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As the year 2023 is coming to an end, people tend to pause and reminisce about the moments that defined this year, may that be a fun trip you had, or perhaps the realization of a lifelong dream; it is always good to reflect before the new start. This is exactly what the creative duo Jonathan Kunz and Elizabeth Pich behind the hilarious comic series "War and Peas" does, as they highlight a collection of their best cartoons from the past year.

So, whether you've been a fan of "War and Peas" from day one, or this is your first time seeing these comics, we are sure you will enjoy their humorous selection.

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Bored Panda reached out to the team of ‘War and Peas’, who kindly answered our questions regarding the comics.

Jonathan and Elizabeth are counting twelve years since the first comic they made. Therefore, we were curious to know about the evolution of their artistic style and storytelling. They shared: “Our artistic style, just like ourselves, has changed massively over time. In the beginning, our characters only had two dots for eyes and no other facial features. That gave us room for dialog-based humor, while we're also inclined to use visual humor today. Our figures now have mouths. Sometimes even pupils and we really enjoy dramatizing the facial expressions.”

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Giles McArdell
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11 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Any time Pavlov heard a bell he thought about feeding the dogs.

We also asked how they maintain consistency in delivering fresh, engaging content every week, and whether they ever face creative blocks.

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“We work ahead a bit and have a backlog of about a dozen ideas most of the time. That helps to overcome creative blocks. It's also quite helpful to be a duo: If one of us is down, blocked, or whatever, the other is there to pick you up and to be strong for you,” explained Jonathan and Elizabeth.

Inspiration for ‘War and Peas’ comics spans over various sources like literature and TV series. We asked the creative duo to share how these diverse influences shape the themes or narratives within the comics.

“That's very difficult to answer because we don't really know how brains work. Maybe we'd have to ask a neurologist for advice here. It's not as if you could add up these influences, and then there's War and Peas. It's more than the sum of its parts,” replied the team.

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11 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

But you get all the pets, all the tuna, and all the toys you could ever want. And humans scoop your waste for you.

And lastly, Jonathan and Elizabeth shared what we could expect next year from them.

“We're happy to announce that there will be a rhyme-based story collection in 2024 named 'Once Upon a Workday'. It's illustrated poems we wrote about creativity, work-life balance, and the struggle of being a functioning adult in this world.

The story behind this book is that we once published a story called 'A Job is a Job'. Our fans loved it so much that they urged us to turn it into a book. So we added a couple of similar stories and presented the idea to our publisher Andrews McMeel. So yeah, that will be a thing, and we hope everybody will love it as much as we loved working on it!”

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11 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My new favorite insult! "You're nothing but a small-brained losersaurus!"

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11 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

no keep going he's waiting for the right time to pull out the camera

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11 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I love learning how the superstitions came to be. My fav is that breaking mirrors is bad luck started because rich people wanted to encourage the servants to be extra careful around the pricy mirrors

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11 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I've never understood how just being around flowers is supposed to do anything except allergies

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10 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The Internet forum watching are already mostly in their underwear by this point...

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11 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

"Not the c*m bucket again" is not a sentence I was expecting to read today. Or ever.

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