It varies toon-to-toon. Some are naturally gifted in that department, some are practiced/skilled, and for many it only works when it’s funny. Or not at all.

Claire can’t bounce back from physical harm, for example. Mac and Kelly are really resilient but can’t take extremes, and only pull things out of “hammerspace” out of an extreme necessity. Not-yet-introduced Bongo could pass through a wheat thresher without anything more than scratches and bruises, and can do old classic toon tricks at will, due to natural talent and training. Carolina’s the same way as Bongo, she’s just completely ignorant of it.

They looked about the same, if a leaning a bit more to certain extremes due to isolation or not interbreeding as much as they have with non-toons in recent times.

Toon appearances are pretty varied and sometimes how they look on TV/film is a result of make-up and special effects. In certain countries, specific aesthetics are prefered and therefore in the media more — I mean, Carolina and Claire could probably pass for “anime” with the right conditions, but they clearly don’t where they live and work. So in Japan, there’s still be Toons that look like, say, Roger, they’re just not gonna be the ones who end up on TV. Same with other eras — just like with our media, what has been desirable and attractive has changed with the times. Just because, like, during one era super-skinny women were popular and in the media most of the time doesn’t mean curvy women stopped existing, and vice versa.

Because of lyrics from “Witch Doctor” by Ross Bagdasarian (Dave Seville). It was kinda-sorta the prototype first “Chipmunks” song.

Lyrics:

“I told the witch doctor you didn’t love me true

I told the witch doctor you didn’t love me nice

And then the witch doctor, he game me this advice.”

It was originally to comment on an aspect of Mac and Claire’s relationship that doesn’t exist in a lot of the rewrites, but I kept the title because it syncs with a sort of theme throughout the comic about affection and validation for a lot of the characters, not just romantically.

Hair is one of my favorite things to draw so that pleases me.

Hahaha, it can happen. I’m more amused by the opposite, and that’s probably why it’s a subject I want to write about later.

It’s hard to say. People REALLY seem to like Claire, Mac, Carolina, and Praline. But people also sort of really like Kelly in a, like, weird cutesy overprotective way? And a lot of people like Roger. And Mac’s dad.

It’s hard to say. Maybe I should do a poll.

And cry when everyone likes background penguin #2 the most.

Yup! It can work that way. And the reverse happens for some of my characters later down the line.