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Well, I haven't heard how the show went last night but I got some orders at 6 am so I guess at least those few dug it. Also, Robert Lund signed up to my new animation list, which cracked me up. That's the cool part of being free from the weight of Ozzy on my shoulders--everybody is welcome to be on the new list that has a genuine interest in what I'm about to try to do. Republicans, Nazis, nice people, whomever. I might go looking for animation lists to piggyback on, and I might send mailers in the beginning unsolicited to people I want to check the stuff out, but it won't be the huge mass mailers unless or until a genuine mailing list builds by itself. If you're a friend of mine, you'll still be tortured by my publicity mailings, and maybe the peopole on my friends list here. And Frank Wood and RObert Lund for some reason. Those two might unsubscribe when they see it's going to be upfates on voice recording sessions and links to discarded pencil roughs of early character designs and other stuff only nerds like me would want to look at. The early cartoons are going to be too "precious" for anything outside of a niche audience, but I have to go with what's feasible and try towork my way to getting to do "real" animation shows.
Also, it's not going to be dirty or x-rated. No nudity, not even cursing except the curses they allow on prime time tv. I'm going to act like that's my audience for fun. I think the most shocking thing I could do right now would be to tell coherent, funny, entertaining stories about characters people grow to like. It's the last thing they expect from me.
I'm even trying to figure out a public image. If I don't have to be in public anymore, I might be willing to put a photo of myself on my site for the first time, but I have to decide first who I am, or who that public image is. I've never thought consciously about what I looked like before in my life so it feels phoney. In fact, it IS phoney but people want an image associated with the cartooning and I want to throw the dog a bone. Also, I'm going to want to do business with people which might require doing pitches and going to meetings. I need some look that lets them know they're dealing with a loony-toon, but one who gets his shit done. I remember Bob Clampett trying to look young with some sort of Beatles hairdo. I forgave him as a kid because I loved his cartoons. It depressed me because I knew someday I'd be faced with that same situation. How do you try to not look like a dork when you get old? Guys like Eric Clapton gave up and dorkified. SInce fans of Eric Clapton are such dorks, it didn't hurt his career. Same with Pink Floyd I guess. But my fans are cooler than that. I don't know, I want to be Uncle Andy and show them cool cartoons that only we get, nobody else understands. That's all, that's the entire new vision. From that standpoint,I can tell story after story about bullies, and that's all I was ever talking about in my political work anyway. I can do it the same telling stories set in a schoolyard or on the third moon of Nepptorr. If they want to kill me for saying bullies are bad, fine, but I'm going to try to give them a cuter image to kill. Let them kill Andy with the "I Love Grandma" sweatshirt instead of the Andy who wrestled women, so that they look like the bad guys after the fact and not me.
There, I've stated my strategy in advance in public, like a pitcher who tells a batter he's about to throw a fastball but you won't be able to hit it anyway. Does the pitcher throw a knuckleballl next or what? Maybe a slurveball...
Also, it's not going to be dirty or x-rated. No nudity, not even cursing except the curses they allow on prime time tv. I'm going to act like that's my audience for fun. I think the most shocking thing I could do right now would be to tell coherent, funny, entertaining stories about characters people grow to like. It's the last thing they expect from me.
I'm even trying to figure out a public image. If I don't have to be in public anymore, I might be willing to put a photo of myself on my site for the first time, but I have to decide first who I am, or who that public image is. I've never thought consciously about what I looked like before in my life so it feels phoney. In fact, it IS phoney but people want an image associated with the cartooning and I want to throw the dog a bone. Also, I'm going to want to do business with people which might require doing pitches and going to meetings. I need some look that lets them know they're dealing with a loony-toon, but one who gets his shit done. I remember Bob Clampett trying to look young with some sort of Beatles hairdo. I forgave him as a kid because I loved his cartoons. It depressed me because I knew someday I'd be faced with that same situation. How do you try to not look like a dork when you get old? Guys like Eric Clapton gave up and dorkified. SInce fans of Eric Clapton are such dorks, it didn't hurt his career. Same with Pink Floyd I guess. But my fans are cooler than that. I don't know, I want to be Uncle Andy and show them cool cartoons that only we get, nobody else understands. That's all, that's the entire new vision. From that standpoint,I can tell story after story about bullies, and that's all I was ever talking about in my political work anyway. I can do it the same telling stories set in a schoolyard or on the third moon of Nepptorr. If they want to kill me for saying bullies are bad, fine, but I'm going to try to give them a cuter image to kill. Let them kill Andy with the "I Love Grandma" sweatshirt instead of the Andy who wrestled women, so that they look like the bad guys after the fact and not me.
There, I've stated my strategy in advance in public, like a pitcher who tells a batter he's about to throw a fastball but you won't be able to hit it anyway. Does the pitcher throw a knuckleballl next or what? Maybe a slurveball...