Stoner Comics

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Published September 29, 2026

Stoner Comics, also known as Tree Comics, are MS Paint-style web comics from 2010 that turn common weed experiences into short strips, with each panel bleeding into more psychedelic colors as the character gets higher. Born on 4chan and picked up by /r/trees and Tumblr, they also gave the stoner subculture its own slang, including the infamous "Widdly Scuds."

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Overview

Stoner Comics, also known as Tree Comics, follow a loose formula where a crude MS Paint character bumbles through a mundane situation while high, usually on cannabis but sometimes on other psychedelics3. The signature visual trick is color escalation: panels start in flat black and white, then bloom into brighter, trippier hues as the character lifts off, so the art itself mirrors the high3. Punchlines lean on paranoia, munchies, sensory distortion, and awkward run-ins with sober people.

The drawing style is deliberately amateurish, closer to a doodle than an inked comic, which lowered the bar for anyone with a mouse to make their own1. A famous entry has the character mid-smoke suddenly panicking with the caption "Oh fuck wait this shit is illegal," a strip that circulated widely on the dedicated Tumblr2. Another gave the community its own slang word, "Widdly Scuds," pulled from a strip about a stoner failing to order a bacon burrito at Taco Bell drive-thru5.

Origin & Background

Platform
4chan /b/ (creation), Reddit / Tumblr (viral spread)
Creator
Unknown
Date
2010

The earliest archived Stoner Comics appeared on 4chan's random board /b/ in early 2010, though the format is rumored to have first surfaced on the drug-focused imageboard 420chan sometime in 20093. One of the earliest documented references outside 4chan is an April 19, 2010 post on the marijuana-enthusiast subreddit /r/trees linking to a /b/ thread that was preserved on the now-defunct chanarchive1.

Because the strips were posted anonymously on 4chan, no single artist is credited with inventing the format. A parallel origin point is "Widdly Scuds," defined on Urban Dictionary on April 5, 2010 by user ontario, which pinned down the Taco Bell strip as a canonical entry in the series5.

How It Spread

On May 10, 2010, a dedicated Tumblr blog for Stoner Comics went live and started pulling in fan submissions, hosting canonical strips like "Oh fuck wait this shit is illegal"2. Copycat blogs with the same theme, including Fuck Yeah Stoner Comics and 420 Comics, followed the same template3.

Reddit's /r/trees, the main marijuana-fan community on the site, spun off a subreddit specifically for Tree Comics on July 14, 2010, which grew past 31,000 subscribers over the next five years3. Standalone fan sites also popped up: stonercomics.net collected community submissions, and treecomics.com was run as a personal gallery by a young artist who described themselves simply as "a kid who loves creating artwork and comics"4.

"Widdly Scuds" took on a life of its own, migrating from the source comic into general stoner slang for a botched fast-food order after smoking, with the Urban Dictionary entry racking up over 1,000 upvotes within five years5. The phrase kept turning up in Tumblr posts and 4chan threads long after the original strip stopped circulating3.

How to Use This Meme

A typical Stoner Comic is a 4-to-6 panel strip drawn in MS Paint or a similar basic editor. The common convention is to open in grayscale or muted tones showing an ordinary moment, then introduce cannabis, then let each following panel get more saturated and warped as the character sinks deeper into the high. Punchlines often land on an absurd non-sequitur, a food craving, or sudden paranoia. Fans typically share strips on /r/treecomics or reblog them through the Stoner Comics Tumblr network.

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