What should we do about people misplacing our work?

As many of our followers should already know, for many months now we’ve reiterated that there is no longer any  association between our work and whatever the Zootopia fandom has  become. Since we, the original authors, firmly deny connection with the  Disney movie, it should be spontaneous for readers to refrain from  making up imaginary ones, for the only purpose to find peace and relief  in their fandomistic dimension. However, although the problem is  progressively decreasing over time, thanks to our unwavering  determination to defend what belongs to us, a small part of the people  who follow us doesn’t seem to understand (or, more likely, deliberately chooses to ignore) how things really are.

You  also have noticed, we hope, that in the past weeks we haven’t proposed  the figure of “Jack Savage” as the fandom, one fine day, has decided to  adopt him. Except for our comics still in progress, OD and JSF, our  Jack not only doesn’t show the original features of the old artwork, but  he’s also called Turner, which is his original surname since his birth  as our character, the same surname that will be used permanently in  the next comic with him and Cynthia. And yet, there are still people on  Tumblr and DeviantArt who label our posts with the magic word “zootopia”  (there are even those who still manage to call Cynthia “Skye” 🤷🏻‍♀️).  As we’ve already explained once (it should go without saying,  actually), this fact not only bothers us, but it also represents a  problem, because it perpetrates a misunderstanding which is going to damage us and our work in the long run.

For  this reason, today we are here to ask you your opinion on this  unfortunate matter. By clicking here, you  will be taken to a poll where you can choose from various options the  way you think we should act against this category of people described  above.

We  decided to write this post now because even the art for Cynthia’s  birthday, published yesterday, was considered like zootopian material by  some people. As authors, we consider this matter (along with many other  similas ones) very serious and annoying. Surely, there are artists who  don’t mind if their work is attached to the “Zootopia pool”, but we are  not this kind of people. We don’t want the old fandom we once belonged to, to take something which doesn’t belong to it.  As authors who take their work seriously, it’s our duty to preserve and  safeguard the identity and the belonging of our characters, even if  this may appear insane, uncomfortable, ungrateful or any adjective you  might like to attribute to our attitude. Just because they are  anthropomorphic animals, and just because we once created comics about  Zootopia, it doesn’t mean every other animal that comes out of our  fantasy is still an extension of this fictional universe. Insisting on holding onto this belief is nothing but disrespectful.