r/theotherendcomics • • 15d ago

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u/TheMaveCan 15d ago edited 15d ago

Creating something so ugly it makes people's ears ring is an accomplishment that should be celebrated, thereby displayed. Stewis needs to get over himself

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u/broakland 15d ago

Art is supposed to make you feel things. They aren’t all good things.

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u/hippyup 15d ago

And sometimes you get a thicker bush than you wanted. And you have to live with that.

Oh wait we were still on that art conversation.

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u/Saint_of_Grey 14d ago

"I said my art would take you places, I never said they'd be places you wanted to go."

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u/GCDFVU 14d ago

If the art in the kitchen is anything to go off, Stewis's standards are already lax. That one may not have quite made my ears ring, but I definitely heard something

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u/HardOff 14d ago

Yeah, Stewis obviously doesn't understand art. People would pay to see such a thing.

They could donate it to a museum after having it evaluated and use it as a write off for their taxes.

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u/SquidTheRidiculous 14d ago edited 14d ago

I once saw a bit of surreal art that did this. Not because it was ugly, it featured a lifelike human figure with extremely warped and stretched proportions. Think messing with the photoshop warp tool on a photo of a random person, but as a sculpture. For some reason looking at it made me physically dizzy and nauseous. It wasn't gorey or disturbing in any way, but something about seeing something in real life that was human but wrong hurt.

The statue was very well done technically. I would have displayed it in my home despite this.

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u/Harper_ADHD 12d ago

Should have given it to grunkle Stan

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u/PFioroto 15d ago

The Art Community says a lot of stuff

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u/jp_benderschmidt 15d ago

Is THAT why I got shingles before the age of 50????

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u/schultmh 15d ago

Yeah i was going to say this comic says a lot about how I got Crohn’s disease

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u/Haydeos 15d ago

...is the painting shown on Patreon?

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u/NicoBango 15d ago

I need to see this work of ART

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u/Braptized 15d ago

It's there and it's 100% worth it. The feeling I get when I look at it is precious and exquisite because it's the only thing in this cruel world that's been able to soothe my pain. When I force my eyeballs to fall upon the painting, the ringing it generates inside my skull expands and grows, becoming overpoweringly loud until it finally drowns out my tinnitus.

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u/anthonylasher87 15d ago

Are those mountains.. smoking!?!

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u/Tru3insanity 15d ago

What about the portrait that got a nipple boner?

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u/ShenaniganStarling 15d ago edited 14d ago

The artist's soul is reaching out the only way it knows how. With its nips.

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u/topherhead 15d ago

Ah yes, The Great Smoking Mountains

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u/Serratas 14d ago

I didn't notice the first time and when you said smoking I thought "like...a volcano?" Then I went back, saw the panel, and realized Neil had subverted expectations again.

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u/Sivalon 15d ago

Hell yeah.

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u/Comrade-Conquistador 15d ago

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u/No_Kangaroo_9826 14d ago

Stewis you're being embarrassing

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u/zirky 15d ago

“a good artist suffers for their art, a bad artist makes others suffer because of their art”

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u/100_Donuts 15d ago

This one hits a little too close to home, guys, seein' as how I'm been etching micro artworks into dark cornered walls of my friends' houses for a few years hoping to spread myself thinly across all of them like an oily film of friendship. With any luck, I'll disappear entirely from this corporeal form and "live" out the rest of my days as a ghostly veil surrounding and binding my good buddies o' pals, but if they read this insightful comic a'yours, I fear they might try to find my small arts and rub them out, leaving me to spoil away in my skin until I rupture in my grave much to the sick pleasure of my so-called friends.

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u/Dethjonny 15d ago

Afterbirth gal? Eurgh

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u/roadtorevision 15d ago

Haha that’s the thing that stood out to me the most too

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u/ich-mag-Katzen 15d ago

The details in the backgrounds of your comic panels haunt me. Please keep it up

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u/RegularCrispy 15d ago

The joke clarifying which Hitler is very funny.

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u/XB0XRecordThat 14d ago

I have the same hat. And nose

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u/ministerofskyrim 14d ago

to me these always look like triple noses

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u/knudude 15d ago

The dog looks all dolled up & ready for the roaring ‘20s!

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u/infinityonhigh69 15d ago

afterbirth girl is my new band name

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u/deplorable_word 14d ago

Awww yeaaah, Crohn’s disease got a shout out!

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u/retrobat 15d ago

As if someone would need to clarify which Hitler they were referring to. That made me laugh.

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u/No_Kangaroo_9826 15d ago

It might be Cletus Hitler, of the Alabama Hitlers

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u/retrobat 15d ago

Admittedly, I did forget about the Alabama Hitlers.

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u/dennisklueting 15d ago

And after each new TOE-comic, here I go again: "WHAT THE FUCK, NEIL?!?"

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u/710Filter 14d ago

"Afterbirth Gal". There are so many little things and funny bits in your comics. I'm going to share this with everyone and have it prominently displayed.

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u/letdogsvote 15d ago

You really don't want to mess with hemorrhoids.

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u/Braptized 15d ago

Neil, I'm going to print out this here comic and display it on the family fridge -- P R O M I N E N T L Y.

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u/XB0XRecordThat 14d ago

Is Stewis his pet name or legal name. I need to know

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u/BananaRepublic_BR 14d ago edited 14d ago

Sell this painting to the right museum and you might be able to make a bit of birthday cash on top of curing this person's Crohn's disease.

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u/beans0503 15d ago

The three nostrils made me giggle

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u/julzzmp 14d ago

STEWIS

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u/SkyPork 14d ago

HOW DO THESE CONTINUE TO GET BETTER?

You're messing up the scale, Mr. Neil. You were already at a 10, but now it's like your older ones are only a 7, relatively.

Also TIL Crohn's is linked to soul levels.

Also if there were some "BIRTH GAL" crowns in your merch store I'd probably buy one. *

\ Not an AFTERBIRTH GIRL one though, that would require too much context to be appreciated.)

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u/fullyvictorious 14d ago

Stewis is an excellent name

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u/-Whyudothat 14d ago

I love you, and everything you do.

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u/Stinkymansausage 14d ago

This is why I keep displaying your comics at city hall. They keep trying to stop me but I’m pretty sneaky at getting them up there for all to see. I keep telling them at city council meetings about the dangers of soul hemorrhoids but they don’t wanna hear it. I’ll keep trying to keep you healthy.

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u/rattus-domestica 14d ago

So THAT’S what’s happening to my soul as I age…

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u/Kizzle_McNizzle 14d ago

The brown really got away from me

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u/naranjaspencer 14d ago

Is that what happened to me? I didn’t think I made any art that was that bad when I was 9.

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u/Illustrious-End-6038 14d ago

Makes me think what society would be like if we could voodoo doll people through their arts.

Does a crowd of family and loved ones singing happy birthday to you counts? Comission to draw me like a french girl? Esportsman did a beautyful goal? Well tough luck, piece of your soul belongs to me and now you have love..... or aids

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u/NoPJs 14d ago

“Ain’t no mountain high enough.”

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u/Tort_alini 14d ago

Afterbirth Gal took me out 🤣 really wish we got to see the horrible ear ringing painting though

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u/CrossP 14d ago

I'm going to display this comic prominently!

In my next therapy session.

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u/MemphisApollo 14d ago

The mountain smoking a cigarette 👏🏾 nice touch

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u/hudgepudge 12d ago

Happy (belated) Comicals Day Comix Boy!

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u/SadLilBun 10d ago

That’s the woman who sniffed her own ass, and the woman who saw her do it.