
I’m from germany and i dont even have the need to kill you. Thank you!
September 14, 2010 at 11:56 pm
Best Comment Ever.
September 14, 2010 at 1:44 pm
This lightened my day, thank you. Great art with a great message!
September 14, 2010 at 1:50 pm
I need a poster of this in my room so whenever I feel down, I can look at it and feel better. Please make this one a poster. You’re a great artist and writer.
September 14, 2010 at 3:02 pm
I like this stuff.
September 14, 2010 at 3:45 pm
i love the ‘how fortunate you might be’
you got skills
September 14, 2010 at 7:27 pm
Absolutely incredible. I will buy this poster.
September 14, 2010 at 7:47 pm
Thanks for this.. you just changed someone’s day.
September 14, 2010 at 11:52 pm
Okay, the poster’s now available, for those interested. Thanks again for your requests, i’m really glad the comic’s been so positively received!
September 17, 2010 at 4:13 am
…aannnd bought. Appreciated!
September 15, 2010 at 1:24 am
Oh this is just **brilliant**!
I’m going to be honest and say that I actually teared up looking at this. Especially “How alone you aren’t” and “The potential significance of one”. Amazing stuff, man, please keep it up.
September 15, 2010 at 1:34 am
I’ve gotten through them all and I’ve been led back to the beginning. great work, I love it!
September 15, 2010 at 5:30 am
I know these and simultaneously don’t throughout my life. So glad to have something to remind me!
September 15, 2010 at 1:44 pm
These are great! I think they would make great posters for high school students.
September 15, 2010 at 2:27 pm
REALLY GREAT!!
September 15, 2010 at 3:41 pm
I really like this. It took a while for me to get it, but it was cute.
September 15, 2010 at 4:43 pm
My favorite is the difference between how fortunate you feel and how fortunate you might be, though I enjoyed the generally positive message of this whole comic. The potential significance of one was especially touching.
-BC
September 15, 2010 at 6:11 pm
My favorite is the difference between how fortunate you feel and how fortunate you might be, though I enjoyed the generally positive message of this whole comic. The potential significance of one was especially touching.
-BC
Reposted with correct email
September 16, 2010 at 12:59 am
love the artwork. love the message
September 16, 2010 at 11:38 am
Grabbing this poster fo sho! Amazing work you are talented my friend
September 16, 2010 at 4:43 pm
I’m new here and I have to say… It’s great!
September 16, 2010 at 7:52 pm
loving this… especially the sexuality one… lots of t-shirt potential here…
September 16, 2010 at 8:49 pm
Wow. Absolutely fantastic work!
September 17, 2010 at 12:08 am
This might be the best work you’ve ever done, and I was already a big fan.
September 17, 2010 at 3:18 am
nice, very nice.
September 17, 2010 at 4:42 am
I really liked that, thank you.
A good message, and illustrated in a eye-catching, humorous style. I like it,
and thank you.
September 17, 2010 at 4:50 am
Furthermore, I just glanced through all of your comments here. You have a few hundred, and not ONE of them is negative. I don’t know if you are omitting negative comments, but I’ve never seen this many positive comments without a single negative remark such as “totally photo-shopped, its fake” or “gay”. I think that speaks for itself.
Also, I really liked the one about the institutions. I assume it’s saying that we perceive institutions as being deep-rooted and stable, or on solid supports; and in reality, many of these institutions are wobbling on weak supports. That’s what I took from it anyway.
Thanks again.
September 17, 2010 at 6:32 am
No, no, i definitely don’t omit negative comments (except troll comments, of which there are only a couple every month, typically three words or fewer, “this is crap,” etc.). I was fully expecting at least a few counterpoints, but you’re right to point out that the reception has been rather positive, and i am of course cool with that. Dissenting opinions are forever welcome though.
September 17, 2010 at 6:03 am
Why would there be a billboard of a foot?
September 17, 2010 at 6:49 am
Dude you’re comics rock 🙂 Keep at it YO!!
September 17, 2010 at 4:09 pm
I actually just started following you from being linked to another comic (The one about the envelopes and the middle finger) and I think I may have found this comic at just the right time. This one is amazing 🙂
September 17, 2010 at 9:12 pm
You know what W.R.? You really are pretty inspiring.
September 18, 2010 at 3:57 am
I agree with Ben! Very inspiring, indeed!
September 18, 2010 at 4:17 am
Well done! Great work on both the drawing and the positive philosophy. I definitely thumbs upped it on Stumble.
September 18, 2010 at 1:40 pm
this is great!
September 18, 2010 at 11:42 pm
Loved it.
September 19, 2010 at 7:30 am
This really made me smile.
September 20, 2010 at 2:50 am
great work, keep it up!
September 20, 2010 at 10:03 am
Daddy like. good on ya
September 20, 2010 at 8:20 pm
Who ARE you? I want to put one of your pics in my book about to be published, I’m serious! Get back to me? FAB :))
September 21, 2010 at 5:24 am
So true. Thank you. Truely amazing
September 23, 2010 at 3:45 am
Stumbled upon this. Thank you. This was exceptionally inspiring.
September 23, 2010 at 5:10 am
These are brilliant! Rarely have I seen a “cartoon” (not meant to be a cut) that was so useful to my own life. Bravo!
September 23, 2010 at 9:22 pm
A big THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THIS from Germany! Wonderful, brilliant and soooo necessary!
September 23, 2010 at 11:38 pm
this one needs to be on a shirt
September 24, 2010 at 12:58 am
awesome. thanks so much.
September 24, 2010 at 10:22 pm
From a fellow cripple, thanks for the comic! Just ordered the poster.
September 25, 2010 at 5:47 am
I like this, a lot :]
September 25, 2010 at 7:02 am
Fantastic cartoons with a down to Earth , real life perspective.
September 25, 2010 at 5:41 pm
Soooo True! It’s about points of view!
September 26, 2010 at 2:57 am
I loved this! It is so very true! Excellent!
September 26, 2010 at 2:15 pm
Nice
September 26, 2010 at 2:53 pm
moving; touching.
September 26, 2010 at 10:59 pm
Poster time!
September 27, 2010 at 2:45 am
Quite great and solid, looks like it was dug up when you were quite young and polished endlessly. I had to force myself out of devil’s advocate/supercynic mode, and am left with only one thing:
It seems to have been polished very hard, and it comes off shinier and more unified to us than to you, who has spent deep time on each image and has felt it deeper, and less revolutionarily than us. But you still, despite the dulling of the message, hammer it hard.
Thus, you are either a great believer or a great artist.
Either way, kudos.
September 27, 2010 at 3:30 pm
Perfect representation of the subjective and objective views of life. And cool monsters too.
September 28, 2010 at 7:17 am
Thanks for these – they really cheered me up! 😀
September 28, 2010 at 9:02 pm
Awww…this really cheered me up today.
September 29, 2010 at 2:23 am
LOVE
September 29, 2010 at 2:44 pm
this is cute 🙂 i like this
very true
September 29, 2010 at 3:59 pm
Nice! Really cool illustrations and very truthful too.
September 29, 2010 at 8:41 pm
Funny stuff, like the illustrations too
September 30, 2010 at 2:11 am
I really like this comic/poster thing. It’s like you wrapped up life in a nutshell.
September 30, 2010 at 4:20 am
It creates a wonderfull destruction of common perceptions. Thanks.
September 30, 2010 at 5:49 am
This actually brought me out of the depressive mood I’d had all morning. Well played, Mr. Rowntree! Well played, indeed!
September 30, 2010 at 9:46 am
Thanks for this dude. I love how you used a “negaive” medium to portray good things too! genius!
September 30, 2010 at 10:43 am
the messages conveyed were phenomenal as well as the art work. love these!!!
October 1, 2010 at 4:10 pm
Dear Mr. Rowntree:
This was an excelent pannel. I’ve already forwarded to a friend It realy puts things in the reight prespective, doesn’t it?
October 1, 2010 at 11:52 pm
I feel like the left column everyday. I know it’s not true. Wish I could force myself to see it like the right column more often. I love this!
October 3, 2010 at 9:21 am
awesome. thanks
October 3, 2010 at 6:28 pm
Wonderful work, will look at it every time I’m feeling lost.
October 3, 2010 at 9:51 pm
I (heart) you, Winston.
October 3, 2010 at 10:32 pm
Reread this just now, was nice to begin with, hugely reassuring at this particular moment. Thanks!
October 5, 2010 at 5:25 am
these were really great .they had me thinking.real eye opener!
October 6, 2010 at 5:49 pm
Great! I had to say I felt slightly reassured after reading it. 😀
October 7, 2010 at 9:26 pm
well, i merely stumbled upon it w/o any reference to who created or posted this but, it’s wonderful. I very much like the way the creator’s view was captured.
October 8, 2010 at 5:50 pm
Somehow this is much more palatable to me than Chicken Soup for the Soul. I guess I like my medicine coated with some of the Weird. Thank You.
October 9, 2010 at 2:41 pm
This is hilarious! Light-hearted, yet profound. Nice work!
October 10, 2010 at 6:52 pm
Thank you.
This is wonderful. I’ve recently been struggling with stress and depression and this has really brightened up my day. You are wonderful.
October 10, 2010 at 9:24 pm
really awesome….foucault would be proud lol
October 11, 2010 at 12:20 am
Truely amazing. I so needed that. Hip Hip Hooray!
October 12, 2010 at 12:17 am
Some of these are so precise; they are simply wonderful. I especially loved: How Fortunate You Might Feel vs. How Fortunate You Might Be. Also cheered the one about How Institutions appear vs. How they actually are.
What brilliant work! Many Thanks.
October 12, 2010 at 7:41 pm
I really enjoyed this. Great graphics and content.
October 13, 2010 at 4:50 pm
very nice and deep.
October 14, 2010 at 10:58 pm
I loved this it was absolutley cute and made me take a step back to look at the more positive things in life.
October 15, 2010 at 9:08 am
This was truly beautiful.
October 17, 2010 at 10:54 pm
This is so beautiful. I would love to buy a print of this, or on a T-shirt. Inspiring.
October 17, 2010 at 11:54 pm
Had to add to that. I can say your artwork has officially touched at least two people deeply in a good way 🙂 Not so typical for a web comic, but being that I see that as the goal of artwork, I had to say so.
October 21, 2010 at 12:45 pm
Very good work and very inspiring!! congratulations to the artist! thanks a lot for this
October 21, 2010 at 5:50 pm
We’re all little monsters Thanks for the insight
October 22, 2010 at 1:54 am
This comic here, it helped me feel better, because its basically how everyone has felt like in life. Thanks for the comic.
October 22, 2010 at 10:54 pm
Good stuff.
October 23, 2010 at 6:39 am
Excellent!!!
October 24, 2010 at 3:34 am
wow, thank you. this really put my past month or so into perspective. it lifted my spirits, to put it simply. thank you.
October 24, 2010 at 5:15 am
Simple, yet profound. For anyone with a past of videogames and sci-fi novels, the weird characters are all the more likeable. I was especially fond of the (probably unintentional?) Yorp reference from the Commander Keen series.
I would also like to thank you for making your comics, in general, as the quality is always very good and enjoyable, more than enough to justify its place in my “to-check” list of the best comics I’ve found on the web.
October 25, 2010 at 4:34 pm
like your work…it is funny and so colorfull. well done. hope to see mopre in future. best wishes from hamburg. marc
October 26, 2010 at 11:28 am
Oh Man,
You are bloody good.
Your work makes me feel so many great unexpected emotions, the only one that is not nice is jealousy of your incredible talent.
I dont want to be gushy, but if you are ever feeling down, please know there is someone here (all the way down in Australia) who truly believes in you.
Best wishes
Oscar
October 28, 2010 at 1:07 am
WOW!!
I’m an almost 45 year old woman(on the 30th of this month), who is not into video games at all(my 23 yr old daughter is tho)so I did not catch any of the game references at ALL. But I got the gist of this comic just fine. This is an amazing and touching piece of work. I have seen a bit of your work in Cracked.com, but honestly being more of landscapie/cute animal kind of artist(drawing), I didn’t quite “get it” most of the time.
To the mental health worker who said they’d like to hang this in their office, I say, yes, you should. I have struggled with depression all my life…to the point of trying to take my own life more than once. While this poster on one of my counselor’s wall may not have “saved my life”, it would have definitely been “food for thought”. It’s striking nature and boldness of color would have been so eye catching that I would not have been able to NOT read and absorb it’s overall message.
Thank you so much to the artist. I’m going to ask my husband to buy me the poster for my birthday(I’m a framer, also).
October 28, 2010 at 11:54 am
Yeah this one’s definitely my favorite.
October 28, 2010 at 12:20 pm
http://www.reverbnation.com/tunepak/3006996
October 28, 2010 at 7:41 pm
I saw this on a day that i was really down in the dumps and it has helped A LOT!!!!! Thanks for creating this comic strip 🙂
October 29, 2010 at 11:11 am
SO GREAT!! congratulations *-*
October 29, 2010 at 6:04 pm
Beautiful, wonderful, poignant, lovely, apt, funny, well-drawn and colorful. Made my day.
October 30, 2010 at 8:04 pm
to the artist – thank you.
November 1, 2010 at 1:05 pm
Inspiration and the chance to touch other people feels amazing, doesn’t it?
Bravo Viruscomix.
November 1, 2010 at 4:10 pm
You just made a sad girl smile. Thank youuu 🙂
November 4, 2010 at 8:30 pm
Thanks! Chuckles and appreciation 😉
November 4, 2010 at 10:12 pm
your illustration, creativity, and originality are wonderful and fresh. coming from another artist, i think your work is inspiring and your message is as well. In fact, as someone who rarely feels this way, your art made my heart glow.
November 5, 2010 at 2:38 am
very awesome and very true! 🙂
November 5, 2010 at 3:26 pm
funny, love it make more
November 6, 2010 at 1:25 pm
truly brillant
November 7, 2010 at 11:55 am
I try to find words, but I can’t.
so i simply leave my comment with an applauding
W
O
W
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November 9, 2010 at 2:24 pm
all right, +1 for reminding me of the bible my mother gave me when we were kids.
November 9, 2010 at 3:43 pm
Thank you! Work appreciated much 🙂
November 11, 2010 at 4:24 am
Amazing artwork, profound statements.
Thanks
November 11, 2010 at 2:13 pm
I certainly enjoyed your art and humor, Pat’s mom!
November 12, 2010 at 9:51 pm
Fantastic! I’ve been following this web comic for a while now and it never fails to make me smile–not only because it’s so subtly funny but because it’s super profound and really well drawn. Keep up the good work please! Also, the sphinx is probably my favorite, hahaha.
November 13, 2010 at 6:09 am
great art, great message
perception should always be taken into account
we should strive to find another way to look at any situation before we act
November 14, 2010 at 12:36 pm
Thanx! I needed that! GREAT work!
November 16, 2010 at 12:48 am
I wish I would have learn this in pre-school. I’m sure I would not have waisted years with low self esteem.
November 16, 2010 at 11:52 pm
Wunderbar! I especially like the one about being fortunate and the one about sexuality.
November 17, 2010 at 1:06 am
I think teenagers can learn a lot from this. I wish I would have thought of the world this way, the way it really is. lol, good comic!
November 18, 2010 at 9:45 am
You honestly make some of the best stuff on the web. You’re a fantastic artist and a vast, brilliant mind.
November 21, 2010 at 3:18 pm
wow
November 24, 2010 at 5:01 am
Really profound stuff here. Me likey.
November 25, 2010 at 11:09 am
Just want to say these are great.
November 27, 2010 at 3:03 am
This is awesome! 🙂
November 28, 2010 at 11:25 am
Interesting drawings and brilliant ideas. It put things into perspective.
November 30, 2010 at 2:35 pm
I think this is something that relates to everyone. Very creative! Great drawings!
December 1, 2010 at 5:32 am
Well done and MUCH appreciated 🙂
December 1, 2010 at 12:29 pm
It’s funny because it’s true! I can’t tell you how much I can relate. And awesome illustrations, btw.
December 4, 2010 at 3:37 am
Thank you so much for this.
December 4, 2010 at 3:13 pm
Wow, I loved the inclusion of a Timber Wolf mech in the second panel…takes me back to the long days spent mastering Mech Warrior II. I still keep an ancient computer at home for the sole purpose of being able to play that game.
December 7, 2010 at 4:18 am
excellent! I love this. thank you for this beautiful depiction of shifts in perception…
December 7, 2010 at 8:05 pm
Very well done.
December 9, 2010 at 2:09 pm
never realised how uplifting little monsters could be!
December 13, 2010 at 12:20 pm
SO CREATIVE!
December 14, 2010 at 4:18 pm
Lol, this is so very accurate! I am going to send it to my daughters, who could both use a laugh and an eye opener to reality!
December 14, 2010 at 10:36 pm
James…keep it up! Obviously your onto something. 🙂
December 15, 2010 at 5:01 pm
Great!
December 15, 2010 at 9:13 pm
Very very cool.. One of the best things I’ve seen online…
December 23, 2010 at 7:47 pm
Thanks for the optimism, we need it nowadays (:
December 28, 2010 at 10:36 am
Everybody I know has read this comic. As twenty-somethings in NYC, we unilaterally agree: it is very, very, very valuable.
Thank you.
December 28, 2010 at 1:56 pm
Awesome. Rock on!
December 29, 2010 at 4:39 pm
Hey bro.. thanks for the funnies.. much needed insight..peace.
January 1, 2011 at 5:34 pm
awsome! totally true.. all of it.. its wonderfull but i wish i could buy the poster!
January 2, 2011 at 4:52 pm
Hey!!! I went trough your work thanks to the Stumble! button. Sometimes It seems to do magic.
I loved the comic. Totally the attitude we idiots take almost allways and the way things may turn if you see them with a little light.
Light for you then.
Lu =)!
January 3, 2011 at 2:40 pm
Muah! xoxo
January 11, 2011 at 12:32 pm
Thank you!!!! This is excellent.
January 12, 2011 at 4:44 pm
Read through your archives…
you often connect with exactly how i think but am too insecure to express
+1 for you
oo btw i enjoy the hot girl talking techno lingo strips too!
January 12, 2011 at 10:08 pm
Thank you! More please…
January 17, 2011 at 10:51 am
Inspirational, funny, and awesome. =) Thanks so much for sharing.
-AB
January 29, 2011 at 7:32 pm
amazing!
ridiculously truth…
February 6, 2011 at 6:29 pm
made my day ❤
February 8, 2011 at 1:45 am
this honestly made my day. thank you.
February 13, 2011 at 5:08 am
wow i absolutely love it!!
February 15, 2011 at 9:52 pm
This found me at exactly the right moment 🙂
February 16, 2011 at 10:29 am
This is the best…ever.
February 18, 2011 at 7:38 am
Hi there, I found this poster thanks to Stumble Upon and I just wanted to say this is FANTASTIC! :] I really want to see more work like this!!
February 20, 2011 at 1:50 pm
These are excellent visualizations of mindsets and conceptualizations we all struggle with every day. They should be posted on billboards across the land. Everybody needs to be reminded they are better off than they think.(Not everyone can afford or has access to therapy. These aphorisms in everyone’s backpack would go a long way to help each of our journeys.
February 25, 2011 at 6:40 am
just did some time travelin right there
March 4, 2011 at 8:23 pm
Really good with deep messages. Danke for taking the time to make these! Smarty.
March 11, 2011 at 6:39 pm
What everyone else said. These are very special.
March 12, 2011 at 10:31 am
Awesome stuff
March 16, 2011 at 1:42 pm
I love your brain.
March 18, 2011 at 1:16 am
You have my vote,perceptions heh.
I have a 2% notion, that the people we meet, the things we do, places we go may be similar as everyone elses experience that is within the 2% neich of tha population that one may circulate regularly.
So if I hang in a particular part of town, interact with the people there etc.It may seem like the whole city does too, but in fact only 2% of tha total population hang and do the same.
If one grows up in a household that is devout Christian or alcoholic, drug effected, swinging parents or old car enthusiasts as opposed to football fanatics.
It may seem like everyone lives that way but in fact it’s probalbly 2%.
2%,2%,2%,2%,2%, etc,etc,etc.
Ditto with pot, people who smoke it think most people have tried it.
But 2% of the population are regular smokers.
March 23, 2011 at 10:32 pm
I like it, but some days it’s hard to expand our view
March 24, 2011 at 3:55 am
Important paradoxes that occur in life, portrayed alongside art, in a heart-warming way.
March 28, 2011 at 6:57 pm
I love it!
March 30, 2011 at 4:55 am
wow, this is incredible. coming from a teenager, i dont think a better representation of such socially abundant complexes has crossed my path, especially considering the profound significance to my own life that i find in the meaning of this work.
March 30, 2011 at 7:23 pm
that is an amazing cartoon and i saw it just when i needed it, 🙂
April 3, 2011 at 2:52 pm
I loved your comic on monsters. That was beautifully and simply put…that was a great read
April 12, 2011 at 7:11 am
Great!!! Love it! I will send a link to friends!
April 15, 2011 at 7:02 pm
Fantastic, congrats.
April 22, 2011 at 6:15 am
i think im in love with whoever writes these<3
April 22, 2011 at 11:15 pm
This is awesome, period.
April 23, 2011 at 6:42 pm
They should pass out these posters in schools.
April 23, 2011 at 7:09 pm
These are hilarious! Great messages to get across 🙂
April 25, 2011 at 12:21 pm
These are so awesome, I love to see illustrations that visually show the falsehoods of situations. Very Nice
April 25, 2011 at 10:43 pm
incredible! I really liked them, alot of these I think people don’t realize until they read them.
I also like how every scene had that look outside the box/look at the bigger picture feel to it
April 26, 2011 at 7:07 pm
I love it!!
April 29, 2011 at 7:59 pm
DUDE THIS IS RETARDED
April 30, 2011 at 2:28 am
The Monstruos Discrepancies comic is awesome and it should be a poster in school rooms all around the country.
May 4, 2011 at 11:13 pm
was absolutely and utterley amazing! Gonna have to share this with my Psych profs!
May 7, 2011 at 7:41 pm
So true and so adorable!! Wicked love it!!!!!!
May 8, 2011 at 2:04 pm
YES!
~Peace
May 10, 2011 at 11:07 am
Brilliant!
May 14, 2011 at 1:14 pm
My day just got a lot better!
May 16, 2011 at 8:09 pm
AWESOME! And very correct on so many levels!
-Peace and love-
May 18, 2011 at 5:43 pm
Inspiring. I’ts been a very rough week, and I’ve found myself looking at this over and over.
May 18, 2011 at 7:48 pm
Thank you for “Discrepancies” 🙂
May 22, 2011 at 12:36 pm
Just wanted to say we like it!
June 8, 2011 at 12:18 am
that was really great. i think you said more in those pictures than people do in entire books about one of those issues
June 13, 2011 at 10:39 am
These are amazing!!
June 16, 2011 at 5:54 am
this is great, thanks alot 😀
June 22, 2011 at 8:38 pm
OH. MY. GOD.
June 23, 2011 at 1:39 am
Really makes you reflect.
Great work, really enjoy all I’ve seen so far!
Thnx
June 23, 2011 at 11:16 am
Gotta love it…………..so very true………Big Bro not gettin any smaller……….You are always loved, whether we know it er not. This es good thing ! How u r me brother er nephew ?
July 7, 2011 at 3:57 pm
amazing
July 21, 2011 at 11:43 pm
sweet art and concept, love it
July 26, 2011 at 12:11 am
very cool.
August 8, 2011 at 10:50 pm
Thank you.
August 10, 2011 at 10:46 pm
this is moving, funny, and sobering
all at the same time!
thank you
you are great
September 9, 2011 at 7:48 pm
love it so true for me being in middle school
September 12, 2011 at 3:42 am
Thats Fab!!
October 16, 2011 at 10:48 pm
Love those!
October 30, 2011 at 10:42 pm
well played
November 24, 2011 at 6:10 pm
Awesome, very well done 🙂 Keep up!
December 4, 2011 at 7:43 pm
Hey.. Nice Job…
I really liked this… It’s everything so true…
Thanks for sharing this…
December 9, 2011 at 3:19 am
wonderful!
December 11, 2011 at 12:46 am
Absolutely dead on!!!!
January 8, 2012 at 12:57 am
Thank you. found this at exactly the right time.
January 21, 2012 at 2:34 am
Really well done.
January 21, 2012 at 9:46 am
Wow, right on!
January 21, 2012 at 11:26 am
Very imaginative. Made me smile 🙂 Especially the last one.. 🙂
February 16, 2012 at 7:06 pm
Excellent comic strip mate!
February 22, 2012 at 12:54 am
thank you. i really felt the connection and reltivity of these images. like a peek further past the silver lining. 🙂
March 2, 2012 at 8:50 pm
awesome! you have a wonderful mind!
March 14, 2012 at 8:07 pm
Excellent! 🙂
March 19, 2012 at 5:18 pm
True, and pleasant to look upon. Well done.
March 23, 2012 at 8:06 pm
hey cmon i love this other people will b shown!!
April 2, 2012 at 10:16 am
Best image online.
April 14, 2012 at 1:21 pm
this is perfect
April 21, 2012 at 11:11 pm
within a dream?
April 29, 2012 at 5:22 pm
Wonderful.
May 25, 2012 at 9:08 pm
cheered my day up. wonderful.
June 5, 2012 at 8:03 am
wow, nice mind you have their. cool thoughts and imagery. gold star. *
July 15, 2012 at 9:56 am
makes you rethink what you think about you..thanks
July 24, 2012 at 1:12 am
marvelous
July 24, 2012 at 1:16 am
nice, i like the art and the message felt really powerfull
August 6, 2012 at 4:57 pm
This poster art cheered m day, good stuff and thank you to the artist or artists
August 28, 2012 at 3:24 am
this cheered me up and made me think. thank you!
August 28, 2012 at 8:28 am
you made my day..thanks 😉
October 18, 2012 at 7:18 pm
i loved the monster thig, great just great
October 20, 2012 at 5:19 pm
Nice work ! your pal Blu of BluTintphotography
November 13, 2012 at 9:26 pm
Great!
December 10, 2012 at 7:01 am
and so, every day’s a brand new day?
January 7, 2013 at 6:47 pm
If every monster could, just maybe they would.
May 4, 2013 at 11:33 pm
Great,!
September 11, 2013 at 5:23 pm
Awesome and Accurate, Thank you…
October 9, 2013 at 8:54 am
I love everything about this. It’s good for us monsters to be reminded, from time to time.
October 9, 2013 at 9:01 am
You should make a children’s book! I would buy it for my kids.
October 11, 2013 at 12:37 am
Agreed!
October 11, 2013 at 1:06 am
This is All types of Wonderful and should be shared as frequently as possible and made into a short children’s book. (posters already available or I’d say that as well) It’s not like you have to do much more then pint it up since the words and illustrations are already made and internet marketing is so viable these days for projects like these especially.
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October 11, 2013 at 6:19 pm
I love this style of art. It draws you in and forces you to crave for more. Great stuff!
October 16, 2013 at 10:31 pm
wow. very intresting 🙂
October 17, 2013 at 10:02 am
One of the best things on the Internet.
October 18, 2013 at 12:19 pm
Thank you for bringing the truth to reality in a perspective through your art. I work as an On Call Counselor with the Haven House with Community Youth Services. In addition, I am on a Art Committee with Family and Juvenile Court for Thurston County and a CASA (Court Appointed Special Advocate) for children in Thurston County. I will bring up your work at our next Art Committee meeting as we discuss exhibits for displays on the courthouse walls.
November 17, 2013 at 4:52 pm
I really needed that.
Thanks ..
December 1, 2013 at 12:29 am
Too wierd for words. And wierd is just another word for awesome.
December 1, 2013 at 12:36 am
In reviewing the comments, they are rife with grammatical and spelling errors. Get a grip folks, and have some pride in what you write !@#$!
December 18, 2013 at 6:12 am
hey there, “pal”, guess what? you misspelled a word. it’s WEIRD not WIERD.
dear wr: kudos on the comic. as you already have heard from many others, it’s brilliant. thanks for sharing!
September 5, 2014 at 4:27 pm
This is my favorite thing to read when ever I am feeling down. It has gotten me through some bad days. I am so excited to see there is a poster version available. Thank you for creating this!
February 9, 2016 at 12:19 am
Makes me feel better about life.
February 13, 2016 at 2:11 am
Great,
insightful and truthful, well done. Fuad
April 30, 2016 at 3:49 pm
This is really well done. I think its a beautiful way of putting things in perspective
May 11, 2016 at 7:13 pm
Always really liked this one. One of my favorites from yours.
August 12, 2016 at 3:22 am
great job m8
August 15, 2016 at 10:57 pm
LOVE, LOVE. too true!
December 11, 2016 at 3:04 am
insightful
June 1, 2017 at 6:15 pm
this is fab
May 12, 2018 at 4:37 pm
this is fucking awesome. keep doing what you do!