Inky Tomes

imagine if the oceans were replaced by forests and if you went into the forest the trees would get taller the deeper you went and there’d be thousands of undiscovered species and you could effectively walk across the ocean but the deeper you went, the darker it would be and the animals would get progressively scarier and more dangerous and instead of whales there’d be giant deer and just wow

you have a beautiful imagination

these were such a massive fad just before I was born that I grew up still seeing dusty old weepuls in older people’s houses and office spaces. There were weepuls around my grade school, the library and doctor’s offices that must have been there for years. Now I don’t see weepuls anywhere at all. New ones or old ones. This is why the world is evil now actually.

Oh, they used these things to bribe children into selling magazine subscriptions in school fundraising drives in the 90′s! I showed this to my husband and it unlocked the same memories for him! They’d give you a reference sheet of all the potential ones you could earn if you met a certain sales goal. I distinctly remember the big plastic bag of these things they hauled out, they were “plain” Weepuls (as in, none of the “cool” ones that had like, sunglasses or something) they handed out as a consolation prize for the kids that didn’t make the sales goal. Mine was yellow.

This is incredible work!! Absolutely gorgeous!

If y’all can’t boycott Starbucks and McDonald’s what use are you really? Because these aren’t places that you NEED (do not bean soup this post I’m so serious) what do you have that’s a NEED from Starbucks?? Exactly.

list and link to bds re: boycotting : https://bdsmovement.net/get-involved/what-to-boycott

I've missed seeing your comics so much!

Thanks :) I'm planning on coming back to it in a big way this year.

YAY! I was thinking about this comic too and I also missed it! Good to see them again!!

It's interesting to compare this with French-language comics where often the rights to the series are tied to a publisher who will have different authors work on it over the years, but the rights for secondary characters created by that author remain with the author, which if no agreement is reached can result in an entire roster of secondary characters dropping out of existence with no explanation between two stories as the previous author leaves and takes their characters with them. Thus the series Spirou and Fantasio's most iconic run was that of Franquin (from 1948 to 1968) (the character of Spirou was first created in 1938), who created most of the series's iconic secondary characters, including the marsupilami, their weird monkey-marsupial-like animal companion. Then when Franquin was succeeded by Fournier, none of the secondary characters created by the former could be used, so they just stopped appearing. There was no explanation or even mention of them, the comic was now effectively taking place in a different reality with an entirely new cast of secondary characters that everyone acted as if they were already established. Then after Fournier left in 1980, this happened again with his characters, and so the new authors Nic & Cauvin had to create again a set of secondary characters from scratch and act as if they had been there all along with no acknowledgement of previous characters. However, when Nic & Cauvin left in 1984 and Tome & Janry took over, Dupuis managed to negotiate with Franquin (who was still alive and doing his own stuff) for the right to re-use most of his secondary characters, so at that point the comic reverted, again with no explanation, to the "classic" cast — except for the marsupilami who Franquin wanted to keep the rights of because he had his own standalone series, and would not appear in another Spirou story again except for a one-off in 2016.