Anonymous asked: I was wondering, you get a lot of comments and asks about the comic and your work, but are there any that you get a lot that you dislike? just want to avoid any pet peeves or words you don't enjoy :'D
What an interesting question! Honestly most of the messages I get are unique and very lovely, and really just anyone taking the time so say a nice thing in whatever way they choose is amazing so I’m always grateful even if I can’t get around to answering them all.
If I really had to pick one thing that people say/have said which irritates me it would be the classic “what kind of drugs were you on when you wrote this/you must have been high to come up with this stuff” comment. It’s not just when people say it about my work either; it gets said about a lot of surreal art and imaginative things in general, and it just makes me incredibly sad to think that a person would suppose you have to be influenced by drugs to come up with anything remotely wild or unusual.
It says more about the commenter than the artist, I know, and I guess it’s largely meant as a joke, but it still sucks the innocent fun out of the work and takes the credit of having an independently functioning brain away from the artist. It also kind of makes me worry that some people really do suppose that the only way they can make something wacky and imaginative is to take something, which is nonsense and for the record I have never taken anything stronger than ibuprofen. Heck I don’t even like the taste of alcohol I am literally a giant goober child- you want to see me high just give me some sherbet and a box set of cartoons that’ll do it.
So yeah TL:DR I ain’t hating on anyone’s lifestyle choices just don’t say that junk it cheeses a lot of us creative types off
Anonymous asked: I'm sorry I know you said you wouldn't say any more but I'm Ivorian and this is so exciting to me! and is Julienne made of candy because it used to be also known as the Cote des Dents?? Or is it to do with it producing a lot of the world's cocoa these days?
BOTH
I CAN’T BELIEVE YOU GOT THAT SO FAST
I’M EXCITED TOO
Anonymous asked: Where is Julienne from? Or, I guess, if she had ever been a human from our world where would she be from?
The Ivory Coast/the Republic of Côte d'Ivoire
Anonymous asked: so I know Julienne's wings are cotton candy and the knives are chocolate, and Hero likes her voice, so does that mean her voice is 'sugary'? Also, what are the ribbons made of- are they edible too?
I prefer to think of her voice as sounding rich and ‘chocolatey’, but it’s up to your own interpretation really! Julienne’s ribbons are made of a sort of a hybrid between strawberry laces and fruit-by-the-foot, so yes, they are also made out of candy!
Anonymous asked: can we have a full sized view of RGB from one of those panels because gosh DANG
! well sure okay but idk which one you’d like
okay quick vote while I go and pack for hols people; which panel do you want a full size crop of out of 1 through to 8 (yeah I know he’s not in the first one but it’ll get confusing otherwise) DONE IT
Anonymous asked: This may sound really weird and I hope I'm not bothering you but the other night I had a dream that I met you in a Mexican restaurant. (I love your work, by the way. The Property of Hate has become my life, which at least explains part of the dream...)
actually you might well have done because I did dream that I ate burritos last night sorry dude I crashed your mindscape
Anonymous asked: okay I admit it I was going to be that smug anon who was going to poitn out that pic you drew for the trade is wrong because the rope holding Mabel and the cake up is diagonal not straight down but then I fuckin see it's a triangle and the light is the eye and the fucking whole thing is a picture of Bill Cipher gfdit Mod I nearly bit my tongue
omg anon no I’m sorry I did kind of throw the laws of physics under a bus for that composition it’s alright buddy
Anonymous asked: wait does Hero like Luigi because her favourite colour is green and her dad is a janitor is thAT
anon you are my absolute favourite for getting that without my help
Anonymous asked: patiently waits to see if you're going to watch The Book of Life ''''
I WANT TO SO BADLY but it’s not out in the UK yet friend so please be kind to your transatlantic fellows and tag your spoilers!
Anonymous asked: do you have an opinion on people being upset at other people in the fandom in the TPoH tag(s)?
wow has it actually got to that stage IS THAT A MARK OF SUCCESS OR
anyway an opinion, er, not really? I can’t control what people think or what they’re going to say- unless the person is upsetting a lot of people it’s not my business. You guys are allowed to discuss and debate things as much as you like, and so long as nobody is actively harassing people or making things really awkward I’d rather try to stay out of it tbh (and honestly I don’t even know how much I could do to help with that) \o/