50 Dark Humor Comics By Joseph Nowak That Are DARK
Updated on January 25, 2026
These dark humor comics by Joseph Nowak are the kind of funny that makes you check your surroundings before you laugh. Not because they’re subtle—because your moral compass is about to start buffering.
They’re bleak, absurd, and somehow weirdly elegant. Like a nightmare that took a screenwriting class.
Sometimes you just need a laugh that feels a little cursed.
Also, your brain is going to bookmark at least five of these forever.
Dark Humor Comics With “What Did I Just Witness” Energy
Joseph Nowak’s whole thing is taking a familiar setup and then pivoting hard into the abyss with perfect timing. Like the breakup scene with the gorilla named Petunia—just a casual, soft-spoken betrayal happening in broad daylight. It’s a soap opera, except everyone’s nude and one of them is a gorilla. Normal stuff.
Then you get the Jenga one, which is basically: “What if game night had consequences?” That’s not a tower. That’s a threat assessment. The kind of dark comedy that makes you laugh once, then stare at the wall like you’re remembering something from childhood.
And the Pinocchio-adjacent workshop comic? That’s pure twisted comics craftsmanship. There’s so much detail packed into the background that your eyes keep finding new reasons to feel unsettled. Like, congratulations—your brain just did an extra lap for free.
Quick detour into morbid humor: the matchstick people watching their friend combust under a LOW CLEARANCE sign is such clean, brutal slapstick. It’s a workplace safety video from hell. The warning was right there. Nature said, “Skill issue.”
The baby dragon chewing on a gas can like it’s a teething toy is another perfect Nowak move: adorable on the surface, catastrophic underneath. It’s the parenting genre, except the baby is a medieval hazard.
And the Rapunzel one—knight barely misses the hair and goes “I’ll come back in a year”—is the most accurate portrayal of procrastination ever put in armor. That’s not persistence. That’s calendar-based optimism.
Need more cursed laughter? Check out 44 Comics That Start Normal And End In Disaster, 40 Unhinged Cartoons With Perfect Timing, and 43 Funny Little Horrors That Live In Your Head Rent-Free.
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