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Andrew Dobson , better known online as Tom Preston (formerly CattyN), is an American former YouTuber, cartoonist, writer, and animator best known for creating webcomics such as So... You're A Cartoonist?, The Adventures of Alex Ze Pirate, and Formera. He is mainly represented as a blue bear wearing glasses and a fedora, and was primarily situated on platforms like DeviantArt, Twitter, and his personal websites. While Dobson has gained notable attention, he has been heavily criticized for his behavior online and response to feedback.
==History==
Dobson's first internet activity began on September 8, 2004, when he created a DeviantArt account. In 2006, he created a Yahoo account under the alias CattyN. He would create manga-styled artwork of females being inflated, soon getting multiple requests to make more. He would eventually create a DeviantArt and a website to promote the artwork. Eventually, he grew tired of drawing fetish art and left the community.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2repzxeSnc
=== Webcomics and collaborations ===
Around 2009, he created his first independent comic series called Danny and Spot, starring a human man and a cat comedically debating about video games and consoles, mainly the Wii and PlayStation 3.https://www.tumblr.com/hypocrisyofandrewdobson/656257010491408384/a-small-collection-of-danny-and-spot-comics-i In 2011, Dobson created the first issue of "So... You're a Cartoonist?", called Starving Artist. This would garner him attention online and a fanbase, eventually collaborating with YouTuber Brentalfloss to create comics parodying video games.https://brentalfloss.com/comic1 He would continue to work on other independent comics including The Adventures of Alex Ze Pirate and Formera. He would leave DeviantArt in 2017.
=== Departure ===
Beginning around 2020, Dobson left the internet by wiping all of his art and comics from his YouTube, X (formerly Twitter), Tumblr, and website without telling anybody. People have commonly theorized the reason why was due to family interference, as his brother lost a government job opportunity due to Dobson's infamous status online, some theorizing that his last comic being leaked on Kiwifarms was the straw that broke the camel's back for him. However, a true reason for his departure from posting online has never been confirmed.
==Content==
Dobson created his YouTube channel on September 27, 2006. He would upload animations mainly involving his characters or from other franchises, sometimes mixed with live-action footage of himself. Dobson created two videos in which he talked about the history of cel animation. However, many of these videos have been privatized since 2020.https://unlistedvideos.com/search.php?user=TomPreston6https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5XTKB8lgdhk&t
==Controversies==
===Criticism===
Dobson's comics have been criticized for his dry sense of humor, amateur art skills, and strawman arguments. Some have criticized his art for inconsistent anatomy, bland facial expressions, and a lack of improvement. However, Dobson is mainly notorious for his toxicity and inability to take criticism or feedback. On sites such as Twitter and DeviantArt, he'll sometimes get into arguments with fans whenever they try to provide feedback and sometimes block them. One example was an issue of So... You're A Cartoonist? (SYAC) where a fan criticized his comic, to which he responded by sarcastically saying no one would care.https://www.reddit.com/r/ComedyCemetery/comments/6hnjj5/andrew_dobson_totally_owns_a_hater/ 
Some have also called Dobson a hypocrite as he's known for criticizing anime and the medium's tropes in his comics, while his art style was heavily influenced by anime from the 1990s. He would claim on DeviantArt the reason why was because of the Disney film Treasure Planet, which was a commercial failure and they would fire the animators as a result, turning Dobson off from anime since he thinks the medium heavily inspired it, which was not true.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdyD8s8MFUo&t
Dobson is also infamous for his hatred towards changes to characters he grew up with, particularly with Nintendo franchises such as Mario and Metroid.https://soyouareandrewdobson.tumblr.com/post/734590250539778048/nintendo-vember-level-3-dobson-and-his-toxic This was due to his bully being blonde when he was a child, as well as being introduced to Nintendo IPs through Saturday Morning Cartoon adaptations in the 1980s, which were very loosely based on their original source material. One time, he made a blog criticizing Metroid Prime and defended Metroid Other M to his dying heart, the latter was controversal with fans due to its clunky story, poor gameplay and especially the character assassination of its female lead, Samus.
===Big Ben poster===
Around 2012, Dobson created a poster he created celebrating British pop culture, in which a picture of Big Ben was placed in and directly traced without the photographer's permission. Some criticized him for being lazy and for selling the drawing online. Dobson responded to the criticism by saying he was using it as a reference since many Big Ben photos are in the public domain. When some made fun of him for being unable to draw it, he later posted a YouTube video where he was able to draw the historical building.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4oNjcoAQ4U However, this led to more criticism since he could have drawn it instead of using a picture.https://www.tumblr.com/hypocrisyofandrewdobson/190217619596/special-post-the-big-ben-incident
===CattyN persona===
During the early 2010s, many of Dobson's old inflation artwork began to resurface when he was under the name CattyN. He garnered massive hate and criticism towards him for the gross fetish and hypocrisy, as Dobson had expressed for women's rights while many of his art depicted females from anime and other media being inflated. On the website, he claimed that he was a teenage lesbian, while in reality, he was an adult male while making inflation artwork. He also says that his fetish came from his love of blowing up balloons, which developed into a fetish once he discovered other fetish artists such as Inflate123 and LutherVKane.https://www.tumblr.com/hypocrisyofandrewdobson/171176316602/im-gonna-be-honest-i-never-really-expected-this
In a DeviantArt post, Dobson admitted that he did create fetish artwork, though he also criticized internet trolls and haters for digging up information.https://hypocrisyofandrewdobson.tumblr.com/post/618647832718704640/andrew-dobson-cattyn-finally-proof He also would go on to delete the original CattyN uploads, though many drawings are archived. 
===Power Girl comic ===
Some have also mocked how he makes himself to be a hero or victim in his comics. In one example of SYAC, a woman cosplaying as the DC character Power Girl is sexually harassed by an attendee, but Dobson notices and grabs a bat to beat the harasser. In 2019, fans found a photo of the cosplayer posing for the camera, with Dobson seen in the background, leading some to believe Dobson fabricated the story to make him out to be the hero.https://twitter.com/theebonymaw/status/1303103884047646720 However, some believe that the person in the background isn't Dobson. The comic went on to become an internet meme, and was parodied many times over the years.
===Zelda Williams tweet===
Around 2015, Dobson made a tweet to actress Zelda Williams with the image "Calm thy tits!" in response to her stress over the passing of her late father, Robin Williams. This gained immense backlash online, which made Dobson apologize to her and delete the tweet soon after.https://www.tumblr.com/hypocrisyofandrewdobson/173001059032/so-i-recently-responded-to-an-ask-with-this
===Lesbian representation ===
Some have also criticized him for poorly representing the gay and LGBTQ+ community in his art and comics, while hypocritically claiming to be an outspoken ally. One example is the characters of Alex and Atea in The Adventures of Alex Ze Pirate, who were used for jokes in sexual and objectifying scenes. One of the most infamous examples was in a comic where Atea kicks a woman in a beauty contest while shouting "lesbian kick". He had attempted to sell posters and shirts of the quote, however he was criticized for his pandering to lesbian couples.https://www.tumblr.com/hypocrisyofandrewdobson/174922909862/whats-up-with-the-lesbian-kick-thing He used to be known for drawing lesbian couples, such as Korra and Asami from The Legend of Korra. However, some have questioned whether or not he had a fetish for lesbian couples, mostly because of the Alex Ze Pirate criticisms and the lack of gay couples in his art.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdyD8s8MFUo&t 
===Political views===
Dobson is known online for his liberal views as he posts on his Twitter account, though he has garnered criticism for complaining about sexism and evidence of being a misandrist. The most notable backlash was when Dobson created comics mocking the character Vivian James for being sexist and misogynistic due to her connection to the forum website 4chan.https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/000/837/631/34c.jpg This was done in response to the far-right political movement Gamergate, where the alt-right harassed and cyberbullied several female game developers and journalists (notably Zoe Quinn and Anita Sarkeesian). However, Dobson received criticism from fans for supposedly misinterpreting Vivian James's character and her meaning, as she was made in collaboration with The Fine Young Capitalists who help raise money for female game developers. Dobson would later apologize in a comedic manner in one of his comics.https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/000/840/642/c01.jpg
Around 2016, Dobson would post several death threats on Twitter to the 2016 then-presidential candidate Donald Trump. Some haters criticized him for saying that his death would be beneficial to the human race and praising Kathy Griffin for wanting to decapitate Trump. He would briefly be suspended on Twitter for over a month from reports of these tweets. He would say he wouldn't apologize for his statements on Trump but would be more careful in his language.https://www.tumblr.com/hypocrisyofandrewdobson/170596603922/continued-from-part-1-but-you-see-its-actually
==Trivia == 
*Andrew Dobson graduated from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design with a Bachelor's in Fine Arts, though he says that the school didn't help him provide a job.https://www.tumblr.com/hypocrisyofandrewdobson/171315941817/andrew-dobson-likes-to-blame-his-failings-as-an 
**Andrew Chesworth, an animator who attended the same college as Dobson around this time, would later work at Disney and became well-known for his short films like and . Ken Ashcorp, under the pseudonym ForeverPandering, would compare the two in his rant on Dobson.
* It's been theorized that Dobson was bullied as a child in school, so severe to the point that he had to move to a different state, which explains his negative reactions towards changes to the characters he grew up with into blond.
*He originally wanted to work for Disney, but according to him, he didn't get the job because he thinks Anime (which was becoming popular in America at the time) was to blame for Treasure Planet being a box office bomb, which was not true. This led to having a hatred towards Japanese animation in general after this.
*The name CattyN originated from the character of the same name from the anime Gall Force.https://www.tumblr.com/hypocrisyofandrewdobson/171176316602/im-gonna-be-honest-i-never-really-expected-this
* Around 2012, Dobson was sprayed in the face with a water bottle by a troll at a convention in England.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7rgXKUXOgvU Dobson would say he developed PTSD and anxiety from the incident due to the fear that trolls could do worse to him.https://www.tumblr.com/hypocrisyofandrewdobson/173757372092/hey-do-you-have-that-screenshot-where-he-says-that
==References==
==External Links==
*The Hypocrisy of Andrew Dobson
*Know Your Meme
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