Some languages, such as Mandarin Chinese, treat all nouns as mass nouns, and need to make use of a noun classifier (see Chinese classifier) to add numerals and other quantifiers.
Could be that the artist speaks one of those.
EDIT: And not all languages have the definite/indefinite article distinction in English. I’ve seen some Russian-language speakers in particular have trouble with that.
EDIT2: It sounds like the artist was born in Russia prior to emigrating to the US, so I’d guess that he might speak Russian.
Shen (also known as Shenanigansen) is the pen name of cartoonist Andrew Tsyaston, the creator of the comic series Owlturd, Shen Comix, and Bluechair, and the co-creator of Live with Yourself!.
Born: Andrew Tsyaston February 1, 1992 (age 34)
Shen emigrated from Europe to the United States with his family in 1999.[3][4]
Shen (aka Shenanigansen / Andrew Tsyaston) is an Russian-born American webcomic creator.
So he’s probably been speaking English for a long time, though he would probably have been speaking Russian until he was seven.
EDIT3: I’m not gonna try to track down the exact date of publication, but the earliest copy Tineye has seen is from 2020, so I doubt that it’s a really old comic from when he was a lot younger.
EDIT4: It’s a modified version of the original comic, so the text isn’t from the original artist:
Some languages apparently don’t have countable nouns.
Could be that the artist speaks one of those.
EDIT: And not all languages have the definite/indefinite article distinction in English. I’ve seen some Russian-language speakers in particular have trouble with that.
EDIT2: It sounds like the artist was born in Russia prior to emigrating to the US, so I’d guess that he might speak Russian.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shen_(cartoonist)
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Creator/Shen
So he’s probably been speaking English for a long time, though he would probably have been speaking Russian until he was seven.
EDIT3: I’m not gonna try to track down the exact date of publication, but the earliest copy Tineye has seen is from 2020, so I doubt that it’s a really old comic from when he was a lot younger.
EDIT4: It’s a modified version of the original comic, so the text isn’t from the original artist:
https://x.com/shenanigansen/status/1280119418496921600
https://lemmy.today/pictrs/image/a85692c7-62e0-4b22-a733-62ba4a02b54b.jpeg