There's usually at least a month between me drawing characters and writing about them. I do not remember why this guy stood out to me enough to draw him.
You're probably (almost certainly) thinking to yourself "Isn't that just 2023-09-26 08:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
In the very niche industry of cataloguing Simpsons characters, today is a very exciting day. Well, "exciting" is relative I suppose. 99% of the Earth's population will find this very mundane. Hopefully you're in the 1%.
As Homer wakes up to discover he has hair, he prances through the streets gaily, greeting people excitedly. He passes Moes, our old friends 2023-09-25 08:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Dr Boyle is only identifiable by name from a little sign on his desk:
Sadly this offers no clues regarding his first name, so I'm gonna call him...Hypnos.
As Hypnos barely shows up again after this (more on that in a minute), I decided to also cover his snazzy Deep Throat-esque disguise he...
2023-09-21 08:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
This is another one of those instances where I make a post out of something so inconsequential that neither you, nor I, nor anyone else ever had ever noticed it before. But when else is the world going to get chance to celebrate Gorilla Man?
Perhaps in the world of The Simpsons, Gorilla Man is a...
2023-09-19 08:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
We've covered a few actors in our time covering the folk of Springfield, but unless they are real chameleons of their craft, I don't believe any 2023-09-18 08:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
As a reminder, these are the characters we are covering this week:
Nononono, not Bart, Lisa, Homer or Patti. These guys:
One contestant correctly answers two questions with "Bismarck" and "Green"...
2023-09-14 08:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
As decided by last weeks poll - the print this month will be "Choose Your Fighter"! This was a bunch of fun sprites I did for no real reason that people seemed to enjoy. The character choice was somewhat random, but I think people like that it's such an eclectic mix! I've never sone a pixelly-print like this, we'll see how it goes - there may be a slight delay with this one if I mess it up. But...
2023-09-12 08:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post
We're starting this episode on a very strange note.
"Simpson and Delilah" opens with the family watching "Grade School Challenge" on TV, and answering along with the questions. We hear the host ask the questions, we hear one contestant answer. And this is all we see of them:
But the holy r...
2023-09-11 08:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
I've enjoyed doing this project the whole time, but this episode is the most I've enjoyed it in a while! I'm invigorated to see where season two takes us. A couple of notes about this group of weirdos: yes, I've messed with Gorilla the Conqueror's scale so he'd fit in here. And yes, this is the most black and white characters we've covered. And also, yes, oddly, this is the most politicians we'...
2023-09-08 08:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
We started with an alternate Martin, we'll end with an alternate Martin. I think this is the first non-Simpson to get more than one alternate outfit.
So friggin' cool. Spoiler: it won't last.
This post is part of my "Every Simpsons Character Ever" series. For a list of my rules in this...
2023-09-07 08:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
He's not identified by name within the scene, but there's no denying who this is.
Key clues to his identity are the fact that he references his inventions and, you know, the fact that he looks like Benjamin Franklin.
I was getting a little tired of the almost monochrome colour palette so I...
2023-09-06 08:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
The last two guys were hard to pin down: this guy is IMPOSSIBLE.
It doesn't help that we don't get a full shot of his hair (let's face it, that's the main thing I've been going off to identify them). My best guess is that he's Roger Sherman:
2023-09-05 08:00:01 +0000 UTC
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This gentleman is quite cheery, excited about there being snow in the middle of July.
By my best guess, this guy could be:
Oliver Wolcott
2023-09-04 08:00:01 +0000 UTC
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SNEAKY SUNDAY UPDATE
This upcoming week is JAM PACKED with characters as we finish the first episode of season 2, but we have other important business to decide in the meantime, so I'm interrupting your pleasant Sunday with the vote for this month's Patron print.
If you don't know how this works: vote for your favourite design, and the winner of the poll (one week from now) will be ...
2023-09-03 14:27:48 +0000 UTC View Post
It's more difficult to pin these other speaking figures down as specific founding fathers, but the fact that they look so different from the generic big-nosed men suggests that perhaps they are intended as specific people.
A few suggestions as to who this could be, based on the assumption that w...
2023-08-31 08:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Another alternative version of Bart for our records (our third in this episode!)
Someday we'll have enough alternate versions of the main family for some kind of mega "Across The Simpsonverse" crossover event.
This post is part of my "Every Simpsons Character Ever" series. For a list o...
2023-08-30 08:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
There's no concrete evidence within the context of the scene that this is 100% confirmed to be Thomas Jefferson, but Jefferson is considered to be the primary author of the Declaration of Independence, so it seems only fair that he gets to be the one who reads it out.
Furthermore, this Simpsonif...
2023-08-28 08:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
By far this is the most significant character we'll be encountering in this episode, even if he's not the most important political figure we'll be seeing.
It's almost surreal that he doesn't show up until 249 characters in - if you'd asked me beforehand, I'd be sure he was a season 1 introductio...
2023-08-24 08:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
This third mother character does not get a line, but her bizarre early design meant I had to include her.
Spiky haired characters are a rarity, and as the show goes on we will see fewer and fewer designs that follow the rules of the core family, such as physics-defying spikes or hard ...
2023-08-23 08:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post
You may have noticed this lady in the last post, she speaks second. According to the subtitles her line is "Wear your galoshes!", which I never would have been able to decipher.
One thing we have not mentioned in our discussion of this episode is that it remains the most watched episode ever, with 33 million viewers on its original airing. For comparison, an average season 34 episode woul...
2023-08-21 08:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
I don't love defining characters like this by their parental status alone - it's possible this woman has a rich, full life outside of her child - but given her two seconds on screen, we have little to extrapolate from.
Given that she emerges from the blue house shown here, we can assume she is t...
2023-08-17 08:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
It seemed a waste to let this scene pass by without an exploration and celebration of some unique character designs:
I love the little bit of extra "old person" stank both voice actors put on their cha...
2023-08-16 08:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
I think over the years we'll encounter a whole bunch of next generation Simpson children, both non-canonical and semi-canonical, but here's the first - he's firmly in the "non-canonical" camp, being a figment of Bart's imagination.
I see on reflection that I have perhaps exaggerated his head siz...
2023-08-14 08:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Like Dr J Loren Pryor, Miss Phipps is designed as another potential recurring face for Springfield Elementary, and is soon forgotten. I can see the appeal - the idea of a school nurse who ove...
2023-08-10 08:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
As part of "Big Gorilla Week", Homer watches "Gorilla the Conqueror" with Bart, an obvious King Kong parody.
If I had time I would watch all 12 King Kong films and report back similarities between them and the three seconds of Gorilla the Conqueror we are shown but...er...I don't. At least this ...
2023-08-07 08:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
This falls under "is that REALLY a character, Cooper? REALLY?", but they make a wee distorted noise within the game, and they're adorable, so I'm including them. Plus, there's four of them! Now THAT'S value.
I don't know what makes them deadly. I'm not even 100% sure I know what mothballs are. Frankly, I don't wanna know.
This post is part of my "Every Simpsons Character Ever" s...
2023-08-03 08:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
It's the TWO YEAR anniversary of the Patreon! And that happened to coincide with the end of season one of this stupid project! So to celebrate, let's get a big ol' group shot of ever character introduced in season one of the Simpsons!
I think this is how I'll handle this sort of thing going forward, offering an A5 print at the end of each season. It'll be a while before we get to another,...
2023-08-02 08:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Sound the klaxon! Raise the flag! Ring the bell! It's the first B-B-B-BONUSES of season 2!
Martin gets a substantial role in this episode, and is the first character to actually appear in this episode.
I think he's actually meant to be dressed as Ernest Hemmingway, mainly because of the be...
2023-08-01 08:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
This feels WEIRD.
Most shows don't get this noticeable a shift between seasons. Perhaps I'm just so used to the common conception that season 1 is the "bad" early season, and it gets good after that, but season 2 already feels different, pretty much unanimously for the better. The writing is more confident, the jokes are slipping into more of a style we are used to, and the animation is m...
2023-07-31 08:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
PHEW!
I thought when we finished covering the Tracey Ullman shorts how ridiculous this was, and that doing an actual episode - never mind a full season - would be a battle. But here we...
2023-07-28 08:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post