writehollydavis
Written on May 17, 2022
Owlturd Comics playfully documents the ironies and weirdnesses of millennial life. Like a male Sarah’s Scribbles, Owlturd Comics frankly and fearlessly finds humor in failures of career, romance, anger management, sleep habits, and more.
In a casually weird, super relatable, pop-culture-inflected observational style perfectly attuned to the adulting generation, Owlturd Comics is full of heart. Life is often personified as a buff dude that Shen combats on a day-to-day basis. So are student loans, winter, and many, many other things.
Shen’s art style is visually distinctive, popular with young people, and emotionally expressive. In addition, his frequent considerations of larger questions like randomness, fate, death, and the might of Cthulhu make him relatable for audiences far beyond young adults.
- ISBN10 1449486932
- ISBN13 9781449486938
- Publish Date 15 November 2018
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Andrews McMeel Publishing
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 112
- Language English
Reviews
ktshpd
Written on Oct 5, 2018
Quirky Cat
Written on Sep 6, 2018
Emotions Explained with Buff Dudes is full of comics from Owlturd Comix (aka Andrew Tsyaston). I’m sure you can find most, if not all of these comics on his website and Instagram, but it’s a lot of fun having them all together like this. Plus buying the book would support his art, which means he can make more, which sounds pretty great, right?
I’ve seen some of the Owlturd comics around online, but I’ve never read this many of them at once. I have to admit that I found the experience highly enjoyable. It also made me realize that I wasn’t following the artist on social media – something I felt compelled to fix right away.
This is a highly endearing and relatable series of comics. Tsyaston uses comic moments, like a personification of life, to show the hardships many face in day to day life. While the comics are sarcasm or have heavier subjects, the tone is still overall very light and welcoming.
There are so many of these comics, that I’m sure that there’s one for everybody to fall in love with. While I enjoyed every comic included, there were a couple that I was particularly fond of. I imagine that’ll be the same for everyone else as well. Sometimes you really can find a comic that resonates with you.