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An illustration of a distressed person with purple hair, looking upwards with a pained expression. Above them, handwritten blue text explains that they got a tattoo of birds carrying a “Family” banner not out of love, but because they accidentally caused a real banner to be stolen by birds.

Hilarious King of the Hill-esque narratives from illustrator Will Laren

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Date
28 May 2013

After a relaxing Bank Holiday weekend, you don’t always want something soothing to cleanse your cider-addled mind, you want something with a bit of bite. So here’s Will Laren, whose comic style is as aggravating as an irritating rash (in a good way). Will’s style goes a little something like this – illustration of brightly coloured-in human grappling with the strain of modern life, accompanied by an often hilarious stream of rambling hand-drawn type above their heads that shows off their innermost thoughts. Innermost thoughts is a bit misleading actually; one of the best drawings is of a man whose hard drive has crashed and he’s screaming about how he’s lost all his “wang scans” which are genuinely scans of his wang.

An illustration of a blue figure with a green beard and ponytail, wearing yellow patterned pyjamas. They lean back in a stretch beneath handwritten text that reads, “I believe in a lot of eastern philosophy like yin-yangs and buddhah style stretching, but with some western religious concepts mixed in.”
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Will Laren: Untitled

An illustration of a distressed blue-skinned figure in an orange shirt holding a broken Toshiba laptop. Text above reads, “NOOOO!!! MY WANG SCANS! I LOST ALL MY WANG SCANS AFTER MY HARDDRIVE CRASHED! THREE YEARS OF SCANNIN’ MY WANG DOWN THE DRAIN! NOW WHAT CAN I EMAIL TO PEOPLE WHEN THEY ASK TO SEE MY YANKEE DOODLE?!”
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Will Laren: Wang Scans

A coloured pencil drawing of a person with a large, fluffy pink hat and a moustache, holding a phone to their ear. Orange text curves around the image, reading “I GET COMPUTERS ‘PUTING!”. Small green text including “ASL?”, “WIFI” and “LOL” is scattered in the background.
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Will Laren: Rap Fan Art

An illustration of two people in camouflage clothing and hats arguing intensely. Speech bubbles above them read “I THINK FALL FOLIAGE CAMOUFLAGE IS FER FUCKIN’ WIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII
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Will Laren: Camoufight

A line drawing of a person with glasses and a moustache sitting at a computer. Above them, handwritten text reads “Some people may consider what I’m doing dishonest but I don’t really see the difference between a lady using a little blush to give her cheeks more color and me doing some light photo editing to make my rolls of neck fat look like abs in my eharmony profile picture!”.
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Will Laren: Untitled

An illustration of a person with a purple pompadour hairstyle, crying a single blue tear. Yellow text curves around the head, reading “Crying my dick size”.
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Will Laren: Crying my Dick Size

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Liv Siddall

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Liv joined It’s Nice That as an intern in 2011 and worked across online, print and events, and was latterly Features Editor before leaving in May 2015.

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