Quote Originally Posted by Nimrod's Son View Post
Those are not custom avatars that imitate Rich's style. They're official board avatars that were drawn by Rich Burlew.
To be fair, I've seen a number of posters with customised avatars that look similar enough to Rich's style that I can't tell the difference.

There's no particular shame in that. The strength of the strip has always been in clever puns and convoluted dialogue, not foreshortening and perspective. I have certainly seen more traditionally-drawn webcomics where the art was much more off-putting for making the effort at anatomical detail and getting it wrong all over. In that context, I think the OOTS' style is something like a (very) scaled-back version of Pixar's reluctance to enter the uncanny valley. (And as someone who's worked on flowcharts, I can say that positioning lines and boxes is more time-consuming than it looks.)

So when I say 'no comment' what I actually mean is 'I don't mind either way'. If I had a problem, you would hear about it.