What do you call this generic ass webcomic artstyle? - /co/ (#149705223) [Archived: 81 hours ago]

Anonymous
8/4/2025, 10:49:45 PM No.149705223
Webcomicart
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The one that seems to take influence from Bloom County and Tiny Toons but make those styles look bland as fuck.
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Anonymous
8/4/2025, 10:52:34 PM No.149705262
Child-molestation-victim artstyle
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Anonymous
8/4/2025, 10:54:39 PM No.149705294
>>149705262
More like being-exposed-to-Tiny-Toons-as-child artstyle. I'm guessing all these people are roughly the same age
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Anonymous
8/4/2025, 10:57:14 PM No.149705332
tiny_toon_adventures_1990_hero
tiny_toon_adventures_1990_hero
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>>149705294
>big heads
>big eyes
>small pupils
>oversaturated color palette
>having their mouth open while smiling
>focus on being "wacky"
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Anonymous
8/4/2025, 10:58:55 PM No.149705347
>>149705223 (OP)
Toon Autism
Anonymous
8/4/2025, 11:00:10 PM No.149705366
>>149705294
Why does Tiny Toons always spawn the biggest fucking autists online? The most infamous board sperg here is a Tiny Toons worshipper ffs.
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Anonymous
8/4/2025, 11:03:38 PM No.149705412
>>149705223 (OP)
The "I learned to draw using one of those how to draw manga books" artstyle
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Anonymous
8/4/2025, 11:05:20 PM No.149705439
>>149705223 (OP)
Those are 4 different artstyles
Anonymous
8/4/2025, 11:06:20 PM No.149705453
>>149705366
Tiny toons is the Sonic of /co/
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Anonymous
8/4/2025, 11:08:26 PM No.149705488
>>149705366
90s cartoons tend to spawn the biggest spergs on earth for some reason
Maybe it's the constant movement, whacky animation, anthro animals and weird scenes
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Anonymous
8/4/2025, 11:10:04 PM No.149705513
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>>149705223 (OP)
>putting Dobson on the same level as Eric W. Schwartz
Kill yourself
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Anonymous
8/4/2025, 11:12:10 PM No.149705545
>>149705223 (OP)
Except Tiny Toons had a excited art style, mainly due to Toshihiko Masuda and Kazuhide Tomonaga's art direction.
>>149705332
>>149705488
And those things are good things.
>>149705453
No, Tiny Toons is the Laputa of /co/.
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Anonymous
8/4/2025, 11:15:58 PM No.149705596
Tumblrart
Tumblrart
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>>149705412
I usually associate those kinds of books more with the Tumblr style, many Tumblrites are weebs who got their start in art buying one of those autistic ass books and later had their art evolve into this.

Iโ€™m not even showing other examples cause you can already name like a hundred other artists with this samey ass style
Anonymous
8/4/2025, 11:19:46 PM No.149705664
>>149705223 (OP)
I find it funny how this artstyle is so associated with Dobson these days that nobody can give a shit about anything that looks like this

Everytime someone sees a mediocre webcomic now they go "did Dobson draw this LOL"
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Anonymous
8/4/2025, 11:27:59 PM No.149705790
>>149705545
Many of those autists are people who want all their autistic fixations combined into one thing and then add on top of that a madcap, Mask/Jim Carrey-esque, Looney Tunes humor where the protag's engage in 90's surreal humor/references, and classic cartoon humor constantly as well as appear superior over their antagonists at every turn, then you have the fetish power fantasy that many autists want. Plus it's easier for autists to draw. It's also funny that Dobson hates anime so much when TMS and other Japanese studios animated so much of the shit his ilk likes. At points western cartoons animated by those studios would look anime-like anyway and guys like Timm took inspiration and appreciated eastern stuff.
Autists also like easy to read expressions. As for the name, I'd just say 90's how to draw book style. Some are more like Tiny toons while others kind of veer into Hembeck or Cathy type style for the bodies while the eyes are like the most generic western style imaginable.
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Anonymous
8/4/2025, 11:31:32 PM No.149705841
>>149705513
Sabrina is a mega cutie.
Replies: >>149712097 >>149715117
Anonymous
8/4/2025, 11:45:12 PM No.149706016
>>149705664
First he disgraces a whole family now he disgraces a whole artstyle, what an autist
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Anonymous
8/4/2025, 11:48:07 PM No.149706058
1721749176552096
1721749176552096
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>>149705513
Sabrina, Carmelita Fox, and Krystal turned me into a fucking furfag
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Anonymous
8/4/2025, 11:48:55 PM No.149706072
>>149705223 (OP)
People who learned to draw rather than people who were talented and CAN draw.

They should just stop
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Anonymous
8/4/2025, 11:50:50 PM No.149706098
>>149705453
You havent seen satam fans
Anonymous
8/4/2025, 11:59:33 PM No.149706227
>>149705223 (OP)
It seems like anime influence is pretty prevelant as well, this artstyle is like a time capsule of the 2000โ€™s cause it embodies the time when anime was something watched only by geeks and nerds.
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Anonymous
8/5/2025, 12:16:06 AM No.149706431
japanese_animation B
japanese_animation B
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>>149706227
Except the anime thats being peddled by Netflix and Crunchyroll is only being watched by geeks and nerds.

This is what normies watch when it comes to anime.
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Anonymous
8/5/2025, 12:26:56 AM No.149706575
>>149705513
Sabrina doesn't deserve to be there to be honest
Not even a furry.
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Anonymous
8/5/2025, 12:28:40 AM No.149706597
>>149706072
That's not how things work, anon
Anonymous
8/5/2025, 12:30:06 AM No.149706616
>>149705223 (OP)
"Really into late 80s anime and western cartoons"-core
I assume they're all 45-50 years old now (late Gen X, early Millenial), and watched a similar mixture of imported anime and Warner Brothers.
Anonymous
8/5/2025, 12:31:56 AM No.149706643
>>149706575
Eric Schwartz artstyle does give off vibes of this artstyle if Iโ€™m being honest, takes clear influence from Tom Ruegger stuff, comics, and anime, something that clearly also inspired people like Dobson
Anonymous
8/5/2025, 2:21:07 AM No.149708166
>>149705223 (OP)
Some weird Anime/Warner Bros Animation hybrid. It was all over independent cartoons in the early internet years.
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Anonymous
8/5/2025, 2:42:43 AM No.149708469
>>149705223 (OP)
The bad "Funny face Rumiko Takahashi" mishmash.
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Anonymous
8/5/2025, 2:48:11 AM No.149708529
>>149705223 (OP)
>learned basic bitch cartooning from "how to draw cartoons" books at the library in their childhood
>became a weeb who almost exclusively consumed Rumiko Takahashi series in their teens
>tried to do art school in their 20s so they could work for Disney, but never got there
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Anonymous
8/5/2025, 2:48:44 AM No.149708535
>>149706016
Is 2025, and inflationfags can't crank it in peace without accusations of being Dobson kek

>>149705790
Dobson's hate for anime is funny because it either comes from that retarded "Treasure Planet tried to be anime and it flopped, so anime killed Disney's traditional animation!" take or the time he got kicked out of his own anime club for having bitch-ass tastes and replaying the same OVAs over and over again.
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Anonymous
8/5/2025, 2:49:33 AM No.149708546
>>149705223 (OP)
FRUIT
SNACKS
Anonymous
8/5/2025, 2:52:25 AM No.149708584
deviantart-2006
deviantart-2006
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>>149705223 (OP)
2006 Deviantart.
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Anonymous
8/5/2025, 2:54:01 AM No.149708613
>>149705545
>And those things are good things.
Not when it's in service of being a soapbox for dogshit takes
Anonymous
8/5/2025, 2:58:46 AM No.149708699
Atlantis gang
Atlantis gang
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>>149708535
Is it just me or do Treasure Planet and Atlantis give off mild vibes of this webcomic artstyle? Like idk why but for some reason for me it just feels like a professional and good-looking version of it.
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Anonymous
8/5/2025, 2:59:23 AM No.149708707
>>149705223 (OP)
complacency
Anonymous
8/5/2025, 3:27:33 AM No.149709114
>>149708166
And it's cringe as fuck
Anonymous
8/5/2025, 3:33:52 AM No.149709200
maxresdefault (16)
maxresdefault (16)
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>>149705223 (OP)
Pre 2000s Disney
Anonymous
8/5/2025, 4:09:14 AM No.149709632
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>>149708699
I think it's more because artstis who used to work at Disney at the time(like Dave Alvarez) were also posting online pretty early and part of that whole style zeitgeist.
Anonymous
8/5/2025, 4:10:26 AM No.149709644
>>149708699
That's probably on account of how ridiculously fluid the animation is in those films. Makes them feel much more like cartoons.
Anonymous
8/5/2025, 4:11:03 AM No.149709648
>>149705223 (OP)
The artist barely disguised fetish?
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Anonymous
8/5/2025, 4:14:22 AM No.149709696
0170_170_20100119_Tkrn
0170_170_20100119_Tkrn
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>>149706058
Replies: >>149711484
Anonymous
8/5/2025, 4:24:07 AM No.149709819
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1749508666924905
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>>149709648
>Read this
>Been on the internet for so long that I immediately assumed the fourth pic is tf/possession/twinning/enemy conversion/etc
Damn it all...
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Anonymous
8/5/2025, 4:30:57 AM No.149709899
Autism art
Anonymous
8/5/2025, 4:34:23 AM No.149709931
>>149705223 (OP)
The "I grew up on 90s cartoons" style
Anonymous
8/5/2025, 4:35:01 AM No.149709940
>>149708584
2006 was beautiful
Anonymous
8/5/2025, 4:42:58 AM No.149710046
1753152171583
1753152171583
md5: 591dbb327bf5ccbc65abddcefda25d76๐Ÿ”
>>149709819
I don't know exactly what is it, but I know is from one webcomic where a witch turns people into different stuff often in fetishistic ways. We had a storytime relatively recently.
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Anonymous
8/5/2025, 5:17:53 AM No.149710448
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>>149705223 (OP)
Maybe this is a good place to ask, where can I read the Dobson comic?
Anonymous
8/5/2025, 5:22:33 AM No.149710503
>>149710046
The Wotch. What makes a fetishistic art style stand out like that in general?
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Anonymous
8/5/2025, 5:25:45 AM No.149710541
>>149710503
It's the mix of cartoon and nu-anime styles done pretty amateurly
You can tell that the author will be a massive sperg
Anonymous
8/5/2025, 5:42:20 AM No.149710731
>>149708584
> modern DeviantART homepage has a giant animated button shilling its store service
> plus two separate buttons for their AI art generator
Human society peaked when I was ten years old.
Replies: >>149713772
Anonymous
8/5/2025, 5:43:11 AM No.149710742
>>149705262
lmao
Anonymous
8/5/2025, 5:55:29 AM No.149710873
>>149710503
The art is amateurish and Newspaper like but has a more cinematic feel in how the panels are constructed. It could be a simple panel with both character next to each other or a simple shot reverse shot, but instead has a little more though put into it.
Anonymous
8/5/2025, 5:56:30 AM No.149710879
>>149708584
Remember when you could look old stuff old stuff in the search tab?
Billy
8/5/2025, 6:19:08 AM No.149711103
>>149705223 (OP)
Eric Schwartz is good, you dunce
Anonymous
8/5/2025, 7:04:19 AM No.149711484
>>149709696
I wish Groening had gone with the rabbit ears thing early on. It's so fucking weird and it would be so hard to walk back that it would have permanently changed the direction of the Simpsons as a show. It wouldn't have ended up where it is now.
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Anonymous
8/5/2025, 8:18:32 AM No.149712097
>>149705841
Trvth
Anonymous
8/5/2025, 8:33:04 AM No.149712198
>>149705223 (OP)
Aw hell nah get Schwatrz outta that picture nigga
Replies: >>149712590
Anonymous
8/5/2025, 8:40:15 AM No.149712241
>>149705513
>Dad comes home one day in the early 1990s.
>Tells me he has a cartoon for my Amiga.
>Its the short where Sabrina falls asleep watching TV, and her remote changes her appearance.
>Think it's the coolest thing since Shadow of the Beast III.
The Amiga is long gone, but that disk. I still have it.
Anonymous
8/5/2025, 9:51:05 AM No.149712590
>>149711484
>>149712198
Do you think he put that in there for (You)'s or just because Eric Schwartz is what the people were trying to capture the feeling of?
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Anonymous
8/5/2025, 12:29:18 PM No.149713197
>>149705223 (OP)
We call it "shit"
Anonymous
8/5/2025, 1:11:09 PM No.149713361
>>149705223 (OP)
Sabrina online is clearly based on that hot animal girl from Animaniacs.
Replies: >>149717220
Anonymous
8/5/2025, 2:32:40 PM No.149713772
>>149710731
Who even uses Deviantart anymore? Thereโ€™s so much other sites for people to post their art on these days. Deviantart has been nothing more than a safe haven for fetish art and Poohs Adventures-like crossover pics for like 15 years at this point.
Anonymous
8/5/2025, 2:34:21 PM No.149713786
>>149705223 (OP)
Harry Partridge but shit
Anonymous
8/5/2025, 4:56:10 PM No.149714803
What is Eric up to these days?
Replies: >>149715000
Anonymous
8/5/2025, 5:13:19 PM No.149714915
>>149705223 (OP)
Bloom County and Tiny Toons were made by teams of talented artists, with a mass media distribution support staff.
Every kid will ape something in the hope of also getting attention.
1/100 may actually find moderate success because they made an effort.
The rest will lament being unsuccessful, and try and place blame, because they do not seek to improve themselves.
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Anonymous
8/5/2025, 5:24:46 PM No.149715000
>>149714803
Just posting about furries, computers, and transformers on Xitter
Replies: >>149715081
Anonymous
8/5/2025, 5:37:38 PM No.149715081
>>149715000
Hell yeah. I ain't a furry but the exception is Sabrina.
Anonymous
8/5/2025, 5:41:54 PM No.149715117
>>149712590
Probably, it's working isn't it?
Gives us a good excuse to talk anthro girls at least.

Fuck, I wish Eric's art archive was still around, he inspired a lot of my smut interests.

>>149705841
I like future Sabrina a lot.
Her mom is cute too.
Anonymous
8/5/2025, 5:42:06 PM No.149715121
>>149708584
the 2000s was a magical decade for sure. I want to go back
Anonymous
8/5/2025, 5:44:33 PM No.149715148
dobsona
dobsona
md5: 0531317a2d98d894675fe7f2bb2092a0๐Ÿ”
>>149705223 (OP)
wat do you guys think of my dobsona
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Anonymous
8/5/2025, 5:55:51 PM No.149715272
>>149714915
Bloom County and Berkley Breathed are so goofy to me. I encountered him first with Opus on the Chicago Tribune around 2003, and by that time Berkeley had fully descended into being a depressed boomer democrat and the comic was just a penguin crying while putting his hand around a retarded cat, looking up at the moon saying โ€˜what happened to our dream?โ€™
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Anonymous
8/5/2025, 5:56:49 PM No.149715288
>>149715148
Looks great, he needs to be saying something stupid and embarrassing you remember saying in the past, in such a way both you the artist and the character think theyโ€™re still right
Anonymous
8/5/2025, 7:06:35 PM No.149716151
>>149715148
Hmmm .. inflate by 44.3% and you'll be perfect.
Anonymous
8/5/2025, 7:06:57 PM No.149716156
>>149705223 (OP)
they watched anime like Dragon Ball (the OG not Z) and Ranma 1/2 / Inuyasha
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Anonymous
8/5/2025, 7:08:09 PM No.149716179
>>149705223 (OP)
The no grading special
Anonymous
8/5/2025, 7:20:40 PM No.149716374
>>149705790
>It's also funny that Dobson hates anime
He doesn't actually hate anime on genuine level, only a superficial level of insecurity. Same way he hates blonde guys because a bully in school supposedly tormented him (more likely Dobson was insufferable and got teased for it).
Anonymous
8/5/2025, 7:21:20 PM No.149716385
>>149716156
True but also the DiC influence is there, which I feel contributes to the low and childish standard they all seem to be trying to meet. There are plenty of cartoons throughout the ages that will emasculate and infantilize even very young viewers, but I think DiC cartoons plus the constant PSAs in particular breed some real pussy self-righteous misanthropes. They start off with โ€˜Iโ€™m a good kid who understands his lessonsโ€™, and theyโ€™re stuck watching Care Bears and Captain Planet, and they just slowly imprint on themselves that theyโ€™re the โ€˜good guy anti-bullyโ€™ so they stand up and spit childish platitudes as if everyone who isnโ€™t a Care Bear themselves is fuckinโ€ฆ Ivan Ooze or some shit. They embarrass themselves
Anonymous
8/5/2025, 7:21:56 PM No.149716393
>>149706431
You can include a lot more in that from first season of TMNT, GI Joe, Transformers ect...
Anonymous
8/5/2025, 7:26:12 PM No.149716453
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>>149708166
>>149708469
>>149708529
Probably the best way to describe it...fuck do I miss these webcomics. They were so cringey and so much fun to shit on. We need Dobby to come back to save the internet so badly.
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Anonymous
8/5/2025, 7:29:28 PM No.149716498
>>149716453
I cannot believe nothing has come out since then
Replies: >>149716537 >>149717824
Anonymous
8/5/2025, 7:31:42 PM No.149716537
>>149716498
Part of me thinks Dobson may have killed himself, but then again if true, internet lolcow detectives would've found that out years ago.
And webcomics died off in sameway that sunday newspaper comics did, it was just obsolete media. Public video uploaders in the mid 2000s like youtube was the beginning of the end for that type of media on the internet.
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Anonymous
8/5/2025, 7:43:39 PM No.149716749
>>149716537
Really? No new webcomics came out since?
Replies: >>149716825
Anonymous
8/5/2025, 7:44:05 PM No.149716756
>>149715272
Still, would you rather have 30 seconds of forced meme fame and critic hate or decades of mild sustained success supported by a few loyal fans.
Anonymous
8/5/2025, 7:49:38 PM No.149716825
>>149716749
>>149716537
They do and have. Just changed forms from indie webcomics sites, to Tumblr, to WebToon app. Probably something else will come along.
Sunday syndication comics have mostly been handed off to run in perpetuity without their creators. Publication rights affords them a passive income for life. Not totally obsolete, just changes forms you're probably used to.
Anonymous
8/5/2025, 7:50:34 PM No.149716839
>>149705223 (OP)
>Eric Shwartz
>"generic".
Retard.
Anonymous
8/5/2025, 7:51:08 PM No.149716846
Durrdurr PizzaCake
Durrdurr PizzaCake
md5: 201009f74d361e6a6cb3f2e3b2e2de61๐Ÿ”
>>149716453
Oh these cringy webcomics still exist alright, just with a different artstyle

PizzaCake legit gives off Dobson vibes
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Anonymous
8/5/2025, 7:53:52 PM No.149716884
no-sleep-spongebob
no-sleep-spongebob
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>>149706058
I can relate, but for me it was Carmelita Fox and Lola Bunny.
Anonymous
8/5/2025, 8:02:45 PM No.149717017
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>>149716846
PizzaCake also isn't one person, theres multiple people making those PizzaCake comics.
Replies: >>149717763
Anonymous
8/5/2025, 8:15:02 PM No.149717180
>>149716846
There will never be another Dobby. Dobby had so many elements wrapped into one.
Replies: >>149717657
Anonymous
8/5/2025, 8:17:34 PM No.149717220
>>149713361
Minerva mink?
Anonymous
8/5/2025, 8:49:35 PM No.149717657
>>149717180
Dobson, much like Chris Chan, lived his childhood and teen years throughout the correct time period to create a person like him: An out of touch delusional comic artist with a huge ego who lashes out at any form of criticism.
Anonymous
8/5/2025, 8:55:34 PM No.149717749
>>149716846
Eh, Pizzacake doesn't pretend that she's right all the time, and knows she can be cringy. Different to Dobson.
Replies: >>149717763
Anonymous
8/5/2025, 8:56:37 PM No.149717763
>>149717749
PSA >>149717017
Anonymous
8/5/2025, 9:00:43 PM No.149717824
>>149716498
Because it's UGLY
Anonymous
8/5/2025, 10:19:57 PM No.149719030
>>149705223 (OP)
If I am understanding your implication correctly, there is not name for the "art style" because it was the predominant art style for newspaper comics and cartoons for around 50 years, from 1950-2000 at least. The whole white eye-black outline-black iris dot was used in old Hanna Barbara cartoons and comics like Peanuts back in the 1950s and was still used in Batman: The Animated Series in the 1990s. If you wanted to name it, probably "newspaper comic style" since it was mostly done to give an easy-to-read eyeball for black and white comics, and a lot of these early webcomics were specifically trying to mimic newspaper comics when they started.