My way of creating mature stuff that’s as not “cheesy” or “edge lord-ish” as possible is, separating what I make happen in the story and how explicit the way you convey that event is in the artwork.

For example, I can write a story of a guy looking for love.

This simple concept can be used to create both family friendly and adults only content.

To make it dark, violent or sexual, I shall express the character’s journey with depictions of flirting, kissing, having sex or arguing with his partner.

On the other hand, if it was supposed to be for younger audience, the methods above should be replaced with depictions children can understand easily.

I strongly believe that the plot, universe, characters, goals and all the stuffs forming the show must not be vulgarity itself but something “meaningful”. It’s, like I’ve said, the way you show how everything goes. If a story is all about someone hooking up with multiple girls, the show is very likely to end up being like garbage such as Paradise PD and other Netflix’s generic comedy shows. They claim to be funny and dark at the same time but we perceive them as childish while being so kid-unfriendly.

Since I don’t know what you exactly want to make, finding out how you will create using this technique is your job. Hope what I said helps.

well, don't overdose on shock value, make sure you know if you want to do 14+, 18+ or STRICTLY SAUSAGE PARTY/DRAWN TOGETHER NOT FOR KIDS.... and always know when you've gone too far!

make sure the themes are intact, don't force a thing like a Drug moral or an Abortion arc, don't make a Cerebus syndrome

nightmare (that's when you stop being funny and you switch between serious and funny ala' an old comic about an Aardvark) be sure to make all your themes about things like Racism and all that not sacrifice the comedy, study the humor of Simpsons; the FOX brainwashing jokes for instance.

if the plan is to do South Park coat tail dragging, don't make ...look, if your plan is to be like South Park BE MORE

ON YOUR TWO FEET! WHY OUT-SOUTH PARK SOUTH PARK, WHEN YOU COULD BE SO MUCH BETTER THAN THAT!? example of what I mean: if you look at Rick and Morty ....you'll see it's just Family Guy meets Futurama.

but then it turned into so much more than that, aside being Back to the future meets Doctor Who on acid.

if you want to make the art style good, let's see it. if your idea is to have blood and guts do it in a simple style.

art styles like anime are chuck full of realistic violence like Ghost in the shell or berserk...which makes it more shocking in the long run. Archer is kind of uber sexual and its realistic style.... just doesn't justify its humor so if push comes to shove,

don't do comedy if you don't want to. even Batman can be adult sometimes.

:)

one thing you need to keep in mind is that you don't even need dialouge in an adult cartoon! look at primal! almost no dialouge!

remember Flow?

I should probably have more advice, but uh......do what you will with what I told you guys, kay?

thank you.