How did a man with no drawing talent manage to turn a franchise about kids hanging out with a fat naked dude into a global phenomenon?
>>150342699>Justify thing I don't like being popularGet raped
You don't need good art to be entertaining. As long as the writing's solid and holds peoples' interests, it can still get popular.
>>150342699Cuz it’s funny to kids
2000's comic books had more challenging writing than scholastic books and manga today.
>make something fun and entertaining for children>it succeeds>/co/: waaahhh!! it isn't deep and morally grey like the punisher!!?
>>150342699Kids love silly characters and potty humor. The simple drawings makes it easy for kids to replicate.
>>150342699“Bad” art is easier for kids to connect with since they can doodle it themselves on notebooks. Crude jokes are funny to kids. It’s really that simple. You’d have more of th see if the literary agents and publishers didn’t insist on printing a bunch of boring ass books with pretty paintings in them that kids don’t want to read.
>>150344412More of these*
>>150342699He's a funny writer. He's probably better at writing dialogue and gags than illustrating.
>>150342699He funny
By always inviting the kids to be an active participant in the story with interactive flip o ramas and tutorials on how to make your own
>>150342699>it's another 'Dav Pilkey is a shitty artist' thread It takes a certain level of artistic skill to come up with a crude style that's still super cute and charming and funny like Captain Underpants's, let alone keeping it appealing for two decades straight. I feel like that first [and last] movie DW made really emphasizes what makes Pilkey's style just to nice to look at. It's like a wonkier Charles Schulz in a way Crude art styles still require skill.
bacon brown whats bacon brown thats moses he helps us understand that colors or on the lighter side 1 nine thousand 1 eleven thousand
>>150342699I'm so happy for him, his success is well-deserved
>>150342699>no drawing talentLooks nicer than that Summer camp island crap you guys like.
>>150342699>>150342711>>150344412>>150345740>>150347528Look up the PaperboyDav CAN draw, the crudeness of his more popular books is very deliberate
>>150347568I mean that's obvious just from comparing Captain Underpants to Dogman.
>>150345740"Crude" isn't an appropriate word. He just has a simple artstyle.
>>150347664He didn't draw that series though
>>150347803who did?
>>150342699He got that shit on doe
Because little boys loved it
>>150342704fpbp
>>150349767girls too
>>150348415Martin Ontiveros and then Dan Santat
>>150342699As Tite Kubo once said: The Heart
>>150342699>How did a man with no drawing talentNetworking
>>150345740Not crude so much as a high level of intentional graphic design, the UPA inspired stuff everyone loves is the same kind of approach as Pilkey’s cartooning
>>150342699It had soul and genuinely funny writing
>>150342699SCHOLASTIC INC., the premiere publisher of children's literature for over FOUR FUCKING DECADES!!!! FUCK YOUR IGNORANCE, GO RAPE YOUR MOTHER!!!>>150342704Go rape your mother, degenerate
>>150345740>that first [and last] movie
