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and the sneaks ain't gonna like it! Eliza | 25 | she/her Professional cartoon monger, cartoon anthropologist, and fugitive from the funny papers 🦆🧽

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Another day! Another intro!

I'm Eliza! I love cartoons so much that I brute forced my way into drawing them for a living. When I'm not doing that, I'm talking about them, watching them, studying them, researching them, archiving them, and sharing them--also for a living, in a metaphorical, metaphysical, wooooah-that-was-deep-dude way.

I like a lot of old things, weird things, eccentric things, kitschy things, and zany things. All of the above overlap frequently. I'm just here to chat about what inspires and stirs me and, ideally, hope to stir something in you, too!

Thank you so much for stopping by! I love talking to people, old and new and making new friends, so don't ever be afraid to reach out!

LINKS

* Art/Professional Blog - @duck-twacy * Cartoon Review Blog * Bluesky * Instagram * Twitter * Letterboxd

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spongebob really is the epitome of the phrase “every frame is a painting”, it’s the animated show(s and movies) i collect the most screenshots from, and not just because of the memes

Yes indeed!! I was (and still am!) the same way, there was a period where most of my social media posting was just me hoarding screenshots and gifs and videos of all things Sponge and gushing over how good the drawings were. I got to work with one of the artists whose art I reeeeally really really revered at that time which was still one of my greatest honors, and I introduced myself to him by gushing about how I always saved screenshots of his episodes and spent so much time studying them. Definitely came off strong and overzealous and fannish on my end lol, but aaagh the level of talent is really, really, really suffocating, and I mean that in a good way. Being a part in the operation now, I'm more dazzled and more fannish than ever towards the artistic integrity of the franchise and of all eras... rewatching the movie almost had me feeling a little frustrated at just how GOOD everything is. Understatement of the year! But it's like aw jeez how the heck do I rise to that level??? Being surrounded by so much talent and for so long can be as overwhelming as it is utterly wonderful, but it's the overwhelm that makes it so wonderful, too. I've been hoarding more screenshots than ever as I do my full series rewatch and dive into the comics and production of it all--I felt like my sheer adoration for the show and the hands behind it could never be stronger, and every single day I'm proving myself wrong.

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Omg I'm only somehow JUST NOTICING the peg holes at the bottom of the screen! Old timey manly-flair meets comparatively old timey animation methods! Ah man that's such a genius little detail!

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Oh whoops, I guess I used the submission option instead of the ask box lmao. Here are the two quotes I've spotted so far.

The story that the first panel comes from (Mickey's Craziest Adventures) is delightful. It's presented as a "lost" comic serial from the 60's that's only been partially recovered, and it uses the gaps in the story (where certain pages have ostensibly been "lost") for some phenomenal gags.

Amazing!! Thanks for sharing these with me! I honestly wasn't sure what I was expecting the quotes to be, but I wasn't anticipating them to be so overt haha!! That's awesome!! And oh man, this is my first time hearing about Mickey's Craziest Adventures, I'll definitely have to look into it!! I'm suuuuuuper duper charmed by the art from just that one little panel alone!! Thanks so much for shooting it my way!

Tangential, but a good excuse for me to post this unfinished Don Rosa comic:

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If I made a thread for every "omg this drawing is so good" that appears in this movie it'd be 100000 replies long, but man oh man is this a great drawing

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Listening to SpongeBob and Patrick Confront the Psychic Wall of Energy by the Flaming Lips now has me in the mood to rewatch Duck Dodgers... again... because the Flaming Lips composed the theme song. Feel like that isn't as common knowledge as Tom Jones being the singer (which is fair considering how much he steals the show), so there's your fun fact of the day! Coupled with a scratch vocal track

+ bonus full version with Tom Jones

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@griscuitsandbavy (Answering this way bc it wouldn't let me post it as a submission) oh that's so cool!!! Do you happen to have any examples of this if you can scrounge them up? I'm so curious to see what you're referring to and which quotes they're using.. and for which characters! The Donald/Daffy continuum continues? ..uum?

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Hey! I'm so glad you're back! I don't really have anything to ask, but I'm just happy you're doing alright now

Doublin' up on asks so I can spew double the love--but truly, thank you guys so, so SO so much!! 💛 I'm extremely grateful for the love and support and desire to still follow me around, sincerely aiming for this to be the last time it happens haha!

I don't mean to sound all woe is me give me attention and say nice things about me (contrary to my ask button title!!! "Make mine a double-pasteurized milkshake, bartender. Eh... with a swami yogurt chaser," was too long to fit), genuinely just stating this casually because it's BEEN casual for me and I'm realizing that's No Gud, but I tend to have trouble thinking that people actually get anything out of what I do or say and I tend to view myself as pretty dispensable haha. Difficult sometimes to think that people value what I say and value my presence!

So I am sincerely very appreciative of anyone expressing concern and well wishes, and apologize for potentially exacerbating them; I genuinely just assumed that people wouldn't really miss me or notice haha. I'm so happy to be proven wrong though and very appreciative of anyone caring enough to still stick around 💛 I'm getting better at realizing and internalizing this, thankfully! But yeah, just wanted to say thank you so much! I can't act like it hasn't been frustrating (at best) but my frustration is now more exhaustion than anything, including towards all my ways to try and "make it work".

Going forward I'm just shuttin' anything down that needs to be shut down without a word and going by my own rules and pace and whatever-da-heck-I-wanna-do. Nobody's ever obligated to follow me or read what I have to say or carry it with them. Again, if I'm too big for you to digest, you don't gotta digest it in the first place! Or you can choke on it! But ideally not because that's scary and I also don't like telling people that they can go choke! But the people I am hypothetically saying that to are not the ones sending me sweet asks.

So thank you thank you thank you! I'm really good at supporting and complimenting others but am soooo bad at being on the receiving end, so I feel like my words betray my gratitude--know this means so much to me, and much more than any "thank you" I can type!

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Painting with Patrick, from Make Yourself Pat Home! This doubles as a 1:1 inside look at my own art process; they say art benefits from your real life experiences, so...!

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Been doing another chronological LT rewatch, and it's hard to stress what a breath of fresh air a cartoon like Porky's Poultry Plant is--Frank Tashlin comes in HOT with his first solo directed cartoon. Incredible pacing with quick, exhilarating cuts that really inflates a genuine sense of drama, but also has some great humor: buzzards kidnapping a hapless baby chick is transformed from a life-and-death chase to a rousing football game. Excellent narration by Tedd Pierce, whose voice I wish was utilized MUCH more frequently in these shorts

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Reuploading this from 2022 since I'm currently watching the end of this film on TV :) it was a crew White Elephant gift that, iirc, now hangs in the writer's room--which is an unspeakable honor!!

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Deeply in love with this Sponge comic drawn by Derek Drymon. That kid's design is hysterical

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DoodleBob (in the sense that it’s a doodly, noodly ‘Bob)

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Fond memory just resurfaced: this batch of LTC shorts came out just a few days before I was starting work on SpongeBob and I was SO tickled with this screenshot I was like omg it's great my two allegiances duck and sponge heeheheehe! And I was also so excited and jittery to get started working. I wanted to share this so badly and be like Heyyyy wink wink nudge nudge ;) but I hadn't even started WORK yet and also didn't know if I would be a contract player, so to speak. So I had to carry this secret for about two months until I got the greenlight to blab and it was confirmed I'd be a full-time member of da Sponge family. But I thought this single screenshot of Daffy holding a sponge was just the greatest thing I'd ever seen and so beautiful and so ✨Me✨ and I remember wanting to blab about it so bad and just vibrating with pent up excitement.

Thought of it again deciding on a theme for this blog as I was/am torn between the two allegiances to represent me best. Also this was over 5 and a half years ago now how is that POSSIBLE

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i had asked this before the old main blog went down [still terribly sorry to hear people were harassing you! hope you're doing better now!], but if you have seen it yet, what did you think of the Porky's Duck Hunt reference in the recently premiered SpongeBob season 17 episode It's About Mime? again, i apologise if this is spoiling you if you haven't seen the episode yet, but with you being such a fan of the duck i had just wanted to know your thoughts! best wishes!!

Thank you kindly, that's very sweet! The support of people like yourself is what's worthwhile 💛

It IS a spoiler for me as I have not seen it yet--all of the Sponge episodes I haven't seen are the ones drawn by my current friends and coworkers 😭😭😭 but that's why I'm doing a full series watchthrough! And also I've been too busy working on our own episodes haha so I guess it's a fair tradeoff. But that's all to say, I'm happy to be spoiled by such wondrous news!! I'd call it moreso a general Daffy reference rather than Porky's Duck Hunt specifically, but, also 1) what a wondrous differentiation to have to even make and 2) I'm a pedantic nut (loon?). Yay!!! Thank you to my sponge brethren responsible for this, whoever you are!

That's like in the Timeline Twist-Up episodes (which I also need to see!) they straight up had footage from Hamateur Night included!! I was not responsible for any of these! I'm so proud... sniffle

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Danke schön for following me over here! Hoping this is the last time you’ll have to do so :)

thewustywab met the same fate of ducktracy, in that I got inundated with another slew of trolls/harassment/etc and my tolerance for such has been SO shorted over this year by that I decided to take us all out with it. Just kidding. Kind of. I’m not kidding because the blog is gone but my wording is facetiously dramatic for comedic effect

Drip Along Daffy theming is sorely because I just think it’s a catchy url to have and it’s a cartoon I love, and considering I always call it Chuck Jones’ equivalent to The Great Piggy Bank Robbery, it makes sense as a graduate from the duckt(w)racy theming. The aforementioned experiences have made me a bit frosty towards LT cartoons, at least publicly.. but with it happening for yet Another time I’m tired of giving randos the power to ruin something for me. I also just really miss engaging in the things I was passionate about. I don’t want my favorite character of all time to be ruined by people I don’t even know. Might switch back to thewustywab at some point. Might not! Might do something else entirely! Who knows! It’s just a blog! (Not that I need to explain my “theme” or whatever because I yam a person, not a blog nor a theme, and I can change all of the above when and how I want, etc. But yknow!)

I don’t really have a mission statement or anything or grand plan for this blog, it is what it is. And what it is just a blog for me to chat about things and with people :) nothing more or less. I’m still on shaky ground with this website right now because I can’t act like it’s all water under the bridge, but I’ve been neglecting myself and my passions and my authenticity because of a few handfuls of randos on here and I’m just tiiiiiired of shrinking away and making myself digestible, etc. If I’m too much for you to digest then you don’t have to eat me to begin with or you can choke on me 🤷 (but it’s wiser not to eat because I legitimately almost died choking on a brussels sprout once and had to be heimlich’d and that wasn’t very fun, so if you have the option to choose, just don’t eat! Or eat in slow bites! Like I do excessively with every brussels sprout I’ve ever eaten since then)

Thanks to the people who care about and support me, genuinely :) I’m a very big all or nothing person and the solution to this “issue” I’ve been happening over the year does not fit in that hard binary, and so it’s been a lot of trial and error trying to find a nuanced solution.. and trial and error that’s been public too, eep! So thanks for sticking around and supporting and caring despite it all. Taking it one day at a time and one step at a time, and both of those can be a bit shaky at times but it is what it is! I hope to show up more for those who care about me and also just want to get back into letting myself Like things and Talk about things and not worry about why an anon might feel I need to die over that.

I’ll probably delete this in a few days because it’s more garbled and vulnerable than I’d like to be debuting on this blog, but just wanted to offer an explanation and maybe articulate myself through what’s been happening. I’ve been learning to disentangle myself and my worth from my online identity and it’s been surprisingly difficult and complex, particularly because I am just so… inescapable HAHA. But I’m learning to realize that has the potential to be a good thing rather than a bad thing I need to be ashamed of :). Just the same it’s not gonna kill me to focus more on my work and friends and family and allowing myself to rest and rejuvenate, rather than fretting over not posting about x or y or posting about z too much, etc.

Here is a bunny and some birds I saw on my walk this morning as a final thank yew