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i'm trying to get my head around what chris was doing the past few days
it starts with him bitching that he needs money for bills and shit, and he wont start a patreon because he has nothing to give in return (like that would stop him)
then he has a new toy and a patreon despite having nothing to give in return
 
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I've been following the developments on this board and on Sonichu.com for a couple of years now with a combination of morbid curiosity, enormous amusement and deep, soul-grinding horror, and I thought it was high time I shared some details of my own (admittedly minor) brush with Mr Chandler.

I won't bore you with the details, but I've been a professional cartoonist and writer since the age of fifteen. In short, I know my stuff. I know what works and what doesn't.

Sometime in around 2006-7, a friend of mine sent me a link to Chris's Sonichu comics, informing me that 'this is the worst shit I've ever seen and probably the worst you'll ever see'. He wasn't entirely wrong, of course, but I did see a slender ray of hope for Chris's comic. I decided to e-mail him some pointers on how he could improve his strips - the usual stuff, such as laying out the pages in pencil first, investing in good quality art materials, planning the stories and dialogue in advance, improving his line work and use of space and so on. The kind of stuff any good editor will tell an aspiring cartoonist right off the bat. I also advised him that as long as his USP was a mash-up of two pre-existing characters, he'd never be taken seriously. Imagine an aspiring strip cartoonist approaching United Features Syndicate with a combination of Snoopy and Garfield called Garpy or Snoofield, a cat-dog hybrid who hates Mondays and sleeps on a roof. You'd be laughed out of the building. I made this very point in my e-mail, and I wasn't rude, condescending or mean.

The very next day, Chris replied. "I have over a billion fans and I don't need your DAMN ADVICE".

That was the entire text of his e-mail. I tried to help him, in the nicest way I know how, and that was how he responded. I know I'm preaching to the converted here, but white knights are basically wasting their time. Chris doesn't need your DAMN ADVICE.

Anyway, it's good to be here, and I look forward to further developments...
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Yes of course I read all of that.
 
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MediExcalibur2012 said:
Please tell me you can deliver a screenshot of that email
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I wish I could! Unfortunately Chris's e-mail bit the dust when my old e-mail account did.

I still say Chris's artwork isn't entirely terrible. If it was the work of, say, a ten or eleven year old, I'd think it was pretty good. The terrible thing is that he reached a certain level of competence all those years ago and he hasn't moved forward an inch or put in any of the necessary practice or time to improve on what he does. It's as if Bob or Barb or maybe a teacher or classmate told him 'your cartoons are really good' at some stage, and Chris took that to mean 'My work is brilliant, I have no room or need for improvement, I am now a top-notch artist'.
 
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TedBovisUK said:
I wish I could! Unfortunately Chris's e-mail bit the dust when my old e-mail account did.

I still say Chris's artwork isn't entirely terrible. If it was the work of, say, a ten or eleven year old, I'd think it was pretty good. The terrible thing is that he reached a certain level of competence all those years ago and he hasn't moved forward an inch or put in any of the necessary practice or time to improve on what he does. It's as if Bob or Barb or maybe a teacher or classmate told him 'your cartoons are really good' at some stage, and Chris took that to mean 'My work is brilliant, I have no room or need for improvement, I am now a top-notch artist'.
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My guess that they knew he was autistic in high school so when he presented his artwork; they took it into heart not to make him feel like crap.

Thanks also to Barb and that's why he's still pushing forward something he made in high school to a now 34 year old man



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Does anyone know much or anything about this? Looks abandoned
 
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I apologise if this has already been covered, but how much of Monty Python's Flying Circus do you think Chris actually 'gets'? From what I've seen / heard / read about him, he doesn't seem to have much of a sense of humour at all, which doesn't surprise me because of the whole emotional coldness thing that's part and parcel of autism, and although he's ripped off a lot of the show's catchphrases and even tried to replicate the show in one of his videos (with 'mixed' results, to put it mildly), I just don't think it's the kind of thing he'd really enjoy. I'd have him down as more of a Benny Hill guy.
 
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I apologise if this has already been covered, but how much of Monty Python's Flying Circus do you think Chris actually 'gets'? From what I've seen / heard / read about him, he doesn't seem to have much of a sense of humour at all, which doesn't surprise me because of the whole emotional coldness thing that's part and parcel of autism, and although he's ripped off a lot of the show's catchphrases and even tried to replicate the show in one of his videos (with 'mixed' results, to put it mildly), I just don't think it's the kind of thing he'd really enjoy. I'd have him down as more of a Benny Hill guy.
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chris' humor seems to be basically
a. people do strange things
b. words rhyme

that's about it
 
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TedBovisUK said:
I apologise if this has already been covered, but how much of Monty Python's Flying Circus do you think Chris actually 'gets'?
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I think he's attracted to the randomness, and to the stuff that appears random because he just doesn't understand it. Monty Python has a lot of both, because it also has a lot of topical references that won't be familiar to most of its American audience.
 
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TedBovisUK said:
I've been following the developments on this board and on Sonichu.com for a couple of years now with a combination of morbid curiosity, enormous amusement and deep, soul-grinding horror, and I thought it was high time I shared some details of my own (admittedly minor) brush with Mr Chandler.

I won't bore you with the details, but I've been a professional cartoonist and writer since the age of fifteen. In short, I know my stuff. I know what works and what doesn't.

Sometime in around 2006-7, a friend of mine sent me a link to Chris's Sonichu comics, informing me that 'this is the worst shit I've ever seen and probably the worst you'll ever see'. He wasn't entirely wrong, of course, but I did see a slender ray of hope for Chris's comic. I decided to e-mail him some pointers on how he could improve his strips - the usual stuff, such as laying out the pages in pencil first, investing in good quality art materials, planning the stories and dialogue in advance, improving his line work and use of space and so on. The kind of stuff any good editor will tell an aspiring cartoonist right off the bat. I also advised him that as long as his USP was a mash-up of two pre-existing characters, he'd never be taken seriously. Imagine an aspiring strip cartoonist approaching United Features Syndicate with a combination of Snoopy and Garfield called Garpy or Snoofield, a cat-dog hybrid who hates Mondays and sleeps on a roof. You'd be laughed out of the building. I made this very point in my e-mail, and I wasn't rude, condescending or mean.

The very next day, Chris replied. "I have over a billion fans and I don't need your DAMN ADVICE".

That was the entire text of his e-mail. I tried to help him, in the nicest way I know how, and that was how he responded. I know I'm preaching to the converted here, but white knights are basically wasting their time. Chris doesn't need your DAMN ADVICE.

Anyway, it's good to be here, and I look forward to further developments...
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Back when Little Big Planet first came out he was asking for various costume DLC, I had got a spare code which I got for free and decided to send it to Chris and instead of a thanks or something I got a list of the other DLC I could get for him, Chris is quite the person to deal with.
 
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