Out of curiosity, may I ask what the story behind the Hanklerfish is? Where did the idea come from?

edwardspoonhands:

Yeah, I just realized that that’s actually what that last ask was asking. They weren’t asking “Could you please comment on the peculiarity of the cultural institution of autographs and how it relates to the concept of self.” They were asking “What’s the connection between you and Anglerfish.”

The connection is that one of my most popular songs is about Anglerfish.

Then, when John was signing 150,000 “J Scribble”s for TFiOS, I wanted to do something on a small percentage of them, but signing a book that I didn’t write with a name that most people who bought the book wouldn’t recognize seemed like a silly thing to do. Katherine suggested that I draw anglerfish on them, so that’s what I did. Those 7500 “Hanklerfished” copies of TFiOS are pretty rare and sometimes go on eBay for hundreds of dollars, which is weird. 

You can see us talking about that whole era of Nerdfighteria here.

The timing of this couldn’t be more perfect.