Hey everyone, just a quick update:
Normally the Patreon Prints go out ar the start of the month but because of the recent cyber attack on the Royal Mail, there will be a delay before I can get them out this time. I’m hoping it won’t be long but I don’t know for sure.
I wanted to make sure people were aware of this before they are charged, sorry for any inconvenience.
2023-01-31 14:33:17 +0000 UTC View Post
Adrian is the last of Bart's photography chums that we have not covered from this scene:
If you're wondering who the gentleman is between Adrian and Long-Face Girl, 2023-01-30 09:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Shock and scandal! Angry mob rages as Cooper covers character he had already covered months ago!
2023-01-26 09:00:01 +0000 UTC
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I glossed over this guy and his porcupine-like appearance earlier because he actually does get a line in this episode:
The lip-sync is off but he says "She wants ya, Homer!" in a voice that is unlike the Lenny/Carl voices established in this scene, so I'm saying this guy gets a line, and is fore...
2023-01-23 09:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
It's a tale as old as time: animators are extremely horny. It's clear that some people enjoy drawing scenes like this (and more power to them!):
Shauna is one of those characters caught right in the midpoint of prominence and obscurity. I think most Simpsons fans would recognise her, and even be...
2023-01-19 09:05:37 +0000 UTC View Post
A couple of the designs from this scene stood out to me:
We cannot definitively state that these are colleagues of Eugene Fisk (and therefore Homer), they could merely be friends (or well-wishers, in t...
2023-01-18 09:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
This salty sailor takes the family's order at The Rusty Barnacle.
He's the latest in a long line of characters designed entirely for Bart, the mischievous scamp, to bounce off of. Our second this episode, after the Femail Carrier. His sarcastic attitude probably would not be tolerated too well i...
2023-01-16 09:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
The Rusty Barnacle - a venue accommodating family outings and raucous bachelor parties - was actually teased last episode:
But it is not until this episode that it actually makes an appearance. This was the equivalent of a Marvel post credits tease back in 1990. Viewers who watched Life On The Fa...
2023-01-13 08:59:01 +0000 UTC View Post
It seems like it should have been illegal that Lenny and Carl are so far apart in their appearances, but it is what it is. Carl appears at this stag party, with the "wrong" voice.
For the most part, I would say Carl's definition within the show is similar to Lenny's, he is often used as an every...
2023-01-12 09:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Can't get enough of that wonderful Moe! After the Moevember prints from last month, the votes are in, and "Vincent Van Moe" will be the print for this month!
If you'd like this piece as an A5 print, sign up at the £10 or higher level for this month and it'll be sent straight to you at the start of next month! As always, if you have any questions, please let me know. Thanks for your suppo...
2023-01-10 09:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
As discussed last week, Eugene's father is actually more of a significant character than Eugene himself, as this is Eugene's only appearance.
We learn through the early events of "Homer's Night Out" that Eugene quickly goes from being Homer's assistant to becoming his supervisor. At first I thought this was an inconsistency, as we had previously seen Homer's supervisor was 2023-01-09 09:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
The Kingpin himself! Arch nemesis of both Spider-man and Dared- wait. Wrong guy.
I feel like if this sappy heartfelt speech had been delivered within the show a couple of seasons later, it would have been more of a joke. Here, the joke is that the other stag-do attendees are bored by this genuin...
2023-01-05 09:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Is this kid a real kid within the Simpsons universe? Or is he a drawing within a drawing, existing only as an image on a comic book page? If so, he's far from the first fictional character we've encountered, but his wacky eyes and teeth stuck out to me, so here he is.
I did some research into wh...
2023-01-04 09:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Happy New Year folks! New year, new print designs for you to choose from!
In case you're new here, this is how it works: vote for your favourite design in the poll below and the winner will be made into an A5 print for the January Patron Print! Second place will be February's print, and *maybe* third place will be March's print, I haven't decided yet.
If you have any questions about...
2023-01-03 09:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Okay, okay, you got me. It's "Femail Carrier".
We start this new episode with another proposed nemesis for Bart to torment...only for her not to show up that much in the rest of the show:
That said, on the rare occasion she does reappear, her design is surprisingly consistent, which is wha...
2023-01-02 09:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
We made it! Now, the first thing you'll notice is this batch of characters is heavily skewed towards the Singing Sirloin waiters, which I am glad I condensed into one week. They make up 69.6% of the characters introduced in this episode. Apart from that, the MVP is OBVIOUSLY my boy Lenny (I will NOT be entertaining any arguments on this matter.)
The NCHC of this episode is a measly 8.7%, ...
2022-12-30 09:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
After a whirlwind of known characters (all you Charlie fans can stop harassing me) we end this episode with a single appearance nobody. This guy is very invested in his Homer's love life, as are all of his colleagues:
Okay, slight correction, he actually has two appearances. Here he is showing u...
2022-12-29 09:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
A wee tour of some of the figures Marge encounters on what she later calls "an ironic street":
Sadly the h...
2022-12-27 09:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Charlie is a C-list Homer acquaintance that many get confused with Sam. In his first two word appearance ("Domestic situation") he has a wildly different voice from usual, much gruffer.
Charlie fits the middle ...
2022-12-26 09:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Oh boy oh boy. This is an important entry so I'm opening it up to everyone as a festive treat - if you're new here, hi! I hope you enjoy my ramblings about a character that has unexpectedly become one of the most beloved figures in my life.
Lenford appears towards the end of "Life on the Fast Lane" without his beloved Carl. He is introduced as a colleague of Homers, simply as someone for ...
2022-12-22 09:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
I love when the show does this! This fantasy sequence is a visual departure from the rest of the episode, and it's a delight:
We've seen so many unique visual styles within the show that this one seems quaint by comparison, but the use of colour here is engaging and would have looked like nothin...
2022-12-20 09:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
A familiar character enters the episode with a lizard-like appearance:
She introduces herself to Marge as if they barely know each other, which is interesting, as Helen may be Lisa's godmother (this is revealed in "Treehouse of Horror XX" so may not be canon.)
In this initial scene she ide...
2022-12-19 09:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
I'm not gonna force another theme week out of this scene ("Bowling Alley Week"? Nah, I've been overdoing the weird theme weeks.) but I did decided arbitrarily to include these bowlers that Jacques appears to have made some kind of a bet against:
That guy in green does not look impressed...perhap...
2022-12-16 09:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
I'm torn. This guy is a scumbag, trying to steal Marge away, but he's our second Albert Brookes voiced character, which means he is kind of a delight. The probably-improvised naturalistic dialogue between him and Marge is etched into my brain, especially during the explanation of brunch.
"Life On The Fast Lane" is Jacque's only speaking role, but it seems strange to document his other app...
2022-12-15 09:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
The first appearance of the gentlemen who taught us all that you can't bowl without a lane:
At some point he switches jobs, although stays in the footwear-based field as he refuses to refund Homer for his "Assassin" sneakers (with a pretty consistent voice!):
2022-12-12 09:00:05 +0000 UTC
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I just can't help myself. I like drawing.
We've seen all these guys this week, and my completionist brain wouldn't let me finish up the Singing Sirloin week without covering them.
So there we go. 22 characters in one week. Tell your friends about the amazing value of this silly project.
This post is part of my "Every Simpsons Character Ever" series. For a list of my rules ...
2022-12-09 09:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Our final numbered entries this week are the quartet that actually interact with our main characters, the Simpun family. Is that right? Simpun? It's been a long week, I'm not going back to check.
They actually do sing "Happy Birthday To You", which means that they paid out a hefty fee for licens...
2022-12-08 09:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Our penultimate group of waiters serenade some mourners:
I tell ya, it's a wee treat revisiting these Simpsons episodes that I have seen in years. I sit down to make notes, pausing every few seconds to jot down all the weird and wonderful additions I get to research and reinterpret. But when I r...
2022-12-07 09:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Our second group of waiters at the Singing Sirloin are celebrating a pregnancy.
I'm really hoping that the lady here has not waited what looks like around seven or eight months to tell her partner about this pregnancy. But hey, at least they look happy.
In case you're curious, I peeked ahe...
2022-12-06 09:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
HOO BOY.
In what I can only assume was a blaze of drunken hubris I have determined that each and every waiter that appears as part of a quarter in the Singing Sirloin counts as a distinct and separate character worthy of inclusion in our silly little project. There are four different groups of singers, each with four members, so covering them "normally" would mean it'd take us about two m...
2022-12-05 09:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post