Cheer Up, Emo Kid is a nonlinear webcomic that explores the ways people cope with life, love, and loss; how do people handle the difficulties of their lives? How do people handle heartbreak, or overcome social awkwardness? How do people conduct relationships, be it with a lover or friend or a complete stranger? How do people handle themselves when they let emotion take hold over rational thought? Cheer Up, Emo Kid explores these questions, and attempts to provide a lighter side to an otherwise dark subject.

Cheer Up, Emo Kid is usually updated on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays — or, more recently, whenever the author feels like it.

About the Author

Cheer Up, Emo Kid is written and illustrated by yours truly, Enzo Santos, a 21-year-old Filipino, student of web & graphic design, and an aspiring cartoonist and animator, currently residing in Vancouver, Canada. You can e-mail me at enzo@nospringchicken.net if you have a question or something interesting to say.

About the Strip

Cheer Up, Emo Kid originated from a series of doodles and illustrations I made in high school pertaining to life and relationships. They were first inspired by the extremely endearing bobblehead series of illustrations by Philip Elliot (otherwise known as boobookittyfuck), so any similarities were completely intentional.

She always thought they were cute.

Cheer Up, Emo Kid also draws inspiration from Don Hertzfeldt, Charles Schulz, Tatsuya Ishida, Scott Kurtz, Bill Watterson, Aaron McGruder, Jeff Bandelin, Nicholas Gurewitch, Trey Parker & Matt Stone, Seth MacFarlane, and Hayao Miyazaki, to name the few I can remember off the top of my head.