Jason Mustian
In a universe rife with comic strips that feel like recycled memes, enter Brian Russell—the man, the myth, the guy desperately trying to entertain you between meetings at your 9-to-5. Russell is the brains behind The Underfold, a webcomic that somehow manages to humanize the dehumanizing reality of cubicle life, family squabbles, and the eternal angst of rolling a 1 in Dungeons & Dragons. Yeah, he’s been crafting these pixelated nuggets of realism for a decade now, and for good reason—people can’t seem to get enough of his painfully relatable sketches.
Here’s a guy who taps into the essence of everyday life so well that you’d swear he’s been reading your diary—or at least eavesdropping on your last Zoom call. Hell, he even features a cast based on his own family, which is either a heartwarming tribute or a cry for group therapy, depending on how you look at it.
Russell’s characters are not just doodles; they’re effigies of you, me, and that guy from HR who still can’t figure out how to mute himself on video calls. And for those of you slogging through workdays that revolve around customers, computers, and—god help us—cubicles, The Underfold doesn’t just make “total sense,” it’s practically your biopic in comic strip form.
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