>>88111188Years ago he introduced a character named Marigold who was convinced she was fat and hideous. Every other character said she was actually pretty attractive (anything unattractive about her was more due to bad habits and poor hygeine), but tumblr hamplanets decided she was meant to be a huge fatass and started identifying heavily with her.
Eventually she gets changed into a swimsuit, is incredible self-conscious, but surprise surprise turns out to have a pretty normal, attractive (if less twiglike than most characters in QC) body shape, and all the stuff about her being an ugly fatass was body-image stuff that was all in her head, just as other characters had repeatedly stated.
Tumblr flipped out and send him a deluge of angry emails and hate reblogs and whatever about "fat erasure" and how Jeph is a bigoted hack for not drawing her as the TRUE HUGE BEAUTIFUL WOMAN SHE WAS CLEARLY SUPPOSED TO BE, and JJ, being legitimately mentally unstable, responded to this wave of criticism by drinking an entire bottle of vodka in one go and stabbing himself through the hand to the point where he had to be hospitalized.
