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Brad T. Jonas
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I draw unrelatable comics.
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Winter One-Panel Land
panel 1: “I love Winter,” a lady says. “Why?” the guy asks. “All the alive things are dead,” she says. “Ah,” he responds. panel 2: A man is scraping ice off of his car’s windshield, but is revealing liberty bell symbols and a cherry like it’s a losing scratcher lottery ticket. “Damn. Cherry,” he says. panel 3: A man is hugging his dog, who is trying to lay on the floor. “Who’s gonna be my emotional support dog and get me through winter? And be my cardiovascular health support dog? And my financial support dog?” he asks. “Mrff,” the dog says, which translates to “It is going to be a long Winter.” panel 4: A man is laying in the snow, making snow angels. “If I make snow angels, does this not make me a snow God??!” he asks. “Randy, come inside now,” a voice says off-panel. “Join me or be damned, mother,” Randy responds.
January 3, 2026 at 3:43 PM
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how the resolutions are going
panel 1: “My New Year’s resolution was to learn about languages and cultures different than my own,” an old man says. “Boy are they dumb.” panel 2: “Ours was to pass the Bechdel Test—“ one of the female friends begins. “Which we would have done except,” the other continues, and then in unison they both say “Jason.” panel 3: “Murphy’s resolution was to stop swearing so much, wasn’t it boy?” a guy says to his dog. The dog replies “MRRFFF,” to which the guy replies “Okay, that’s your one for the day, bud.” panel 4: “My resolution was to end all my comics in a satisfying manner,” the author says. He then toots and says “You’re welcome.”
January 2, 2026 at 5:15 PM
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resolutions
panel 1: “Don’t kill myself,” a man says. panel 2: “Or anyone else.” panel 3: “Unless they like…really deserve it.” panel 4: “Nice,” the person the man was drinking with says. “Mine were just gonna be like…to exercise more—I like the no killing idea though.” panel 1: a laboratory mouse not unlike Pinky from Pinky and the Brain asks “Oi Brian, what kind of resolution should we make tonight? *NARF*” panel 2: “The same resolution we make every year, Punky,” Brian responds. panel 3: “Basic survival.” panel 4: “I do wish you’d aim higher, Brian,” Punky responds before adding “ZORT!”
January 1, 2026 at 6:02 PM
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True Meaning of New Year’s
panel 1: “People have forgotten the true meaning of New Year’s,” the guy says. panel 2: “It’s not about looking back or making resolutions.” panel 3: “It’s ‘bout wearin’ informative sashes,” he says, showing off a sash that says “It’s Wednesday.” panel 4: “Happy Sash Day,” the banner reads. Father Time is wearing a sash that says “Old Man” as he observes Baby New Year at his feet wearing a sash that has incorrectly labeled him as “coconut” for some reason.
December 31, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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What the Dickens?
panel 1: “You there boy, what day is it?” an old man shouts from his window. He appears to be Scrooge at the end of A Christmas Story. panel 2: “Uh Tuesday,” a person on the street responds. “And I’m not a boy I’m 32,” he adds under his breath. panel 3: “There’s still time!” Scrooge exclaims. panel 4: Scrooge has procured a taco from a taco truck called ‘Tim’s Tiny Tacos.’ “Merry Taco Tuesday, everyone!” he shouts.
December 30, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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the sunny side
panel 1: “I wish I was born on the sunny side,” red scarf snowman says. panel 2: blue scarf snowman is shown melting in the sun. panel 3: “Lucky bastard,” says red scarf snowman.
December 29, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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time to shovel
panel 1: “Time to shovel,” a man says, stepping outside. panel 2: “Unless…” he says thinking… panel 3: He’s on his phone. “Hey Shovel-feet Pete, wanna hang?” he asks. panel 4: “Um, no, I don’t mean just shuffling around my driveway and sidewalk…” he says. Then defensively, he says “Well you only call me when you’re drunk, Shovel-feet, how do you think that makes ME feel?”
December 28, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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on purpose
panel 1: a guy is seen making a snowman amongst some barren trees. panel 2: “WHAT IS MY PURPOSE?” the snowman asks suddenly, coming to life. panel 3: The man, surprised, mumbles “Wha? Uh…” panel 4: The man is seen walking away into the snowy distance saying “Aw jeez” as he listens to the snowman shouting after him. “Creator?” the snowman shouts. “If you want me to kill the forest creatures in your honor…say nothing.”
December 27, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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What we got
panel 1: a little girl in a dress crosses her arms unhappily. “It’s not fair” she says, “Jason got a new ipad for Christmas and all I got was a dumb new bike.” panel 2: another little girl sits cross-legged smiling with a sock on her hand. “I made a puppet out of an old sock,” she says. panel 3: “Oh perfect—“ the unhappy girl says, “Stacy got the ability to appreciate garbage, while I have to fill the ever-growing hole in my heart with material goods—SO UNFAIR.”
December 26, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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Murrr Cshmsh
panel 1: “Ah am Santer,” a Santa Claus with a dead-eyed stare says, “joh joh joh.” panel 2: “Nuh uh” a little boy in a blue coat says, not believing the Claus. panel 3: The Santa is revealed to be a Santa mimic, opening up from the midriff to show big sharp teeth and a forked tongue that it uses to snatch the child and pull him in. panel 4: “Murrr Cshmsh” the Santa Mimic says, drooling from its midriff.
December 25, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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reasons for the season
December 24, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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a magical Christmas dump!
December 23, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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tis the season
panel 1: the text reads “…tired” and the back of a slumped over presumably tired person is depicted. panel 2: now it says “…lost” with the word in the middle of a dark maze. panel 3: “…going nowhere” showing the perspective of someone looking out an airplane window at clouds. panel 4: “Jolly—it’s ‘Tis the season to be jolly,” someone says to a Christmas caroler at their door. “You must have a different songbook,” the caroler responds. Apparently he substituted the words from the previous three panels for the word “jolly” to make the song more realistic.
December 22, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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Where’s hope?
panel 1: a man in a grocery store shouts desperately, “Where’s hope??” panel 2: store employee Kyle comes up and says “Aisle two.” “Wait, really?” the man says. panel 3: The man gasps when he sees aisle 2 contains baked goods, coffee, snacks, cereal, and chocolate. panel 4: The employee says to himself “Oh wait, soap is on aisle six. My bad.” “Where’s hope” sounds like “where’s soap.”
December 21, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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listen to businessman
panel 1: “Hello, it is me, an authoritative-looking white man in a dark business suit, here with a gentle reminder.” panel 2: “Don’t support any so-called ‘artists’ looking for handouts this holiday season.” panel 3: “Art is an unlimited, completely free resource that springs forth from the ether at random.” (or from the AI ether, I should update this one 🙄) panel 4: “So if you see an artist—murder them and grind their bones to make your bread.” “Mmm…artisanal bread…”
December 20, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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bad gift ideas for bad people
panel 1: “A gift card in the amount of $6.66 for ‘The Gift Card Store’,” a man reads, “not redeemable online.” So to use it he has to physically go to a Gift Card Store, where he will only be able to purchase more gift cards, and probably only in quantities of $5 minimum, so he’ll have to pay for his gift card out of pocket too. panel 2: “A bowel movement was made in your name,” a man reads from a greeting card with Rodin’s ‘The Thinker’ sculpture on it’s front. panel 3: “Why does it smell like that?” a woman asks, wincing and holding a sweater with pit stains that reads “I AM A SWEATER.” Keen-eyed readers or alt-text readers will recognize the sweater from a sweater-themed comic earlier this month. It has apparently been regifted without being washed first. panel 4: A man takes a sip from his giant novelty gift mug which reads “SHAME MUG for quiet contemplation of faults and wrongdoings.”
December 19, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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group photo
panel 1: “Okay, everyone say ‘oranges’,” Robert says while taking a group photo. panel 2: Everyone says oranges (except one person who said ‘ostriches’) and Robert takes the picture. panel 3: “Robert, why don’t you have us say a word that makes us smile, like…”cheese”? one person asks. panel 4: “Because your faces saying “oranges” makes ME smile, Margaret,” Robert says, admiring the picture he just took and seeing everyone making a weird face.
December 18, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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do your business
panel 1: a man holding a leash says to his dog (off panel) “Alright, Murphy—do your business so we can go home.” panel 2: We see the other end of the leash has Murphy not excreting waste, but with a literal streetside business going. “Follow the ball to win it all, folks!” he says, referring to a cup and ball game at his paws. “Getchaself a gen-u-ine Roll-Licks watch…” he says, referring to a little sandwich board of watches. There’s also a food bowl that says ‘Tips’. panel 3: Murphy’s diverse business continues. “We’ve got knick-knacks, we’ve got paddy-whacks, hey—you know the rest!” he says like a carnival barker (heh). “You there!” he shouts to someone, “Let me guess what you ate for breakfast!” panel 4: back to the man holding the leash. “C’mon Murph—what’s your business model, the menu at Cheesecake Factory?” he asks, referencing a restaurant with a notoriously needlessly large menu. “Specialize, boy!” “Oh like you do in dog-walking, Dan?” Murphy says off-panel. “Mind your own business!”
December 17, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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out of u and me
panel 1: “You know what happens when you make an assumption, right?” the hoodied man asks. panel 2: “That’s right, you make an ass…um…” the man trails off, but finally concludes “…point.” panel 3: the man awkwardly itches his nose, realizing he messed up the phrase “when you ‘assume’ you make an ‘ass’ out of ‘u’ and ‘me’,” but he is sticking with his mistake. panel 4: “I think you mean to say ‘when you assume—‘“ someone off panel begins to say, trying to correct the man, but he interrupts the person by saying “Don’t make me point,” whilst pointing.
December 16, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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phone addiction
panel 1: a man is reading an article on his phone. “‘Signs you have a phone addiction’,” he reads, “uh oh.” panel 2: “hrmm,” he says while reading. panel 3: “Well I don’t do any of that stuff,” the man concludes. panel 4: “I’m sure one a day is fine,” he thinks to himself as he bites into his phone with a crunch.
December 15, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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the reason to do things
panel 1: “Wait a minute…” a guy says to himself with a look of concern. panel 2: “Why do I draw?” he asks himself, in a full blown panic. panel 3: “Why do I do anything?” he asks, approaching the edge (mentally). panel 4: the man is looking just above his head where a score is displayed. He has just reached 5,318,008 points (yes, I used da number dat spelleded ‘BOOBIES’ on da calculator). “Oh right!” the man says, “points!”
December 14, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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every day we stray
panel 1: a crudely drawn man says “Every day we stray further.” “Further from what?” someone asks from off-panel. panel 2: “GAHD” the man says. panel 3: “Nuh uh—I’m catching up to you lil turds!” Gahd says from the heavens. “Oh shit oh fuck” the crude man says. panel 4: “LANGUAGE,” Gahd says sternly. “Oh shirt oh farts” the crude man says, correcting his language and running away.
December 13, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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holiday cycle
panel 1: “The holiday where we’re grateful was last month,” the guy says, referring to Thanksgiving. panel 2: “NOW LET’S ACCUMULATE STUFF!” the guy says, unhinged. panel 3: “Then vow to be better in the New Year,” he says, looking earnestly towards the heavens with his hands together as though in prayer. panel 4: “Then Groundhog’s Day is the one where Bill Murray forgives our sins so we can repeat them again and again,” the guy says thoughtfully.
December 12, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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embraced
panel 1: a man asks to the heavens, “Where do I go if I want to be embraced for being who I am?” panel 2: the heavens respond, “You will not be embraced by others until you embrace yourself.” The guy says “Huh.” panel 3: The guy then asks “What about that guy who embraced himself at the Minion movie and got kicked out of the theater…” panel 4: “Well…yeah don’t uh…don’t embrace yourself that much maybe,” the heavens respond. “At least not in public.”
December 11, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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sweaters
panel 1: a man is wearing a sweater that says “I’m a sweater.” “Wow, me too!” the man says in agreement. He is notably sweaty. panel 2: “Aw, not again,” Rudy says, looking down at his sweater and realizing he has created what appears to be an infinitely recurring image of him looking down at himself wearing a sweater. “Haha, good ol’ Recursive Rudy!” someone shouts unhelpfully from off-panel. panel 3: a lil doggy is also wearing a Recursive Rudy shirt. “My WORD!” a probably elderly upper class British woman shouts off-panel. “He’s not wearing any pants!” another voice shouts. “Bad dog,” the snooty Brit adds. panel 4: the man from panel 1 has added an additional sweater to his outfit, wearing it over his head, completely obscuring his face. This sweater, notably uglier, reads “I’m an ugly sweater.” “Yeah…me too,” the man says shamefully.
December 10, 2025 at 3:39 PM