Anonymous asked: Hey Mod! I just wanted to say I'm a college student currently attended for comic art for a Masters of Fine Arts degree and The Property of Hate is the center of my research and thesis topic because it's been really inspiring to me and my work for years. Thank you for making something so thought provoking and inspirational!
sometimes I think there is nothing that can possibly surprise me any more then I get a message like this
Anonymous asked: is it your brithday soon? I seem to remember it's around now but I never remember in time and I want to draw you a thing in time! can you please tell me when it is? :o
HGHRHGFGH THAT’S MEAN bc I don’t want folks to go abananas you all give me so much joy already, but since you asked so nicely it is on the 6th of March and i love you
Anonymous asked: HEY I know these messages are aaaaannnoooyyyinng just from consistency but I have EDS as well and love the parlor tricks but everything else not so much, and UH anyway, I have like? Specific vitamins that I take that really help me and my fucking ankles. So if u wanna hear about that then say so? Don’t wanna trigger a deluge of unwanted advice in ur inbox,
gimme the info my rubberhose syndrome bro. vitamins are good and at this point I will take any advice with decent basis
Anonymous asked: I don't know if I could ever get the sound I made across when I found out that you ran the Jervis Tetch blog I loved so many years ago.
o shit yeah that was some fun huh
Anonymous asked: I dont know if its just me, but when I click the link to go to the new page on the TPoH website, it just shows last weeks page? And there's no arrow at the bottom to go to the next. If this is just me, I'm super sorry for bothering you, but if it isn't, I thought I'd let you know.
fixed it! sorry
Anonymous asked: hm i noticed that the marks inside time's ear isn't there in the page- is that intentional?
oh. shoot no that’s not on purpose. sadly my hands are really heckin broken atm- I’ll try to remember to fix that later when I can draw again but uh please ignore that oversight folks :’D
Anonymous asked: do you ever feel to the deep, unrelenting urge to become snufkin?
you mean there are people who don’t?
Anonymous asked: I hope that it's okay to ask about your duck comics? Because I love them! I haven't felt such a deep connection with duck stories since I was a lot younger, but you write and draw as well as Don Rosa and you two are my favourite duck storytellers right now. I started to like Gladstone and Magica a lot more after reading your comics! (Sorry if I get the names wrong, my dumb Finnish brain literally didn't realize that the characters have different names in English and was so confused at first)
*me, 2 minutes ago* hm man I’m tired but maybe i’ll check my inbox before going to bed : )
*me, presently on the verge of tears lying on my side giving a thumbs up at the screen* g ood ? good. im. verythanks
Anonymous asked: Hey, you know how there were a bunch of comics, printed in Brazil in the 1960's, though I think they were actually made by Americans, where Magica and Madam Mim lived together, in a castle? No offense to Magicstone but I kinda used to think they were a lesbian couple. Thoughts?
completely valid and tbh who doesn’t love Madam Mim
Anonymous asked: hey so THANK YOU for getting me into duck comics, they are so good! except, is it just me or have the recent IDW comics been uh... really boring? I know you don't like talking negatively about stuff it just feels like, the stories you write are so much more energetic and like the older ones which tackled more interesting subjects
you caught me- I’ve been hesitating on commenting on it bc of personal reasons but, you know? when you’re right you’re right. The writing has had a significant drop in quality, and looking into it there’s a clear change in who the writing/editing team was before and is now- not to say the new writers are to blame, where the pressure and direction for the stories is coming from is always hard to say, but it’s clear that something has happened. It feels like whoever is writing now is targeting a much younger (maybe preschool) audience, but the reason the stories always appealed to me and everyone else is because they didn’t talk down to me as a child, and don’t dull down characters or story topics based off who is ‘expected’ to read them.
Much as with the best ‘children’s’ books, they are universally beloved and successful because they’re just damned good books! It’s a shame to see it, and bizarre, when you see how the European comics still strive to push boundaries and make things that are explorative as well as compelling in a narrative sense. I’m not sure who should be held to account or who needs to hear the feedback, but I think at this point the only way to get the stories back to the quality they used to be is to talk about it. Not unkindly, no raging hoards with pitch forks, but just, make it known that it’s disappointing for the people who have always loved them and off-putting to new would-be readers.