Artist Creates 30 Painfully Relatable Yet Exhilarating Comics About Family Life

It hits differently with kids in it.

Elisha

• Published in Funny
• January 7, 2022

What if I told you you don't need any professional skills to make the funny comic illustrations that are trapped in your head, would you believe me? Well, maybe you won't, it's fine, I believed the same thing until now.

But if you always wanted to write or create something artistic without any artistic skills at all, how would you do that? How will you make your voice heard? How will you make your audience laugh? How will you make your point?

Meet James Breakwell, he's the answer, the best example of this. He's a comic artist who will convince you that you don't need ‘special’ skills to make your point.

It's incredible how he did it, James is a professional comedy writer with no creative artistic experience at all. An amateur father of four girls ages nine and under who feature largely in his comics.

This imaginative artist says that he gets the inspiration for his comic appearance from the stick dolls at the entrance to a public restroom. James can not paint at all, unlike many other artists. But he unfailingly tries his best, constantly working to be consistently faulty in the same things every day—in order to get better.

So, artist James created 'Unbelievably Bad Web-comic', a comic series based on family life. They're one series that are funnily weird, relatable, and hilariously sad. We're sure every parent reading this comic will find it achingly relatable.

We've compiled 30 of artist Jake's painfully relatable comics about family life for you. Get comfortable, you're in for a fun time.

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1. Course Correction

2. Sleep With One Eye Open

3. Extra Help

4. Irreplaceable

5. True Romance

6. Going It Alone

7. Future Planning

8. Healthy Living

Jake's girls are the starters for almost all of his fun projects. Although, they don't actually shoot each other from weapons or ride wolves—we wish they didn't.

Everyone's kid is weird in their own way—there are common grounds definitely—and Jake's comics celebrate that. Virtually no one can beat their chest and claim to have ‘normal kids’, they're either lying or delusional.

9. Reward For Service

10. Adulthood Is Sad

11. Brown Thumb

12. The Right Diet

13. The Search For Joy

14. Don't Go in His Footsteps

15. Planning

16. Scared Off

17. Positive Attributes

18. Shooting Siblings As Missiles

19. Mortal Enemy

20. Duck And Cover

21. Too Early

22. Delayed Conflict

23. Total Freedom

24. Hey Beautiful

25. Lucky Man

Artist James started this comic series because he wanted to crack the fun he usually couldn’t tell on Twitter or anywhere. His comic series let him be *a little more out there*. So, James thinks he can draw his kids with flamethrowers without anyone reporting him to CPS. Moreover, the fun thing is, in his comics, his girls never get aged. And that’s funny right.

26. Unfamiliar

27. Being Grateful

This comic series was born because it was the only way James could tell the jokes he couldn't crack on Twitter or anywhere. His comics series allowed him to be a little more ‘out there’. I mean, how else could he picture his kids wielding flamethrowers without some person reporting him to CPS.

James simply reflects the adventures, and everyday experiences of a father, mother, their four children, and two pet piglets. 

28. What If

29. Come Home

30. Making A Living

There you have it, you can make your point without any professional or special artistic skills. One (obviously) proven way is finding the right source(s) of inspiration, and consistency while sharing relatable everyday experiences.

Was any of the instances relatable? If yes, which was it? Let us know in the comment section below as we would love to hear your thoughts and opinion.

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Elisha