💼 Careercow Andrew Dobson (aka Tom Preston)

[Silvana]

I see where he's coming from. The thing is, with proper care, you can live a relatively normal life with chronic depression. For some people it does become too much to bare and they choose to end their lives but it's far from a death sentence. There are plenty of people with chronic depression who want to keep going, who want to keep fighting, and they do.

Cancer doesn't care how hard you fight. It doesn't care how badly you want to live. It just eats you and you'll be lucky if it stops (depending on the type of cancer).

I think it's a good analogy in one respect. People without depression often don't understand how crippling it can be, so it's helpful to compare it to something like cancer that's a physical threat to your body. I think what he's trying to say is that living with chronic depression is very, very difficult and we shouldn't blame the person suffering if they want to give up, because we don't know what it's like to be in their shoes.

But you know Dobson doesn't see it that way.

I take your point re: depression. It may be that Dobson is suffering from depression, but does his best to fight it - gotta keep on tweeting, pushing that paint roller, getting through another day... It's just that we've loooong passed the point where it's possible to take anything the man says in good faith! I suppose it's that (in combination with his basic dishonesty, ability to bounce back from feeling suicidal in a matter of days etc.) that leads me to believe we're dealing with a case of "the boy who cried wolf". (Or if you prefer, the bear who cried suicide...)

 

[JU 199]

Why is he obsessed with batman?

 

[CWCissey]

Why is he obsessed with batman?

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Because Nookie Bear really wishes he was Batman

 

[Adamska]

[MEDIA=twitter]621574559964106752[/MEDIA]Dobby getting upset that people aren't treating him with as much sympathy as someone dying from cancer.

To further take the comparison of cancer to depression home, let me state this: if you're sad then go to the brain doctor you fuck! It's what you'd do if you were sick and it turned out to be cancer, so what does a fucked up chemical balance in your brain have that makes it so you can just sit there?

And yes, I do know that the reason why he don't is because he's faking this harder than his "PTSD", but the prior statement was designed to unravel his point. Because he will NOT go to a shrink; that takes away da pity and asspats, and it'd mean his lies about himself and his made up problems would get thrown back into his face.

Why is he obsessed with batman?

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Because it's popular and I guess "problematic"? All I do know is that he's dumb on the "paranoid" thing. Batman made those counterplans to his partners in the Justice League because he saw what the Justice Lords were capable of doing and had pretty accurate predictions on what the JL could do if they ever went rogue. They were also all nonlethal to boot, and the villain Vandal Savage was the one to change them to being lethal.

But fuck knowing this; his knowledge on this stuff only extends to what he hears from others; he don't read or watch this stuff.

 

[Pickle Inspector]

To further take the comparison of cancer to depression home, let me state this: if you're sad then go to the brain doctor you fuck! It's what you'd do if you were sick and it turned out to be cancer, so what does a fucked up chemical balance in your brain have that makes it so you can just sit there?

And yes, I do know that the reason why he don't is because he's faking this harder than his "PTSD", but the prior statement was designed to unravel his point. Because he will NOT go to a shrink; that takes away da pity and asspats, and it'd mean his lies about himself and his made up problems would get thrown back into his face.

Yeah, he says trolls cause him stress yet he continues to use twitter so it would be like someone getting cancer treatment but refuse to stop smoking.

Why is he obsessed with batman?

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Dobby going on about cartoon Batman reminds me of the way autistic people that say things like "I liked the series I watched when I was a kid and don't like change!".

I bet he also got upset about the new Teen Titans cartoon.

 

[AnOminous]

To further take the comparison of cancer to depression home, let me state this: if you're sad then go to the brain doctor you fuck! It's what you'd do if you were sick and it turned out to be cancer, so what does a fucked up chemical balance in your brain have that makes it so you can just sit there?

Also, people certainly criticize Steve Jobs for using quackery instead of real medicine when he first got his cancer diagnosis.

Dobby going on about cartoon Batman reminds me of the way autistic people that say things like "I liked the series I watched when I was a kid and don't like change!".

So it's blarms for blue bears.

 

[A Random]

At least one can argue the new Teen Titans cartoon tries too hard to be funny.

All Dobson's doing is complaining that Batman's darkness is overrated, as if Batman 66 was the ideal [as opposed to just the best].

 

[ShittyRecolor]

What the

Why is he obsessed with batman?

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What the fuck is "cryptonite"? Is it a magical substance that allows Dobbo to whine all day without doing anything productive?

 

[Foltest]

I found the superman that Frank Miller made in TDKR (only that one, the rest sucks) to be very human. He do what he thinks is the best for people. When he fights bats, he is very reluctance to do that, as he doesn't want to hurt or kill him. And in the end when he notice batman to still be alive, what is his reaction? He smiles and keep quit.

 

[Gensdupays]

Despite all of Dobson's sperging about Batman, I bet he hates The Brave and the Bold. See, that's the right way to have a comedic interpretation of a franchise.

 

[Malt Liquor]

His Spergin' on Batman is reachin' the "obsession" level
How long until He try to thrash some copies of TDKR in a comic book store,telling the cashier to "Don't call anybody" and then spry water against the manger as an act of "Vengeance for my PTSD" ?

Someone should tell Him to read Pat Mills "Marshall Law" and then wait the Sperg-Volcano goin full St.Helens

 

[Stud2Stud]

When looking at Dobson's bad art, I just realized:
Dobson being so lazy, that he's half-assing the stuff he's putting out in his chosen line of work without ever putting effort into it.
-or-
Dobson actually putting in a lot of effort and failing so spectacularly badly.
What would be more sad?

Also, Dobson's the kind of village idiot, he actually seems to think along the lines of Publishers and Movie Distributors: To them, an illegally streamed/downloaded movie/game directly equals one lost sale of a copy of said movie/game. I have a feeling, Dobson thinks he'd have more patrons if his twolls wouldn't leak his poorly drawn soap-box rants in comic form.

Deep down Dobson knows the only reason people engage with him is to argue. This is reverse psychology. What he's actually saying is, "Please talk to me. Oh god, I'm so lonely!"

Also: "please validate my victim-complex"... Dobson's fond of slamming out controversial views on certain topics and then acts surprised when he actually reaps in some controversy.

What doesn't Dobhead respond smugly to?

Squirtguns.

It would be filled to the brim with lesbians. You know, for kids!

Indoctrination works best when they are still young.

I don't think that he will be able to do a skyrim ryhme book (apart from being a lazy fuck). Because Skyrim IP is own by Bethestada. I don't think they will let Dobson get near their IP and try to sell shit for money.He would get sued up his ass.

You know... for no apparent reason, I was reminded of another (far more talented and educated) webcomic artist.
Randall Munroe, the guy behind XKCD, released a book called "Thing explainer". It contains diagramms like this one, that explain things only using the thousand most common english words.
So, one guy has vague ambitions to maybe someday get around to make a rhyming book centred around a video game (that, while being good, ceased being relevant years ago) whereas the other just releases an interesting book with a nice idea behind it. For some reason, that really strikes me.

 

[Florence]

Ive wasted most of my working day writing a poem about Mud Crabs for Dobbies skyrim books.


so far this is all I have

Mud crabs live in Tamriel
in shallow waters they scuttle
Dobson doesnt handle criticism well
He will block you as rebuttal

"There once was an artist named Preston,
Whose art people used to protest on.
He demanded donations,
For drawing inflations,
And acted like Christian Weston."

EDIT: How about this?

"Dobson hates violent gaming,
Instead he plays Splatoon.
Dobson likes to draw the characters,
So they're the size of a balloon."

 

[amandahugenkiss]

He just keeps on bitching about Batman and Miller because discussion of both is so vogue with the SJW crowd these days. Batman because a great score of reasons (lesbians, trans characters, etc.) and Miller because he's an easy target for their scorn*.

Also I am mildly surprised he hasn't touched The Batman seeing as how that universe's Batgirl is just his type:

But I guess the anime-esque style does nothing for his boner artistic integrity.

Spoiler: *Minor Miller Sperging

Never mind that one of his earliest comics, Ronin, would be something they'd cream over because it features a samurai (POC), a black woman (WOC) and a limbless telepath (a differently-abled character).

 

[Stud2Stud]

I was going to say baboon rhymes with Splatoon, but then I remembered it's bonobos that are the lesbian monkeys (thanks Chris).

I wonder why he has the Minecraft server option. If he played the game, we'd have seen him sperging over it on Twitter. We got how many tweets about Skyrim's toilets?

Well, I remember him tweeting images where he showed off some pixel art he made in Minecraft. Basically, it was a huge image of a pixelated LesbianKickLesbian.... admittedly, it looked decent, I'd say if he made a comic with sprite-like pixel-art (like 8-bit theatre), it might at least be visually appealing in some way.

 

[ZehnBoat]

"There once was an artist named Preston,
Whose art people used to protest on.
He demanded donations,
For drawing inflations,
And acted like Christian Weston."

there once was a man named dobby
who's attitude was slobby
he thought it'd be great
if women inflate
and that's why drawings his hobby

EDIT:
can we send dobby a plague that says "I like them round and big - sir mixalot"

 

[DrChristianTroy]

Why is he obsessed with batman?

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Because Batman is dope. As for what he posted....

1- They continued to fight because it's marketable. There were also a shit ton of stories and he singles out a single one? There's been the aforementioned Justice Lords/Tower of Babel story, the Hush story where Superman was mind controlled, in Red Son because Superman was a dirty commie. All sorts of wacky shit. So to throw out one vague reason and getting it wrong is pretty uninformed.

2- How the fuck do you spell kryptonite wrong?

 

[ZehnBoat]

2- How the fuck do you spell kryptonite wrong?

i was going to say that he was spelling the real element
but krypton starts with a K too
i'm guessing crypt is fucking up his spelling.

dobby liked to complain all day
about trolls getting in his way
a word you can see
doesn't start with a C
but in fact starts with a K
(i should make a limerick thread or something, i can do this shit all day)

 

[JU 199]

Why does he state "unpopular opinions" and then get salty when people don't agree with him....

Dobson the originalist (or else)

 

[HU 096]

Probably super late, but...
http://tompreston.deviantart.com/journal/Leaving-DA-540029395

Wanna bet how long this'll last?

EDIT;; put under a spoiler mark:

Spoiler: Leaving dA...

Hey everyone...

The Announcement

As you likely know, I’ve been struggling with this site for quite some time now. The constant trolling and harassment for years on end have pushed me to the breaking point. I’ve tried disabling comments to ease up on the hatred of me, but sadly DA is still too broken in too many ways that make it easy for nasty people to continually abuse me here. I’ve tried ignoring it. I’ve tried leaving temporarily and coming back after a hiatus... nothing works. My block list is so full I can’t add anyone else now, so the harassment continues unhindered despite all my best efforts. I continually receive death threats over incredibly petty and stupid things, and trolls seem to relish in lurking in my DA frontpage comment sections (which DA will not let me remove).

The straw that broke the camels back though was a thread on my recent Patreon Plug journal: tompreston.deviantart.com/jour… where I learned just how fucked up the people who harass me are. To make a long story short, I engaged in a conversation with someone who didn’t like my Patreon because they felt I don’t post enough for them to support it. “Enough,” as it turned out to be, was insanely more work than any sane person would be capable to handle (around 30-70 works of fully completed illustration/comics a week), and the amount they expected me to do it for was worse than the minimum amount I was asking for ($1 per month).

I think I have, at long last, outgrown this website. DA is a great place if you want to post art for free and make a start creating... but the second you want to try and actually make money for your hard work, this place turns into “artists should make art for art’s sake and not for money” backlash. And unfortunately I can’t live like that. I need money and support if I’m going to continue to make work. Twitter, Facebook, and Patreon all are doing a lot better at giving me that support (and offer a lot of tools to help curb harassment) than DA does right now.

So yeah... I think at long last I am going to leave DA permanently.

What happens next?

Now into the nitty gritty details of how this is all gonna work...

1. For starters I am NOT QUITTING ART. I want to make that clear. I am going to continue to make SYAC, Alex Ze Pirate, Skyrim, my own illustrations, etc... they just won’t be posted here on DA anymore.
2. I am not going to delete this account. I will leave it up so links to my art and gallery can continue (and to prevent further drama and parody accounts of course).
3. Art has been scheduled to be posted here from Patreon up until August 24th. So while I will no longer be here on DA as of today, for a couple months after you will still see some work from me posted here.
4. The art scheduled to be posted is automated by DA. I have already set it to post, but I am not the one posting anymore.

Places you will still be able to find me at

Like I’ve already said, I am NOT QUITTING ART. You can still find me on a number of different places on the internet. One of the best places to find me is Twitter, since that’s where I primarily interact with fans, and anything I post to twitter gets automatically copied over to Facebook as well. For your reference are are links to all the sites I’ll still be active on:

Twitter: twitter.com/ADobsonComics
Facebook: www.facebook.com/SoYourACartoo…
SYAC Website: www.syacartoonist.com/
Patreon: www.patreon.com/ADobsonComics
Society 6: society6.com/adobson

Currently both Alex Ze Pirate and my own personal website AndysArtworks are down for construction. Patreon support is what has been helping rebuild those websites and eventually they will be back up... but sadly it takes both time and money to do so, so they might be down for quite a while longer still.

The Long Goodbye

I’ve been toying with leaving for quite some time. I’ve been hesitant to because I know a lot of you really do appreciate my work and DO support me and my art. I have around 56 thousand watchers, and that’s a lot of people I don’t want to let down. I also know that it’s the vocal minority that are the haters... but unfortunately their voices drown everything else out. DA, as a website, seem to care little about fixing many of the issues that would make continued existence here bearable, and overall I have grown weary of a lot of the toxic DA culture that has started to fester lately. On top of all that, I’ve been dealing with my own issues of anxiety, PTSD, and depression... which has not made living here on DA any easier.

In the end, I think this will be the healthiest option for me, though it will undoubtedly depress a lot of my fans. There are some people who only follow me on DA and it’s unfortunate that I have to leave them behind to take care of myself.

Thank you to everyone who has been kind to me here. I have made a lot of good friends on this site over the 11 years I’ve been active here. I hope still to someday meet some of you at conventions in the future too! I’ve had a lot of ups and downs in that time, and it most definitely has been a bit of a rollercoaster ride, hasn’t it? Thank you all for your support. Even if you’ve never spoken up before, I could still see you supported my work through favorites and reblogs.

Who knows, maybe someday down the road if DA decides to change some of their policies and the toxicity levels decrease, maybe I’ll return? It’s doubtful, but I do try to look on the positive side.

Anyway... Thank you everyone for supporting me, for helping make SYAC into a thing, for enjoying my Alex Ze Pirate comics, and for just being awesome and amazing fans over the years.

Goodbye.

-Andrew Dobson (aka: Tom Preston)