Everything I draw ends up wearing a bow-tie

Anonymous asked: When do RGB and Hero have/had birthdays? (sorry for English if not correct ;w;)

Hero’s Birthday is/was the 10th of February

RGB’s is/was the 21st of May :D

Anonymous asked: hello! so I might be being petty, but on your Smackjeeves TPoH site under the title bar most people have a little description of the comic, and yours just says 'a voyage'. Is there any reason you used voyage? I mean I get the gist, but I would have thought 'journey' was the more obvious choice?

Obvious choices aren’t as much fun as carefully considered ones.

Anonymous asked: Hey, so, uhm, I just read back a loooong long ways through your blog (which I love) and I found out you said Hero's mother is from Kolkata originally? Which is kind of awesome to me, being Indian myself (from Guwahati, hello from my country!), I was just wondering, is there any particular basis for it?

Hello to your country too! Wow, it’s always so exciting to find out where my readers are based, and yes there is a reason; Hero’s mother works for a newspaper as an editor and is a very open minded, quick-witted woman. She’s very clever, liberal, and loves to tell stories! I always knew she would be from India, but after doing some more extensive research I thought it would makes sense for her to be from Kolkata; I hope that you agree, and thank you so much for reading!

Anonymous asked: Um, hi, ah, excuse me please, um, I would like to ask why RGB doesn't really seem to wear socks? If it's too spoilery or anything that's okay, you don't have to answer! I just thought it might get a little uncomfortable, ah, with those shoes, um, for him, sometimes, but, ah, yeah... t-thank you! I love reading TPoH! ^////^ -a slightly shy person

Ahaha! Interesting; you’re the first person to ask about that, actually! Had a few people asking about Hero, but not RGB- anyway, I won’t answer directly (do I ever) but there might be a bit of clue as to why coming up in the next few pages…

demoni asked: I just saw the ask about RGB being able to ice skate and I was actually planning on asking the same thing - so instead I will ask, can Hero ice skate? Does she like to if she can?

Nope. She has no idea how, but she’ll try anything! And she sticks at it until she gets it right, no matter how hard it is.

Anonymous asked: scrolling back through all your posts like a boss I noticed you mention you partly based RGB's physique off figure ice skaters, so... can he ice skate?

Well that’s partly true; RGB’s build has influence from a lot of places, but the gist was for him to be short, elegantly proportioned and athletic. He also has quite dynamic movement, so researching figure skaters made a lot of sense. As for the question, yes! But he’s better at and prefers roller skating (blades on shoes- no thanks).

THANK YOU KIND PERSON FOR ASKING THIS QUESTION AGAIN anyway this would still work better if I had the time to animate it to demonstrate, but personally I imagine it to move like a music visualizer. The core shape is always driven by his ‘expression’, but when he speaks the line pulses as it matches the sounds in that slightly jerky drifty way that audio bars do.

it does it does it does

okay too lazy/tired to colour this one but Hero would be a bear and RGB is a scraggy boney-butt coyote :T