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Hello, wonderful readers. The time has come for yet another round of Berkeley Mews comics, this being the fourth time we’ve featured the series here on Bored Panda. Throughout the years and iterations, you must’ve grown acquainted with the random happenings of the blue people in Ben Zaehringer’s imagination. And even if not, this is a good place to start your acquaintance with the crazy blue-tinted world of Berkeley Mews.

And as always, if you want to check out the previous parts on our website, you may find the respective parts here: I, II, III. If you enjoy them, make sure you give Ben Zaehringer and his comic a follow on social media linked below!

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#1

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Ben Zaehringer learned life-drawing and basic anatomy at a nearby community college. “We were also taught to draw cars,” he said. “Cars are the bane of every cartoonist, so I’m glad that I was forced to draw them early.”

The general gist of the comic is that “it takes fairy tales and Disney movies and fond remembrances of childhood and turns them into horrible nightmares – but, like, in a fun way,” said the artist.

#2

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#3

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Disappointment is the crux of every Berkeley Mews comic. “When I’m writing I ask myself, ‘How can something fun be made disappointing?’ Recurring motifs include: God, Santa, love, death, childhood, and ’90s pop culture references. Life moves fast, so I try to only riff on things that are timeless, like Disney movies that get remade every ten years.”

#4

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#5

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“I’ve been doing these cartoon drawings for as long as I can remember,” Ben said. “My mom’s cousin, Steve Moore, is a cartoonist, so right away I thought of cartooning as a vocation. My first comics were all in the style of newspaper comic strips, like FoxTrot and Peanuts, only bad instead of good.”

#6

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#7

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“My friend Kevin Garvey and I would make comic books every day after school, by folding two sheets of paper together and then filling them in with funny comics. Mine were mainly parodies of Pokemon and Dragon Ball Z, and Kevin’s were these epic, super-funny space operas. When we were done, we’d show them to each other and to our friends. This was the best comics education I ever got. If you are an aspiring cartoonist, make a friend who draws comics (or make your friends draw comics).”