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Does Jeph hate fat guys?

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Schnuh330:
The comments by Jeph after the Claire revelation, about QC being inclusive of all people, brought about this thought. "Does Jeph hate fat guys?" Thinking about the large cast, I couldn't think of any fat guys. Even the barfly redneck novelist was rather trim. Sure the strip has fuller figured curvy females, but all the guys are either starved skinny indie boys like Marten, or fit trim and athletic like Steve. Where are all the fat guys? Throughout history there is always a fat guy. Family guy has Peter Griffin, Seinfeld had George, Southpark has Eric Cartman, the 3 Stooges had Curly & Joe (the best ones anyway, it just wasn't the same with Schemp.) Given the state of health in America and the ever increasing girth of the nation it seems amiss that there is no fat guy in the cast. Is it just an oversight, an unitended slight? Am I forgetting someone? Is it deliberate? Does Jeph hate fat guys? Maybe he just can't draw them to a standard he feels comfortable enough to include them in the cast? What are your thoughts?

akronnick:
Elliot.

pwhodges:

--- Quote from: Schnuh330 on 05 Dec 2012, 01:28 ---Is it just an oversight, an unitended slight? Am I forgetting someone? Is it deliberate? Does Jeph hate fat guys?
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None of those.  This comic already has an unusually large cast, but even so cannot include a representative of every type that you care to define.  When Jeph introduces a character with a particular feature, it is because he has some interest in that - and each feature that he has an interest in pushes another feature down the list.  Nothing sinister in that, but just chance.  Also, nothing that Jeph does is for the sake of what could be described as tokenism, so he wouldn't make a character fat just for the sake of having a fat character.  And if you're thinking specifically of a fat male, the fact that well under half the characters are male anyway reduces the chance that there might happen to be a fat one.

However, it might not be prudent to take up a crusade on behalf of a fat character in particular, since it was an email containing unfortunate remarks about Marigold not being represented as realistically fat that triggered Jeph's breakdown a month ago.  And anyway, Jeph very rarely takes ideas from his fans.


--- Quote from: akronnick on 05 Dec 2012, 03:10 ---Elliot.

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Elliot is big, but not all that fat, I suspect.

de_la_Nae:
Depending on his mood and how ornery they're feeling I can't imagine he always feels very good about fa/tg/uys, though.

Schnuh330:
Elliot is really tall but I wouldn't call him fat especially as he is shown here http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2021
He might have a bmi over 25 but I'd say not by much, and I see why you may suggest him from the way he is drawn in the strips immeditely after where it is a lower chest and up view of him and his arms look really big but not well defined, which may make you think he's fat, but clearly he's not.

I wasn't thinking of taking up an email campaign for a fat guy, just posing a question and looking for discussion. I'm glad Jeph doesn't take fan ideas, look at some webcomics that do, seriously they are terrible.  I don't seriously believe he hates fat guys, it's just a provocative title for a post and it made you read it. 

Maybe we're both wrong and Elliot really is meant to be fat but stylitically everyone in qc just looks skinny the same way all Peter Chung's (Aeon Flux, Phantom 2040, Reign) character designs come out.

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