40 New “Yes, But” Comics That Continue To Expose Our Society’s Contradictory Nature
Interview With ArtistAnton Gudim’s "Yes, But" series continues to capture the everyday contradictions we all recognize but often overlook. His clever two-panel comics have become a staple for those who appreciate humor that cuts to the heart of life’s little absurdities. From the ironies of daily routines to the quirks of modern living, Gudim’s work resonates with anyone who’s ever stopped to wonder, “Wait, does that even make sense?”
After countless posts and with a dedicated following, it’s clear that Gudim has mastered the art of mixing humor with insight. His minimalist style and sharp observations are now familiar to many, and his comics never fail to hit the mark. If you haven’t already seen his work, now’s the time to dive in—these latest comics might make you laugh and think in equal measure.
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The anti-intellectualism and anti-authority (not authoritarian) attitude among Americans is staggering and is hurting us badly.
And it's a money making career and it's called social media influencer
The Death of Expertise by Thomas M. Nichols is an excellent book about this very phenomenon.
Bored Panda reached out to Gudim once again to explore his creative process in greater depth. We kicked things off with a thought-provoking question: If he were to create a "Yes, But" comic about his own creative journey, what would it look like? "I think the main 'Yes, but' of the creative process is how you sometimes imagine an idea in your head versus how it looks when you actually draw it. Like, yes, you come up with a cool idea, but then people comment, 'I don't get it.'"
This is why I use privacy.com, get the free trial and forget about it, never charged.
This is why I never use the “free trial!!” I refuse to be charged later on!!!
My mom talked me into a free trial.i was hesitant to give out my debit card info but she assured me it was safe. I signed up for a free trial of a tv sport company fubo. I quickly realized they didn't feature the games I wanted to watch. I promptly canceled and received a confirmation email from fubo. They went to town with my bank account. Despite the fact they stole $500 my bank wouldnt refund me.
Your bank can and will get that money back. Especially if it was not authorized. All banks will retrieve money that was not authorized to be taken off your card. You just have to call your bank. By the way, how did a free trial end up charging you $500? Every tv subscription I know of is under or $80. Most are $7.99 to $25ish.
Load More Replies...Skillshare does this, reason why I hate when youtubers lie saying that people can try it "for free".
We want everything to be made in america but we don't want to pay the price for things that were made with fair wages.
Fair wages are different everywhere but, no, we don’t want to pay for things made by those with fair wages in America and no American will work for what those companies would offer if they repatriated that manufacturing.
Load More Replies...Temu makes Trump items and it drives me crazy the hypocrisy! Especially when they post photos with the items.
America has yet to be great for women or POC. Let's just with on making America great.
This is False. Maga hat's say on the inside "proudly made in the USA
Which is a joke, because what that really means is that the materials come from China, and 99% of the manufacturing is done in China, and then they do one tiny piece like the printing in the USA and slap the label on.
Load More Replies...Creating a comic involves a delicate balance of creativity, timing, and intuition. But knowing when a piece is truly finished can be one of the trickiest parts of the process. With that in mind, we asked Gudim how he decides when a comic is done. "By nature, I tend to be quite doubtful. I wouldn't call myself a confident person because I engage in critical thinking too often. For many, this can be a strength, but for me, it sometimes gets in the way of simply enjoying things without analyzing them.
Going back to how I know when a comic is ready: usually right after finishing it. I almost always have doubts about how good it is and may even show it to close people to gauge their reaction. But since, as a creative individual, it's important for me to stay in a constant flow of ideas, I don't dwell too long on one comic—after finishing one, I'm already thinking about the next."
Fireworks upset all the local wildlife not just pets and also veterans with PTSD.
We had a new retirement community have a celebration for their opening. They had a professional fire works show that no one in the surrounding areas knew was going to happen. I was out with my dogs and my beagle ran off and was missing for hours. He finally made it home around 4 am. I was so pissed off. I would have never had him out there with me if I knew what was coming.
Load More Replies...And we used to live in a neighborhood where they would set them off in the street in front of our house for no apparent reason .. not the usual holidays you expect them.... just to see things blow up
One of our neighbours has been doing this. Not in front of our house as far as I know, but somewhere very close. We can hear them late at night sometimes.
Load More Replies...Tesla is run by a k**b, and that's why they don't have any in the cars
Load More Replies...Bought a 2018 Escape. Salesman apologized that it had a small (3 inch) Driver info center rather than a large interactive screen. "You don't understand, that's a selling point for us, thanks". What it DOES have is a factory towing package, which I feel is a more robust drivetrain.
The difference is that you hold the phone.. but touch-s**t is not super safe also :P
Gudim shared that he keeps notes with around 50 "Yes, but" ideas of varying levels of inventiveness. "I go through these notes when I need to draw a new comic and choose the one that appeals to me at that moment. Some ideas remain untouched for a long time, while others get refined over time. I also want to thank my Instagram followers, who send me stories every day with 'Yes, but' situations from their lives or share their own ideas. Some comics are based on ideas from followers, and I love that the 'Yes, but' format has become so broad and relevant to people all over the world.
Of course, some ideas are hard to convey in just two panels, so I add extra frames when needed. Sometimes animation or sound is required. In such cases, I adapt the format to fit the idea."
I would hope so. If my life goes in such a way that I pass and leave a beloved pet behind, and no one notices soon enough, I'd hope my pet survives, and doesn't face e*******n just because they were starving.
Load More Replies...Now HERE'S where universal timing comes into play. My spousal unit just got home and handed me new kitty treats which I was offering to one of the cats exactly as this cartoon came up. Spooky! :`-) Although she didn't bite me (THIS time).
I'm not sure i understand why I'm getting downvoted. People will cheer the billionaires, but not realise that they get rich off the poor people's work and spending, while the poor people bemoan their poverty. They hoard the wealth the POOR people created.
Now is not the time to bury our heads. I applaud every opportunity to point out the inequality of the times we live in. Thank you XenoMurph for extending your ancillary mouth and extracting a bit of wisdom from the mind of reason and spitting it back out at us to chew on. Xeno-67d1d...624434.jpg
It's like the sports fans who jump on the bandwagon and root for the 'winning' team (such as the Cowboys during the years when they were good) but now they are underdogs who usually get badly beat...
Especially in winter and you have a wife who always forgets and stops the shower by turning off the water. That first 5 seconds is like a polar bear plunge in shower form. It will wake you the hell up though!
Load More Replies...That happened once or twice to me. I turned the water on while it is diverted to the shower setting without knowing it. Sprayed myself with freezing water when starting a shower. WOooooooweeeee!
As a domestic cleaner, I have had multiple situations similar to this!
I'm confused about what's going on in the drawing on the right. The moon and people with animal bodies and some other stuff.
Astrology and belief in supernatural stuff is wayyyyy more harmful to people's lives than being a super fan of media ever could be.
I'm sorry, please explain how my religion (wiccan/witchcraft) is harmful to my life? I am only doing things for myself, it's not even like I'm attending a public service or advertising my religion on billboards.
Load More Replies...The bag weights are about the baggage handlers not being able to safely life and carry it not about how much weight is on the plane.
That weight limit is to protect baggage handlers. It has nothing to do with weight on the plane.
You also have to have rules ins place. If you don't enforce them, people will take the p**s.
Yea and I bet those are designer jeans with custom artistic rips
I always toast my seeds. I will buy pumpkins (not to carve) to eat the fresh seeds!
The pumpkin seeds inside the pumpkin are superior to the ones in the bag. I've never found any that compare.
If you saw my socks next to the rest of my clothes, you'd think there's a split personality involved.
And I like interesting socks I don't see a problem with that
Load More Replies...We had a plant manager like this, cool guy. He owned some crazy socks, and evidently a massive sock drawer.
I think it's more about using solar energy rather than the view.
Load More Replies...We can. Many countries are working hard to install them. It's expensive, involves a huge amount of work, a large carbon footprint, and makes maintenance much more difficult so it's understandable that progress is slow.
Load More Replies...I have admittedly done that and also shamelessly erase people that are accidentally in photos.
Every dang time! Many toys for toddlers have those stickers. It is a CYA if the kids are not supervised, break it then try to eat the evidence. This is about as annoying as all the cute maternity t-shirt slogans that are not available on clothing shaped to accommodate a baby bump.
Because of widescreen letterbox format, half of the screen is wasted
Load More Replies...Hell yeah! I play old Nintendo games on my big 4K screen and love it
Load More Replies...Just hooked my N64 to my Big-@ss TV last weekend to play Goldeneye. I kid you not! 😂
Yeah, but the artist shows a lack of understanding on how technology and fun work.
I would guess it's just supposed to be a cute contradiction, not a deep criticism of people's choices for fun. Probably hard to imagine anything like that lately, I know.
Load More Replies...In France it is forbidden to smoke in a car when there are children in it.
It should be forbidden to smoke ANYWHERE near kids !
Load More Replies...Does it matter he also smokes in the car? He likely does it in the house as well.
A car is a much smaller area than a house, but honestly shouldn't do it in the house either. Just respect
Load More Replies...I came across a photo of a hotel that actually did this - they used the stars in the design of the building to make it seem like it was a 5 star resort
It can be done with proper rabbit proofing. My bun-son is free-roam, and any cord clusters (I also keep fish and herps) are blocked off by NIC grids. Works like a charm, and we can all coexist without problems!
Load More Replies...I'm showing my age here, but back in the early days of colour television, there was a problem that some television sets produced X-rays as a by-product of the extremely high voltages (60 KV if I remember correctly) produced by vacuum tubes such as the damper. People were recommended not to sit too close to the sets to avoid exposure. Although by about 1970 shielding of these tubes was mandated to reduce exposure, parents had absorbed the message and this has continued to this day... even though there is no possible way that modern LED televisions can produce X-rays at all...
Ohhhh I never knew that! Now it makes perfect sense.
Load More Replies...Still bright though, which is what the issue with being close is to screens.
Load More Replies...How one allocates ones' finances are personal choice. If he'd rather have a nice computer system than a good bed, why do we care?
I would say one might care if he's living in his parents basement and doesn't have a job or really make any contribution anywhere other than on video games.. but yeah it is just a cartoon
Load More Replies...Gee, I thought it could be a jab at muskrat because he says a lot of his workers sleep at the office.
How's that a yes? He's obstructing the shorter one's view. Please correct me if I'm wrong, I'm confused
I think it's a negative unlike most of the other ones. Yes, being shorter means your view is obstructed, but being shorter is nicer on the airplane. (I'm the tall guy in the picture and I can tell you it sucks on planes.)
Load More Replies...I remember when they confiscated two EXPENSIVE gold items and kept it, the poor woman had crumbled to the floor crying and they still only got one, there was no "man" with her so she was just looked down on like that, that guy is now out there somewhere after selling what he got...it disgusts me because no one did anything
I prefer the sign I saw at a pool once; we don't swim in your toilet, don't pee in our pool...
Load More Replies...The more diverse skin tone ones tend to be more expensive. Cheap ones are normally this color. But at least there is an attempt being made!
Load More Replies...I'm a white person. I've never had a bandaid match my skin. I didn't know that weird yellow color was even supposed to match skin. Nice we've got options now though.
As it never matches my skintone I use the bandaids with Spiderman.
People don't decorate the back of the tree? Ours is in front of a window so we've always done it.
Looks great from the front, but the back, not so much.
Load More Replies...Here in Denmark the entire tree is the front. Because we dance around it. There's no "hiding the back of the tree"-option. Lol. My bf's granddad tried to hide an ugly part of a Christmas tree one time in the 1980s and he's been dead for decades but they still talk and laugh about that one year he pretended that he had found a nice tree -but he placed it against a wall and it was pretty much dead on the back. There is NO hiding a bad looking part of a Christmas tree in Denmark.
I have long hair and I love band shirts. But I don't give a flying f about prints on the back because my long hair will hide it anyway. Lol
Not that it matters but what gender are you?
Load More Replies...The cool print is covered with the bag. Are you even looking at these?
Load More Replies...moving signs/hyper bright signs and headlights/advertising everywhere /shiny reflective vehicles and buildings- people need to design things to reduce distractions, glare, and blinding lights and reflections.
Testing on animals means testing if the chemicals are safe. Why would they potentially harm an animal for that?
Too be sure it's not harmful for humans. That's worth killing off a few animals, if needed.
Load More Replies...I wouldn't want my pet to be the test subject is the gist of it.
Load More Replies...You don't have enjoy having your eyeballs glued to your phone all the time to need high tech medical care.
Some families have an agreement where one person works outside the home for an income and the other maintains the home. The money is for both of them. Same with kids, when it's my birthday, we go out to dinner but I still pay bc I make a lot more money than they do and they have a baby at home. I enjoy the celebration with them.
And in some families both work and they share everything, no matter who earns the most. But sure, this one is bad, because hopefully she's made an effort to find something he likes.
Load More Replies...I feel this one, like when I go to dinner with my wife and she jokes I got this one. But it is not who pays intead the thought behind what was spent on.
Some of these are good, some of these really show the artist ran out of ideas and is stretching to make a point that doesn't exist in reality. I don't think I'd want to be one of his close friends or family because I feel he likely makes these observations in real life constantly and you'd have to keep telling him, no things don't work the way you think they do.
These started out well and then got either confusing or unreasonably judgmental by the end. This list could be pruned and be better for it.
So many of these were out-of-touch or super judgemental. It really took away from the good ones.
Some of these are good, some of these really show the artist ran out of ideas and is stretching to make a point that doesn't exist in reality. I don't think I'd want to be one of his close friends or family because I feel he likely makes these observations in real life constantly and you'd have to keep telling him, no things don't work the way you think they do.
These started out well and then got either confusing or unreasonably judgmental by the end. This list could be pruned and be better for it.
So many of these were out-of-touch or super judgemental. It really took away from the good ones.
