DIB KEYCHAIN IS HERE!!!!!! 4 more to go.. i think to compensate for his vertical height i'm gonna make him 4 inches to make them look the same size (zim is 3.5 but his design has more horizontal width that dib's lacks)
Can you imagine if the Jhonen Vasquez thing happened today? There would be annoying scolds on this website saying he was problematic because he drew the murder comic but was working on a kid's show.
I'm glad this didn't happen today. The animation fandom would be even more insufferable than it is now.
One time on twitter I saw this totally bullshit “exposure/callout” thread on Jhonen Vasquez (it was so obviously false and stupid that it got zero attention) and yeah it was just a bunch of fake accusations with no valid looking evidence or sources. But. The thing that still gets me about it is that the person who made the thread was like a huge terf, so they decided to lie about Jhonen having a transgender wife. They spent like multiple tweets out of the entire thread just trash talking his nonexistent trans wife and calling her slurs. The only person who even bothered to give the thread any attention was obviously a friend/mutual of whoever posted it, who ALSO started shit talking Jhonen’s nonexistent trans wife. It was honestly fucking hilarious. I wish I could find it again but its likely lost to time/deleted, and I also don’t want to start internet beef with the type of person chronically online enough to dig up old photos of people to support fake accusations against a cartoonist.
"The funniest thing about Invader Zim is" no, the funniest thing about Invader Zim is Jhonen Vazquez's repeated insistence that Gaz was intended to be the normie sibling to Dib's baby's-first-cybergoth and that he genuinely never intended her to read as goth herself.
professional artists giving advice to younger artists: “don’t give up, don’t get discouraged when things don’t work out, keep practicing, surround yourself with supportive people”