Branson Reese
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About
Branson Reese is a cartoonist and sketch comedy actor whose comics have a significant following on Weird Twitter.
History
Reese's first webcomic, Escape From Heaven,[1] launched on Tumblr on February 18th, 2015 (first comic shown below).
While most of the comics did not gain many notes, Reese did draw Teen Comix, [2] a doodle which would later grow into a popular exploitable. In the original comic, the second panel, which would become the altered panel in future exploitables, shows a shirt that reads "What if they made Simpsons porn illegal?" The comic has generated over 25,000 notes as of May 18th, 2017 (shown below).
After June 7th, 2015, Reese did not update Escape From Heaven again until February of 2017. He did, however, continue posting webcomics for various news and comedy outlets. On September 7th, 2016, he posted the first of what would become several Garfield parodies to his Twitter account (shown below).[3]
On December 18th, he uploaded several comics to his personal Tumblr account. As of May 18th, 2017, he has uploaded a new comic to his personal Tumblr nearly every day since. Many of these grew popular on Twitter and Tumblr. One of the most popular was his comic titled "The Person Who Discovered Sharks,"[5] which gained over 13,000 retweets and 32,000 likes after its April 3rd, 2017 publication (shown below).
The popularity of the comic was buoyed by the discourse that followed it. Several people replied to the comic correcting Reese that sharks were not smooth creatures. Reese responded by trolling these people by acting like an expert on sharks who knows that sharks are in fact smooth. His troll was covered by gomn.com.[6]
Online Presence
Online, Reese is mostly popular on Twitter.[7] There, he has over 23,400 followers. His comics have been written about by College Humor,[8] who called him "The Internet's Weirdest Artist." He has made a notable fan out of comedian Paul F. Tompkins, who on May 15th posted to his Facebook account,[9] "I like Branson's comics very much."
Various Examples
Search Interest
External References
[1] Escape From Heaven – First Post
[2] Escape From Heaven – Teen Comix
[3] Twitter – Branson Reese Garfield
[4] Tumblr – Branson Reese Archive
[5] Twitter – The Person Who Discovered Sharks
[6] Gomn – Cartoonist trolls Twitter by refusing to admit shark skin isn’t smooth
[7] Twitter – @bransonreese
[8] College Humor – 18 Comics From The Internet's Weirdest Artist, Branson Reese
[9] Facebook – Paul F. Tompkins Post
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