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Pop culture has given us countless heroic speeches, dramatic confrontations, memorable catchphrases, and larger-than-life characters. “Pudinawala Comics” takes all of that familiar material and asks a much less serious question: what happens when these worlds are forced to follow everyday logic? Drawing inspiration from video games, movies, television, fantasy, and internet culture, the artist turns…

Oguri, known for manga including Hanasaka Tenshi Ten-Ten-Kun, updated his X account on July 15 and reflected on his experience serializing the series in Weekly Shonen Jump

Sometimes The Simpsons, sometimes anime—cartoons were L. Song Wu’s introduction to art. When she was 6, she would watch her older sister do art assignments and then imitate them. By fourth grade she was making her own cartoons and manga. “I really enjoyed the narrative,” she says. Her dream of being a professional comic artist…

Victor “Marka27” Quiñonez, the Mexican-born, Texas-raised visual artist in his studio in Ridgewood, Queens, on May 14, 2026. Laila AnnMarie Stevens for NPRhide caption

Stephanie Guo finds plenty of comedy in the small interactions that fill an ordinary day. Her “Little Note Comics” revolve around relationship habits, household negotiations, affectionate teasing, and the wonderfully confusing behavior of dogs. The strips are simple and direct, with expressive characters and dialogue that gets to the joke quickly. Even when a comic…

Sometimes, a small creative experiment can lead an artist in an entirely new direction. That is what happened to Anselmo A. Peretto, an Italian-Brazilian cartoonist based in Dois Vizinhos, Paraná, who spends his days working in software development and his free time drawing. After years of creating polished, colorful comic strips with recurring characters, Peretto…