So for the longest time, I've been a HUGE fan of artist, Bill Sienkiewicz, mostly from comic books I collected in my teens. Since then, Bill has become Iconic in the world of comic books, his runs are legendary, a lot of the comic character designs for the Oscar Winning Animated Spider Man movie, "Into the Spiderverse" are based on Bill's character designs.
Anyways, a few years back, I gave my nephew, Noah, my drawing of the character, Wolverine, based on Bill's art work for his 6th birthday. Noah thanked me by sending a drawing of Wolverine that he drew.... On Sunday, I decided to tweet Bill about how I told my Nephew his Wolverine drawing reminded me of one of my all time favorite artists (second pic is character design for a mutant named "Warlock" drawn by Bill for the comic book "New Mutants")
This morning, I woke up to find that Bill had followed me, and retweeted my tweet w/ a comment,
Quote:Bill Sienkiewicz @sinKEVitch
WHOA
Noah: Keep drawing. Between you & your aunt @HaleysTusk, it's clear that incredible talent runs deep in the family.
Haley: You absolutely rock. Thank you.
Obviously, he misread my tweet, didn't see the drawing was addressed to "Uncle" Tony. It started getting likes, so I had to wonder if I should correct Bill and let him know I'm NOT Haley, or if I should just let it go.
In the end, "Honesty, is the best policy".... it's obvious he looked Haley up (You absolutely rock) and I didn't want him to think he was following "Haley", so I DM'd him to tell him I'm just a big Haley fan. I risked losing the follow, but being honest is the better way to go IMO.
To my surprise, Bill answered:
Quote:Sorry my bad.
Still, she’s awesome, so I get it!
But thank you!! Noah has some Chops
So I went ahead and elaborated, how I've been a fan of his for decades, explained how I found Haley and how she inspired waking up my creativity again... it was kind of longish, as I'm tend to do...
I Dm'd him a Haley piece I did that his art inspired....
To my surprise, Bill replied again! This time talking about Haley!

Quote:Aw thank you! Lovely piece! Keep crushing it.
And Thanks so much for turning me on to her work. When I saw your post, I immediately checked out her YouTube page and she’s fantastic. I applaud her independence and following her own path. So again, I totally get your appreciation of her work, and somehow that makes your appreciation of my work all the more special. So double thanks!
Now that Haley's on his radar, I HOPE he does a drawing of her

(Examples of his work, ....he's really amazing)