Elles or the reason why my OC Lydia Golan exists.

There was a old adage that says "Art imitate life". Or for the cartoony-esque world, "Animation is based of plagiarization" like says the fictional Itchy & Scratchy cartoon producer on an iconic The Simpsons episode that recalled (almost) today the real-life lawsuit of Walt Disney against Van Beuren for ripped off the whole character of Mickey and Minnie Mouse in his own films. 

Ironically, someone from a Time's special magazine for the 90th Mickey's birthday year has took the "fake" Mickeys (Van Beuren-style) on one page by make it like the Walt's rodent hero instead of images from his actual works. Americans are among the worst illiterates you ever figured out, and that this lazy way to make pretending on a notworthy magazine the history of probably, the biggest cash-grabbing cartoon star ever made and first succesful cartoon character from the "sound" era is prone to ignorance of general culture.

And there, went Elles. Who is she? Just look at this "creepy" face on the book seen at right above.

While that tri-series went a phenomenon for some, Elles is clearly the first example that a character these days, is no longer based of life, but of datas or algorithms for supply the social media needs and that is very hard to look of that female "hero" (I refuse to says "heroine" to how blatant that gender-switch term is become) without that went from your typical social media picture profile than a real person.

In spite of it, the work of Kid Toussain and Évelyne Stokart clearly steal the many moods of Daffy Duck for that character, by take probably the most hated era of the duck from online 'Toons fans: The Speedy-era one. The iconic Warner's black duck was called "Daffy" for a bright reason, I suppose...

When those Daffy-Speedy cartoons were showed at that time, they were muchly occasional fillers than admiration for the pair or something. The Speedy Gonzales character getting a huge following overseas than it ever had in the America by be constantly repeated ad nauseam here and there. The early-00s seen the rodent mouse on a small controversy... by Ted Turner, which he claimed the character at "racist" and "offensive for Mexicans". At my knowledge, they're okay cartoons. Much typical of what the Termite Terrace crew achieved at that time, but that weren't the point to pictured the Mexicans people at lazy bums stereotypes, like says, the cringe-worthy things that Warner Bros. has done to blacks or Indians people for that matter.

And when an edict revealed that in Mexico, the characters from Warner that were the most aimed to Mexican fans were Speedy of course, and also... Daffy Duck! 26 animated shorts were produced on a 3-years run contract (Muchly for sold them for Television packages) to a pair that can't work, have no business to work together and are more deranged, mean-spirited and oft-putting than funny. And this is there the asshole and villain side of Daffy has begun. Elles ripped it on a very uncomfortable way that it's as to ask why that own a status of cult-series for such of a grating knock-off.

This is there over three years later, Lydia Golan came part at an AI-creation and one experience that I am the more proud. Her inclusion to life was to me, deemed necessary if the whole "Girls Only" schtik has stopped to be appealing or a novelty since COVID went to an end. And where feminicides from sexist masculinistics take over by a right-winging elite that is more ill-fitting than it ever was. In comics for example, the saturation of stock girls-leads characters is just baffling, from people who are probably alone in their lives, by imaginated a fictional heroine in order to overpass their lewd impulses to the audience. Dupuis seems to ignoring it, but a lot of their females characters are so interchangeable, it's as to ask if the real-life girls actually are part of their readers clientele. Lydia came like an alternative by breaking-up that dated Tumblr feminist-BS trend.

In a time where Mary-Sues from the internet became real things, it is all the more strange that veterans artists like me have growed-up better with characters and themes that make all the more consistant to the world in 2025, when the demand for more new male characters, without any horrendous fanservice in there, is on the table. Grow up, comics book editors!