About

Pronounced "uh-bowt” - Canada eh.

I’m Bryan Socransky, an aspiring editorial cartoonist trying to make sense of the absurdity of modern life, one cartoon at a time.

I spent more than 30 years working in business, mostly in sales, marketing, product marketing and strategy. Which means I’ve had a front-row seat to corporate jargon, PowerPoint decks, meetings that should have been emails, people saying “circle back,” and an impressive number of attempts to make the obvious sound complicated.

But work is only part of the material.

I’m married and have three daughters, which is basically a target-rich environment for cartoon ideas about marriage, parenting, kids, family and the general mystery of how other people manage to function normally.

I’m interested in business, work, creativity, technology, AI, careers, corporate culture, relationships, family… and pretty much anything else that makes me stop and think, “Wait... is everyone else seeing this too?”

My process is pretty simple:

Notice something. Find the funny. Draw the cartoon.

Sometimes it comes from my 30 years in the corporate world. Sometimes it comes from raising three daughters. Sometimes it comes from watching people behave strangely in a grocery store.

The goal isn't to teach you anything.

It’s to make you think:

“That is so true.”

And then:

“That’s funny.”

This site is where I’m collecting the results. Cartoons about the weird, funny, frustrating and occasionally wonderful things that make up modern life.

If I notice it, there’s a pretty good chance I’ll eventually try to draw it.