Very good read. Maybe people send you ideas to get validation from you. They admire your work so much, that your approval gives them bragging rights! I know when you posted my pic wearing my Pizza Rat t-shirt I was impossible to live with for a few months! 😂😂😂😉
Yes,I agree. It is part of the business that readers suggest ideas.And I have to give reasons like yours not to accept them. Hopefully in a polite way they will accept
"Columnists can’t have someone else write their columns." Yet legislators can have ALEC write their legislation for them, because they are lazy. See Indiana.
The only issue I have with this post is the claim "you're not weird enough." I am plenty weird, thank you. However, I am not your weird. You create from your weirdness, I create from mine, to each their own weirdness, and somehow, weirdly, it all works out.
This was fun to read, you covered every base to explain why you don't want us sending you ideas and I respect them all and hope others do as well. Sometimes my partner, your other biggest fan, says, "I should send this idea to Clay," and I say, "NOOOOOOOO!" But of course you're bound to piss off a few people or at least get a healthy scolding. Pfft.
I’ve been scanning your cartoons and chucking/nodding for a few weeks, but it was only your mention of Pizza Rat v RFKjr that made me go back and look for him in your previous cartoons, which made me notice all the little details I had missed. (Old Roodles heh heh). Lil’ Ratty gave me a new appreciation for your work.
It’s okay, I have in my head (but not shared) his daring escape so I shall look for him again in future cartoons.
From my perspective I support your substack to see your art and read your thoughts and brain droppings (tip of the hat to George Carlin). If yours or any of the substacks I support with my hard earned money were to start using ideas submitted to them from readers I would drop my support for them.
Well, I guess I won’t be sending you this really great idea I have for a cartoon.
Thank you.
You’re welcome. I love your art.
😂🤣😂🤣😂
Very good read. Maybe people send you ideas to get validation from you. They admire your work so much, that your approval gives them bragging rights! I know when you posted my pic wearing my Pizza Rat t-shirt I was impossible to live with for a few months! 😂😂😂😉
Okay, a Pizza Rat T-shirt is going on my list. 😁🍕 Thanks!
https://www.redbubble.com/i/t-shirt/Pizza-Rat-by-Claytoonz/151267170.WFLAH.XYZ
I want a Pizza Rat shirt.
https://www.redbubble.com/i/t-shirt/Pizza-Rat-by-Claytoonz/151267170.WFLAH.XYZ
Thanks. They even make it in fat guy sizes. Most of the time it is hard too find anything over 2XL. I like 3XL.
Where did you get the shirt?
https://www.redbubble.com/i/t-shirt/Pizza-Rat-by-Claytoonz/151267170.WFLAH.XYZ
Yes,I agree. It is part of the business that readers suggest ideas.And I have to give reasons like yours not to accept them. Hopefully in a polite way they will accept
I try to be polite too.
Understood. Don't think I ever did that, because my ideas suck.
That's never stopped anyone else. hahaha.
Thank you for your ethics. Refreshing. I am glad to be one of your sponsors - or whatever we are called..
Thank you so much.
"Columnists can’t have someone else write their columns." Yet legislators can have ALEC write their legislation for them, because they are lazy. See Indiana.
None of those people write their bills.
Cutting and pasting this to send to people telling me what to draw.
The only issue I have with this post is the claim "you're not weird enough." I am plenty weird, thank you. However, I am not your weird. You create from your weirdness, I create from mine, to each their own weirdness, and somehow, weirdly, it all works out.
Strange responses today! Having artist friends I’d never suggest ideas they’ve trained me well
This was fun to read, you covered every base to explain why you don't want us sending you ideas and I respect them all and hope others do as well. Sometimes my partner, your other biggest fan, says, "I should send this idea to Clay," and I say, "NOOOOOOOO!" But of course you're bound to piss off a few people or at least get a healthy scolding. Pfft.
tell him I said thank you...and thank you too, Robink.
Great! You told us! Good job! What we desperately need is honesty!!!
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Shit. I forgot to add, "You are not a writer." HAHAHA. Thanks, Karyl.
I won’t send you any ideas but I would prefer Pizza Rat does not become an RFK Hawk smoothie.
That's the second comment over the past two minutes with concerns for Pizza Rat. I love it.
I’ve been scanning your cartoons and chucking/nodding for a few weeks, but it was only your mention of Pizza Rat v RFKjr that made me go back and look for him in your previous cartoons, which made me notice all the little details I had missed. (Old Roodles heh heh). Lil’ Ratty gave me a new appreciation for your work.
It’s okay, I have in my head (but not shared) his daring escape so I shall look for him again in future cartoons.
Wondering what Pizza Rat, Fish Indabol and Yoko think.
Okay. I'm new to the scene. Who is Yoko?
Yoko Ono is John Lennon's widow.
Thanks for the info. I thought it was another easter egg hidden in the artwork that my tiny phone screen and old eyes missed. 😳😁
That covers it...lol
From my perspective I support your substack to see your art and read your thoughts and brain droppings (tip of the hat to George Carlin). If yours or any of the substacks I support with my hard earned money were to start using ideas submitted to them from readers I would drop my support for them.