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Got reached out and I'm going to cry. You have no idea how much this means to hear. Him and Jim Davis are the reasons why I'm a cartoonist today. My heart is so full.

I talk all the time about how Jim Davis and Dav Pilkey were THE artists to show me that I could be an artist as a kid. I spent YEARS reading Captain Underpants and Dogman. I read my "Extra Crunchy Book O' Fun 2" book to exhaustion. My second grade book report was on Attack of the Talking Toilets.

I grew up with ADHD and other learning disabilities, and his books were the first to ever tell me, "You are not the problem." Dav is someone I never ever thought I would have the opportunity to tell him how important he and his work have been to me and what it has done to my future.

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I look at this and I think about how happy child me would be that we've actually got to show our idols what we've become and that they're actually proud.