Scott Adams actually can draw, though, albeit in his own crude style. His characters are always on-model and up to professional standards. Bill can't draw his own characters the same way twice and half the time they look literally like deformed retards. He has no grasp of expression whatsoever. He almost never draws backgrounds.
Not to mention dilbert is published what, 6 times a week compared to twice a month maybe
Dilbert is also a lot more enjoyable.
That's why I was surprised that Assigned Male was so much worse. You don't have to be a fantastic artist to get more comfortable drawing the same character. Their lines should be better/ more confident and they're not.
Why would an 11-year-old give a shit about any of these things? Like, wow, Stephie, you sure showed that kid who probably doesn’t even know who the Prime Minister is!
I love how Harry Potter’s always been unbelievably problematic in every way, but somehow they only realised this in the past 6 months.
I think a case in point is Charles M. Schultz, whose style got noticeably rougher, but whose skill in terms of composition only improved. By the end, his strips were barely planned - he drew freehand. The characters were always in-model. But that was because he did it every day for over 40 years.
I think we all know what kind of "mushrooms" he was looking for.
The author doesn't really understand what kids are into, likely because they probably spent their childhood as a friendless loser trying to convince their peers that they really were a girl, instead of just playing Pokemon, riding bikes, eating dirt, or other things kids normally did. I don't doubt a kid might be interested in mycology, but it's likely something they picked up from a parent, and not something they would rather do than meet up with their friends.
The premise of the joke is retarded. Not the "wanting to learn survival techniques"—that could be applied to any kid who goes through the boy scouts, which isn't really a good set up for a joke. The premise is that he learned some wacky mushroom gathering skill, which is so lel random guise!! But a kid in Canada (where I'm assuming the comic takes place) who wanted to learn food-finding skills would likely start with, I'm assuming, hunting.
So this may surprise you, but a lot of kids in Canada do start with Mushroom hunting.
Well, you learn something new every day. This does not improve my opinion of Canada in the least, though.
That’s a weird way of spelling “regret”.
Nah, gypsy means Romany whereas ”traveller” means Irish traveller (who are also called pikeys, but then again pikey can also be used to refer to chavs, so...)
Only in Leafland.
It's pretty creepy for a middle aged man to be going on about how sexy kids are.
I see Billy forgot that he started drawing the comic about gay cartoon animals slightly after Animal Crossing became hugely popular, which itself was due to lockdowns. A cynic might suggest that it was created specifically to cash in on the craze, and Labelle only stopped drawing it because it didn’t become that instant moneymaker.
I think Labelle has that Sonichu thing going on, where we’re just supposed to think characters are awesome, but we’re never shown why. Anyway, I look forward to the spin-off, where they can have such exciting adventures as talking about being trans, shooting down strawman arguments and getting reposted over and over again!
