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{{anchor|nataliedee|natalie_dee}} NatalieDee

www.nataliedeemachine.com NatalieDeeMachine.com is live as of February 15, 2014

NatalieDee is a webcomic created by Natalie Dee Fairweather, one of the authors of Married to the Sea.

There was a new comic added daily to NatalieDee.com until 2013. The Webcomics comprise various sketches illustrating amusing or anecdotal situations from everyday life. The comics do not follow a plot, but do feature recurring characters such as Natalie Dee's dogs, Chester and Charles.

There are a number of references to Natalie Dee's own life, for example her pets and previous jobs and family, although the comics are not supposed to be autobiographical.

According to The Daily Gamecock, "Natalie Dee's comics are a daily dose of amusement, entertainment and, oftentimes, confusion", while they are referred to as "unbearable cuteness" by Entertainment Weekly.

The first Natalie Dee webcomic was published on 17 September 2002. At this point the comic was not regularly updated. The comic began being updated on weekdays from 29 December 2003 and then daily as of 9 May 2005 until December 5, 2013.

Since the first comics the overall look of the illustrations moved away from paper drawings, using software to create the hand-drawn style. Natalie Dee sometimes blends photographs or stock imagery with illustration.

As of December 5, 2013, NatalieDee.com is no longer being regularly updated. The front page randomly shuffles comics from previous dates.

In February 2014, Natalie Dee launched NatalieDeeMachine.com, a random comic generator in the style of classic Natalie Dee comics.

{{anchor|drew|drew_fairweather}} Drew

Drew Fairweather, professionally known as Drew, is an American author and artist residing in Vermont. He is notable for being the creator of the webcomic Toothpaste for Dinner, and is the co-creator of Married to the Sea, alongside his wife Natalie Dee Fairweather.

Drew was previously a research chemist and held several patents before transitioning to full-time work with his webcomic Toothpaste for Dinner. His industry work centered around the interactions of nitrogen-bonded urea with silicone gel, which formed the basis for his later music work (under the band name Hell Orbs) as "Piss Admiral Dildo Captain". For the first two years of TFD's existence, Drew worked as a cat photographer to "make ends meet" before it became popular. In September 2006, Drew revealed himself to be the entity behind the electronic musician KOMPRESSOR, which was previously only known by the alias "Andreas K.". Drew has since released other albums under the artist name Dog Traders and CRUDBUMP. On 11 April 2011, Drew published his first novel, Veins.

In 2015 Drew revealed that he was "Mr. Eggs", a notorious internet troll who posted hundreds of times to "Misc," a forum on bodybuilding.com. Drew has also spoken of inserting false “facts” into Wikipedia articles.

References

References

1. (26 February 2010). "An interview with famed comic artists Drew and Natalie Dee – TechCrunch".
2. (14 September 2006). "The Approval Matrix: Week of September 25, 2006".
3. [http://www.subversivecrossstitch.com/query12.htm Dogs Names] {{webarchive. link. (2009-07-06 Interview with Natalie Dee)
4. [http://media.www.dailygamecock.com/media/storage/paper247/news/2008/10/02/TheMix/The-Mix.Tape-3464875.shtml Daily Gamecock Article] {{webarchive. link. (2008-10-14 Issue:2 October 2008)
5. [https://ew.com/article/2006/12/26/what_were_your__1/ What were your favorite pop-culture holiday gifts?] Entertainment Weekly Article
6. (31 January 2013). "The Rumpus Interview with Natalie Dee".
7. "Natalie Dee - ARCHIVE: Dec 2013".
8. Dee, Natalie. "Natalie Dee Machine: Problem. weird dog.".
9. (June 26, 2023). "yeah if vermont hadn't rolled out fiber in half the state we wouldn't have been able to move here. i'm not gonna be dependent on starlink lol".
10. Anderson, Sam. (24 June 2005). "Toothpaste for Dinner; A slide-show of the most addictive comic on the Web". [[Slate (magazine).
11. Anderson, Sam. (24 June 2005). "Toothpaste for Dinner". [[Slate (magazine).
12. (June 2023). "Julie Klausner, Pick Up Artists and the tale of Mr. Eggs".
13. "Archived copy".
14. "Toothpaste For Dinner Blog".
15. "KOMPRESSOR".
16. (8 July 2023). "Dog Traders music, videos, stats and photos".
17. "CRUDBUMP: rap music by Drew et al.".
18. Drew. (6 April 2011). "Veins". Sharing Machine.
19. ''Everything is Real,'' episode 24