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 eyes, 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 most liberties were taken with the Ty Cobb story, who is 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.