jthrash 2024-05-16 12:20:24

Playing Persona 3 FES was an interesting experience for me partly because I used my regular name for the character I was playing as and, as a result, my party members kept calling me "Jeffrey-kun" and "Jeffrey-senpai." No "Jeffrey-san" or "Jeffrey-sensei," sadly, because the P3 protagonist was just some punk kid, not an adult.

jthrash 2024-05-19 02:31:04

Thank you! And don't worry too much about me becoming another "John Kricfalusi." A few things to put your mind at ease...
1) "Ren and Stimpy" was actually the one '90's Nickelodeon cartoon my Mom wouldn't let me watch, and most of my early memories were in the very tail-end of the '90's, so my art style is perhaps more directly compared to later "gross-out" Nicktoons like CatDog or knock-offs like Cartoon Network's "Cow and Chicken". I remember being surprised in college when people were comparing my art style to Ren and Stimpy for that reason. It's more like my art style was heavily influenced by early SpongeBob (which some people claim to this day is a "Ren and Stimpy" rip-off), inevitably taken to a gross extreme compared to that relatively-tamer cartoon.
2) I am not attracted to younger women. Like, at all. Certainly not pimply-faced teenage girls that scream in excitement too much about "Twilight" or Taylor Swift or whatever, arguably even when I was a pimply-faced teenage boy myself back in the day. If anything, I tend to be more attracted to women a bit older than me. Either way, most jobs I've worked at have had strict rules against dating co-workers, so I've been trained to separate work from pleasure and look elsewhere (like dating apps and singles meetups, for better or worse) for said pleasure than the workplace.
3) On a somewhat related note, I don't really have an urge or desire to draw NSFW or pretty ladies all that much, and don't like being aroused by my own drawings in general for whatever reason. So while I've clearly got the "gross-ups" down pat, I'll never re-create Spumco or John K's tendency to draw impossibly-beautiful cartoon women. I also just feel, for the sake of gender equality, my female character designs should be just as repulsive as most of my male character designs, and if I do draw a more conventionally-attractive female character like Annie May Arc, then I should give women or gay men the same "eye candy" I've long enjoyed as a straight man, like that "StikStuk" parody comic where I drew the main character (the "Fiddle Faddle!" guy, I already forgot the name of my own creation) as really buff for no reason.

Hope this puts your mind at ease a bit and allows you to better enjoy my bizarre art style without guilt...

jthrash 2024-05-19 15:02:07

Don't worry, Ozempic will solve everything. Assuming Pikachu can afford it on his own, of course, he ain't getting any help from the US government, especially if the GOP regains Congress and the Presidency...

jthrash 2024-05-19 15:02:53

Let's stop giving John K. the attention he craves. I'd rather hope to be compared with Stephen Hillenburg or Joe Murray one day.