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Originally Posted by Acujer
Kind of weird. He seemed a bit irritable. They asked if "the design for Eddie was based on footage of a decapitated head" and hes like,
"Oh that's complete rubbish."
But then he explains how he did base it on a decapitated head.
WTF?
"My pictures have sold more merchandise than Walt Disney. One for one Eddie outsells Mickey Mouse. I have sold more posters than the U.S. president in an election year."
Ok you wanna brownie pin?
"Look, Eddie is a painting. He doesn't have a personality, he doesn't eat, doesn't sleep, doesn't growl or bite. He doesn't believe in anything, he is not for anything or against anything. He is a painting ... OK?"
That was actually pretty funny.
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The question asks if Eddie was based on a decapitated head that he saw on a documentary about the Battle of Guadalcanal in WW2 which Derek says isn't true because as he says it was a picture in Time magazine and the photo was used as a reference for the painting, Eddie himself was not based on that head.
And outselling Walt Disney is one hell of an achievement!! If I did that, I'd be telling everyone too!!