Thread 149011201

What do you think of Dav Pilkey as an artist? I used to feel his artstyle was a little too simplistic for my tastes, but its been growing on me.

>>149011201 (OP)
It’s art made for kids to emulate white literary agents and many publishers can’t seem to understand. It’s why his books sell and nothing they rep or print does. Because they’re too busy trying to impress award voters and adults with pretty painted art and he’s just trying to tell fart jokes with art kids can doodle and connect with.

>>149011201 (OP)
>It’s art made for kids to emulate, which literary agents and many publishers can’t seem to understand.

Odd typo

>>149011201 (OP)
I think he’s incredibly hardworking and I like that his fart jokes can still make me laugh as a grown ass man

>>149011201 (OP)
He understand how to draw in a way that appeals to kids. There's a genius to its simplicity.

>>149011201 (OP)
I can only speak for Captain Underpants but I think his art was pretty much perfect for that material and reading level. He also did a really good job of encouraging kids to make their own little flip-o-ramas and comics.

>everyone always jerks off Captain Underpants and Dog Man
>nobody ever mentions this gem
you niggers better have some goddamn respect for Kat motherfucking Kong
and honk if you love pussy!

Bastard goes on about reading banned books and then bans Ook and Gluk

>>149011201 (OP)
I love Dav Pilkey's work. It might be an acquired taste for some, but his deceptively simple art style still oozes appeal. I do feel his Captain Underpants characters translated to CG better than his Dog Man characters, though. Adding fancy lighting and texturing to characters modeled closely after what should be children's scribbles was NOT the way to go

>>149011772
to be fair, whenever ive asked noirmie friends about captain underpants the only thing they say is the flip pages.

>>149011201 (OP)
DUDE I LOVE YOU

BRO I LOVE YOU

MAN I LOVE YOU (I love youuuuu)

>>149011201 (OP)
As an artist he's perfectly fine, emulating the "deceptively simple" childlike drawings to a key, but his writing is what makes him noteworthy imo. Every man has his contradictions, and Pilkey is no exception, but I'm indebted to the joy he gave me in his best works. I'm disappointed he is rarely as cynical as he used to be, and went all in on the more wholesome aspects of lesson learning in kids books, but I understand why he did it. I'm 30, so I don't need his books anymore, but kids today certainly do. He's the Dr. Suess of our generation.

>>149015193
>I'm disappointed he is rarely as cynical as he used to be,
His dad was dying

>>149015285
not sure I'm picking up what you're saying exactly, but the CU books before his dad's illness had a bite to them, and became deliciously dark after he died. The Dog Man books started out kind of frivolous and morphed into more of an open hug with a life lesson every third chapter. I thought it was done really well for a while, but lost me after so many stories of Dav trying to imitate how kids speak and pulling his tenth tragic backstory.

If what you're saying is his dad is the reason why some of his books turned out so salty, yeah I obviously am thankful he's in a happier place. But I always thought his funniest stuff was when he was punching up at something instead of going for cuteness. It's a generational thing, I'm not competing with current readers.

>>149015836
>It's a generational thing, I'm not competing with current readers.
Yeah that's something we talked about in a previous thread
Kids books these days feel so much more sanitized and yeah you can argue it's for kids media as a whole but it feels egregious with kids books because that was the kind of material that didn't have to obey the likes of BSAP.
Were there challenges? Sure but people near universally agreed book banning was wrong.
Characters like Jamie Kelley from Dear Dumb Diary or Amelia McBride from Amelia Rules felt like actual kids with their own flaws, insecurities, etc but were also shown to not be purely squeaky clean either.
Same goes for George and Harold, they're little shits but you (especially kids) could relate to them if you had a similar experience at your school.
It's like people got the wrong idea from all the "Greg Heffley is a sociopath" jokes and tried to course correct away too hard from having an "unlikable protagonist" regardless of relatability.

>>149015836
>>149016048
Forgot to mention that if it's what the readership wants, by all means that's fine
It's their literature, not mine even if I do think it comes across as too saccharine for my liking

>>149011201 (OP)
The guy has been planting a healthy anti-authoritarian streak in kids for decades. I remember reading his books as a kid in the early 2000's, and he'd talk about how annoying his teachers were and how they'd say he was going to fail and that he decided not to listen to them. It felt like something you weren't supposed to read, and thus perfect for getting boy's attention. And his art style is basically telling kids how easy and fun it is to make comics themselves. I'm sure he's lost his bite over time, but I'm almost older now than he was back then and it's hard to keep up that feeling for me as a normal person, let alone him as a successful author

>>149012313
This shit. Never read the book but whatever Pilkey shunted it for, it was probably a great big nothingburger.

>>149016344
The Asians had squinty eyes
That's it
That's literally it (that and they also taught martial arts and said inauthentic proverbs)
I'm Chinese American and I wasn't offended whatsoever
I get there was a rise of hate crimes at the time and all but ffs people

I like his art and stories.

His comics can be surprisingly deep.

>>149017296
yeah me too

>>149011201 (OP)
he cute~

>>149011932
>this and Dogzilla kickstarted his career
based

>>149011201 (OP)
>Dav
>Not Dave
I might be retarded.

>>149020083
you just might be

>>149011201 (OP)
used to love captain underpants as a kid, grew up way before dog man came out, and was shocked by how sincere the dog man movie was. just an unfathomably hopeful movie. dav does good shit

>>149021505
>used to love captain underpants as a kid
You don't anymore... ?

What are the chances of Dog Man getting an animated series like Captain Underpants did?

>>149014796
catchy af

>>149016390
Although there's a valid point to make regarding the stereotyping and lack of variation historically associated with Western depictions of non-Caucasian ethnic features, when the default style of an artist is already so naïve and minimalist that the eyes of most characters are drawn as either vertical lines or dots, there's not really a lot of options left cartooning-wise. How else can someone convey that a character has epicanthic folds without deviating from a very simplistic artstyle?

>>149011201 (OP)
he a'ight

>>149011201 (OP)
He beat Demon Slayer sales, therefore he is the king of /co/.

>>149024517
O CAPTAIN MY CAPTAIN

https://bleedingcool.com/comics/dav-pilkey-dog-man-ten-times-top-manga-us-bookstores/

>>149011316
Fpbp

I get a kick out of all the carefully painted, genuinely beautiful, pretentious pieces of shit that sell nothing and only garner praise from literary circles while diary of a wimpy kid and dog man dance on their graves. Serves the autofellating fucks right.

>>149011316
So basically he was One before One was a thing.

>>149016390
>I get there was a rise of hate crimes at the time and all
Statistically untrue, they say this because they conflate “hate speech” with “hate crimes”.

I’m guessing this >>149011325 was for >>149011316

>>149025351
maybe

>>149025351
perhaps

>>149025334
They said this, past tense
They stopped bringing it up once it was apparent it was mostly black-on-Asian crime. We can't bring attention to THAT, now can we?

It's easy to draw, the books themselves are entertaining to read, and I love kitties. wish I knew of it sooner ffs. If I didn't work 40+ hours a week and have other obligations I could have made some shitpost comic book by now but just drawing them and my made up OCs once a day will suffice. Love ya Dav

>>149027896
wholesome

>>149023214
Hopefully we will get an answer once Big Jim Believes releases in November. The Adventures of the Supa Buddies or a CKCC spinoff has to merit some kind of interest.
>>149029427
thanks. I'll post one more. one of these days I'll truly have enough panels drawn to create something with it. For right now my mind is wired to practice characters with zero references.

>>149011201 (OP)
>Captain Underpants
Now there's a name i haven't heard in a long ass time.

>>149011201 (OP)
He's rockin' a leather jacket so that's how I know he's cool