25 Twisted & Dark Comics With Unexpected Endings By Tony ESP

Creating comics and webtoons is the most challenging part for the comic artist. Tony ESP creates shocking, twisted, dark webtoons packed with hilarious cartoons, each offering a twisted ending. Weird, ranging from puns and lighthearted jokes to twisted comics, they will make you ask, “wait… what?”. Yes. Tony Esp is a comic artist and animator who is virtuous at making just that. These short stories are one-of-a-kind and mostly impossible to predict.

Followed his dream

Four years ago, the Mexico-based artist began drawing comics as a way to improve his skills in his spare time. Esp told us that he dreamed of doing this a full-time job at the beginning of his career.

Here’s how he began: “Around Oct 2016, I wanted to create a YouTube channel, but I realized I didn’t have the drawing skills for what I wanted to create, so I had to quit it. I remember reading a comic called Rosianna Rabbit by Alex Dempsey and thought that webtoons were a way to improve my art. So I started drawing comics.”

It’s ok to enjoy dark humor

Tony’s humor is dark, and he believes that it’s ok to enjoy dark humor. In fact, a study by Willinger, U., Hergovich, A., Schmoeger, M. in Cognitive Processing suggests that this is true. Apparently, If you enjoy inappropriate and darker jokes, you’re not bad, just smart.

So, even though dark comedy isn’t everyone’s cup of tea, feel proud when you laugh at it. “Dark humor isn’t for everyone, but I like to believe that nothing is off the table when it comes to comedy. Of course, I have my standards and preferences, so even I have my limits.”

Death of the author concept

Death of the Author is a literary criticism notion from the mid-twentieth century, named after Roland Barthes’ seminal 1967 article on the subject. It asserts that an author’s objectives and background (including politics and religion) should have no bearing on how their work should be interpreted.

According to Barthes, readers must thus separate a literary work from its creator to liberate the text from prejudiced interpretation. A work’s essential meaning depends on the reader’s impressions; “a text’s unity lies not in its origins,” or its creator, “but in its destination,” or its audience.

Most of the jokes came while I was in the shower

We were curious about Tony’s source of inspiration, which seemed to be as random as the concepts in the webtoons. He shared with us, “I don’t exactly sit down in my chair and try to write something funny. Most of the jokes came while I was in the shower, and on occasions, I base them on my life.”

The artist believes his warped sense of humor, not his art style, distinguishes him from the crowd: “I don’t have a specific art style for my webtoons, so definitely my weird comedy.” Indeed his sense of humor stands out!