#whomp comic

[francoisl-artblog]

So, on a personal note, you might know that Ronnie Filyaw's comic was one of my favorite out there, and since the comic hiatus in 2021, I missed these characters.

Sure ! There's a lot of great webcomic. Nerd and Jock, LitterBox, SlackWyrm, Erma, all that. (And I SURE need to make some fan art one day)

BUT Ronnie has a something unique, I haven't quite seen something similar. And it was, for me at least, super neat and original in his way.

And it was gone for a moment...

And out of nowhere, in February 2025, just like that, he is back. He is back !

And I'm happy, and now looking forward for more Ronnie, Agrias, M. Dude, and everything that come with it.

WhompComic! (c) Ronnie Filyaw Artwork made by me.

[have-you-read-this-webcomic]

Have you read Whomp! by Ronnie Filyaw?

Yes, completely!

Yes, partially

No

I've never heard of it

Voting ended onJan 9

Read it here!

[oshamoff]

Even Ronnie is calling people out on their bullshit.

Go see a goddamn doctor instead of self-diagnosing.

[ourcomicsourselves]

Whomp Comic by Ronnie Filyaw

Hello! My name is Anna Sellheim and I will be curating the Our Comics Ourselves tumblr this week. I write comics about mental health and progressive politics. This will be a mix of both comics that were important to me growing up and helped shape my creative voice, as well as work that I find particularly exciting now.

I’m not 100% sure how to start this particular post. With all my previous posts, it was easy because I knew what I liked about the comics I was writing about and they all sort of fall in a similar indie vein. If you read my work you certainly wouldn’t think that Whomp is my favorite comic going and has been for years. I don’t know how to articulate why I love it so much. But I’m in the middle of reread of the entire archive this year, and I need to fill up an entire week of posts, so let’s see if I can pull off an article that articulates my love for this comic other than, “This hits Anna’s humor sweet spot.”

(These are all screen shots from my iPad by the way because I’ve been saving all my favorite strips and spamming my boyfriend with emails full of them. I’m not sure how happy is about that but he loves me so he has to deal). 

Whomp is a comic strip that stars a fictional-esque version of Filyaw himself (from now on, I will be referring to the character in the strip as Ronnie and the author by his surname). Ronnie is a cartoonist that struggles with his weight, anxiety, depression, loneliness, the grind that is creating comics (hmmm... if you know me and my work there might be more similarities here than I originally thought).  I think the difference is that Whomp is hilarious in a way my work isn’t.  

Whomp has a lot of the self deprecating humor many web comics have, as well as a lot of mainstream nerd cultural appeal which is popular today that I personally don’t relate to. But Whomp is really smart and has a lot of elements that make it unique.

It’s primarily slice of life but then has fantastical elements that are woven into the comic seamlessly. For example, Ronnie’s absent father is literally Santa Clause. My favorite fantasy character is Motivation Dude (M Dude) who is a physical manifestation of Ronnie’s motivation and is incredibly cruel and unforgiving.

(To call myself out a little bit, I say I don’t relate to nerd culture but I do have a dragon ball tattooed on my left breast. But I stand by my original claim because I regret it). 

Whomp is primarily a single a day gag strip but there actually is quite a bit of world building that happens over the course of it. You find out the believable in world explanation for M Dude, you find out quite a number of ways that Ronnie having a magical father like Santa Clause impacts his day to day life, you find out why Ronnie’s pet panda disappears after three appearances years later. 

Filyaw is also a very competent artist. Many of the gags wouldn’t work if he didn’t nail a particular concept or an expression (he has an incredible knack for expressions).

So in conclusion, Whomp is a unique gem of a comic. It’s hilarious and relatable and I hope I did a decent job of conveying some of the reasons I love it to you all.

You can follow Ronnie Filyaw on Twitter and here is his website. You can read Whomp here. You can follow me here @annasellheim​ and my website is here.

THIS WEEKEND: I stay on my snobby indie brand and discuss three zines that I came out this year that I’m really into!

BYE!

[i-normally-dont]

Whomp! by Ronnie Filyaw

Sitting Fretty - March 20, 2017

The page’s alt-text:  When you move away from someone to relieve the proximate pressure, there is a precise speed at which you should move. Too quickly, and you seem as though you were disgusted at your seat neighbor. Too slowly, and you seem reluctant, as though you wanted to stay close. The precise speed was once achieved by a man on a train in Belarus. The train was immediately retired and memorialized as a source of national triumph.

[lost-carcosa]

You may pick up your package at your local PakEx facility, located conveniently on the Isle of Darkness, across the Dead Mountains, inside the Volcano of Oblivion. Speak with the receptionist who will tell you that they don't have the package because it is currently en route for another delivery attempt.

[francoisl-artblog]

It's been one whole year since the latest update of Whomp!, one of my favorite "slice of life" kind of webcomic. Have to say, it was one of the webcomic in this style I've read almost at each update, similarly to "Our Super Adventure" or "SlackWyrm" on Tumblr, (and a lots of other, I think I should someday make a drawing with the Webcomic I likes or something like that...) So, one of theses I love that inspires me for my stuff ! That said, actually, it's been on hiatus for a reason, since Ronnie started to work on "From Earth in Peace", another Webcomic, still with a similar humor, but completely different theme. So, if you're interested, go check it out ! That said, I've really been missing theses two characters, I needed to make a little something to compensate. Whomp! (c) Ronnie Filyaw Artwork made by me.

[francoisl-artblog]

There's a lot of WebComics on the Internet, some about fantasy, some about love, and some about self-disappointment, loneliness and lack of motivation. If you're into the last one, well, I Think you should take a look to Ronnie Filyaw's Whomp comic ! Here's a little fan art for the 10 years longevity of the comics ! The comic is about Ronnie, a representation of the author, an overweight anime fan who loves Nuggets, a kind of socially awkward. He lives with cat, Needles, and his Roommate and best friend, Agrias, a Geek who also spend time watching anime, with a huge knowledge about animals and specifically Pandas. Ronnie possess weird power, like being able to eat Big family size menu at McDonald all by himself. Oh, and he's also able a create a physical form of his own lack of Motivation, a mysterious and not that nice creature called Motivation Dude, or M dude. This guy is kind of mean with Ronnie, but at the same time, Ronnie work better when he's around, so... It's okay. In short, this comic is a sort of Modern Garfield comic, but with a different ( and, sadly, sometime, relatable ) tone. Go check a look ! WhompComic! (c) Ronnie Filyaw Artwork made by me.