More on the process.

The second video letter from Lynn to her fans explaining her alleged creative process had her draw Farley while snickering that her meal-ticket was, like all dogs, a smelly, stupid, slobbering, foul-smelling, dirty source of chaos because that’s all dogs are to her. Leaving aside the internalized hatred of dogs she got from her mother, the shaking hands that she claimed as an excuse for not being able to do any more new material were not in evidence. What was in evidence in this and from her talk at the Schulz museum is that she is no longer able to draw the human characters the way that she used to back in the early eighties. What we saw was a sort of horrific amalgamation of the real Elly of the past and the potato-nosed horror freak of the Declining Years; in short, the character I once called RevElly.

What this tells me is that she should have kept something else in her files aside from a template for the panels; that something is a model sheet for her characters so she can see how they’re supposed to look instead of doing the stupid thing she does do and flip through an old collection and do a half-assed job on the characters. Were she to do that, we wouldn’t have to look at a supposedly thirty year old Elly who had a nose en route to becoming a trunk and we certainly wouldn’t have Dainty Doll-boy Michael.