Everything I draw ends up wearing a bow-tie

Anonymous asked: DID YOU MAKE THE SHADOWS LOOK LIKE AN EXCLAMATION POINT BC

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thefloatingstone asked: You have no idea how happy I am to hear you like duck comics too ;w; and I am equally angry I didn't make the Gladstone Gander connection myself. Because now it seems so obvious. Maybe because RGB is a little nicer than how insufferable Gladstone is? And I'm always on Donald's side.

Yeah, Gladstone is pretty insufferable- this is what I mean by ‘the back of my mind’, it’s not like he was my no.1 model for RGB (heck you guys know all that already right), more like he was one of those ‘flavors’ that went into the melting pot. He’s just one of several hundred kind-of-obvious-when-you-know-them influences; like Number 6 from The Prisoner and Bert from Mary Poppins.

Anonymous asked: oh goodness you like Ducktales I can't believe, have you read any of the Italian comics? do you like Don Rosa too?

I do, I have but not nearly enough of them, and absolutely

(actually on that note does anyone know good places to read/purchase the Italian comics in English because god I miss them and I want to read as many as I can)

l-mako asked: Happy Birthday Hero! Thank you for this wonderful story :3

oh my word IT IS HER BIRTHDAY

I’ll try to draw her something later, but thank you! and aaa

TPoH: just a PSA!

Unrelated to everything else, can I just whisper a few words in those shell-pink ears of yours, Tellyheads? Because I love you and you know that, but I have had rather disappointing news lately about less-than lovely behaviour. So far as I know you’ve been wonderful as a fandom so far, and I really, really want it to stay as a chill and friendly club and not a… well, let’s just say I want it to stay that way as much as possible. 

The thing I need to say is RGB is not, will never be, has never been, the only character with television for a head to exist. I didn’t even know object heads, as a category of character design, existed! Until I fell down the rabbit hole of drawing this guy on a whim, and now look where we are. The thing is, there are a lot, and I mean a lot, of other people who have characters with television sets for heads out there; some who designed them before me, some after, but like, 99% of the time they will never ever have heard of or read TPoH or be basing it off RGB, so going out to them and accusing them of it is… not nice. Please, don’t do that. 

It’s very hurtful to have someone say to you that your original, personal, deeply-thought-out design is a copy of someone else’s, and worse still if you’re told that you’re bad and should stop drawing them. It happens to all of us at some point! Heck, when I started TPoH I was asked so often if I’d read Saga that I’ve effectively been put off from doing so (but I hope I’ll get over that because I’m sure it’s awesome, really), but nobody told me to stop drawing. Even if a character was inspired by RGB, it has inspired a person to make something, another new character! And I’m all about that; if you’ve been reading the comic, you’ll know that! Unless the character is very obviously a trace-job of him (and even then people learn by copying so like, whatever) or recolouring entire pages and I saying ‘I did this’, I’m happy for them to be doing their own thing! Yes, their are copycats out there, but there is such a thing as coincidence, and zeitgeist, and luck. 

Most of you folks likely know that Charles Darwin got his celeb on by publishing a paper called ‘On the Origin of Species’; well, some of you clever cookies might also know that another dude submitted a paper with almost exactly the same theory at exactly the same time. The only reason we know about Darwin’s theory of Evolution, and not the other guy, is because Darwin’s name appeared first alphabetically. Same goes for this trope- dude with TV head takes a protagonist to another world on a zany adventure. There can be ten thousand differences in the two stories from this point. Story structures like this overlap and coincide all the time, and the two writers making these stories can have absolutely no connection to each other. I kind of side with the idea that some stories just, exist outside of us- outside of people, and wander down from their hammock in the sky and sit on a person one day saying “hey, write me.” How that person goes about it, however, it up to the person. If someone else had started their version of this story before me, I’d be the one being slandered for pinching their idea.

So, TL:DR- I know the people that this addresses acted with good intentions, but don’t be hasty, and don’t be mean? Please. I want this story and its following to be a not mean place for people. That would be really nice.

hey folks just an update on my health- general consensus is that I had some form of seizure. GP is referring me to a specialist and we’ll see what happens, but they’re actually a lot more common than people think and as I’ve never had one before (barring these sorts of incidents and like, two migraines) we don’t think I’m at high risk, and it might have been triggered by stress amongst other things. Thanks for asking after me and being patient, I’m still feeling a bit fragile from it all so I don’t know how much extra stuff I can draw for you guys but I promise I’m working hard on TPoH for the weekend.