A way for people to graphically communicate thoughts and everyday experiences, while often having no graphical ability of their own.
Typically assumes the form of a 4-pane comic with badly drawn MS-paint characters to represent one's own response.
Commonly distributed through Reddit, Tumblr, 4chan and similar mediums.
Typical rage comic illustrating an everyday inconvenience:
1. Clueless face depicting stick figure with iPod, listening to music
2. Panic face as cable is caught on random object
3. Annoyed face as headphones come lose
4. ClichΓ© "FUCK YOU!" (a.k.a, "FUUUU") face, one of the most popular and easily recognised expressions in rage comics; and presumably the origin of the name.
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Four (or more) paneled comics using simple stick figures, line drawn faces and heavy use of memes.
Dude, this thing that totally happens to everyone, I'm gonna make a rage comic outta it when I get home.
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A type of comic found on various websites which use poorly drawn pictures and faces to be funny.
I spent the whole night looking at rage comics.
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Poorly-drawn comics that usually describe something funny that happened to the author, using a variety of pre-made "rage faces". They were originally four-panel comics, in which the last panel was of a guy raging. Hence, the name. They usually appear on the site reddit.com.
"What are you doing?"
"I'm just reading rage comics on reddit."
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Poorly-drawn comics that usually describe something that angers, Frustrates or enrages the Author,and humors a third party, usually a first world problems, These Comics originally had a small number of "faces" that were drawn by one Author and then reused for other comics, but as the popularity of rage comics have increased, so have the number of faces. Some have become "standard" or well known faces, and thus no longer need the tag line to understand the meaning of the face. Along with the increase in faces, there have been websites popping up that will help users to create their own rage comics
I was reading rage comics on reddit and some guy stubbed his toe against his coffee table
in a rage comic i read this morning the author was angry because her boyfriend didn't want to listen to her music but made her listen to nickelback
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Comics very popular on Tumblr, featuring faces and words that react to everyday occurrences.
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When one is in the thought process of creating a rage comic, a sudden block occurs, deeming the victim unable to create a beloved comic.
Keith: I don't know what to make for my rage comic
Shelby: What's wrong?
Keith: I have rage comic block.
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