Talk:The Lives of Eccentrics/@comment-31029036-20190216090800

The Ty Cobb & Callyer Brothers chapters have a few elemants of Araki's art in them. Namely the noses & ears fit the late Diamond is Unbreakable art style, but from the neck down, the bodies are not any of his styles. The first pannel in chapter 6 has a girl with Onikubo eyes & an Araki nose. All of the male characters have Araki heads on non-Araki bodies. From Gorgeous Irene to Jojolion, Araki has always done elongated bodies with long bowing legs & high-set compact-yet-plump butts.

The Ty Cobb story seems to be a blend of the most sensationalist stories of Ty Cobb & Carl Mays, with the character actually looking more like the latter. Also, he threw a scuffball, not a spitball, & the crippled heckler was said to be handless not legless. Horwood did not exist, though there is a current player by that name. Cobb never threatened a pitcher on the field with a gun, but did claim to pistolwhip a mugger to death with one. His highest batting average was .366, not .367.

There's 2 hilarious callbacks in the Cobb story to the first chapter; 1) His mother was apparently having an affair with Nikola Tesla. 2) One of Edison's inventions burned his house down.

The Nikola Tesla story matches up with his Wikipedia article & everyone looks as they really did. It's REALLY hard to believe that this is the same artist or writer who did the Ty Cobb & Yishio Kou chapters.

There was a Yoshio Kou & a chimp named Oliver, but they do not come up in eachother's biographies, not does an attempt to crossbreed Oliver. The part about the karate champ & tiger was true though.

Araki followed the Mary Mallon story closely, outside of Mary's aggressive behavior which would have been in womanly for the 19th century, & the the fact that the clothing looks closer to 1916 than 1906,  but chose to make them look nothing like their photographs. Mary was tall, thin, & attractive while George Soper was a balding man with a huge mustache.