Thomas Fay Syndicate (TFSyndicate for short) is a deviantART account specializing in comic-style fan art, photography and media by Thomas Fay.
His résumé includes fan art of Parappa The Rapper, They Might Be Giants, The Monkees, Gorillaz, among others.
Projects with their own pages:
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Other project tropes
A Train's WorldStarted in 2007, this is an "urban Thomas & Friends" set in the New York City Subway.
- Catchphrase: The E train's is "Mario! Are you LISTENING?!?"
- Cranky Neighbor: The E train is 100% ill tempered, and really hates it when you try to ignore his rants.
- Shout-Out: Mario, the main character, has a newsstand at the Times Square station. Ever read The Cricket in Times Square?
Radio RadioThe continuing adventures of radio personality Todd Zeppelin, a franchise consisting of Short Film and fiction piece College Radio, Webcomic strip Baby Radio, and the flagship lit series Alien Radio. Also in development are Fish Radio which deals with mermaids and Atlantis and stuff, and Baby Radio: The Next Generation, centering around Todd's offspring.
- Amazing Technicolor Wildlife: Mermaids Bell and Tulip are blue and green, respectively.
- Fun T-Shirt: In addition to his L train ball cap, Todd's shirt has a classic rock-themed graphic on it, and it's never the same one twice.
- Innocent Aliens: This applies to all the aliens (Todd included) working on the Woodstock. As a matter of fact, aliens who pose an actual threat haven't been introduced yet.
- Minimalist Cast: In the Short Film, it was just Todd and Marcus. There was an actress hired to play Pearl Jam, but her scene ended up
on the cutting room floor.
- Pokémon Speak: Ello says "Hello", iMoccaneer says "I'm Walkin' Here!"
- Translator Microbes: In the form of a typical set of headphones with a microphone attached to it.
- The Un-Reveal: "Martian Mystery Tour"
has Todd and Numar figure out why the Mars rovers missed Numar and her people. The story ends before we find out why.
Artwork tropes
- Art Evolution: The earlier work has thinner lines and badly drawn boobs. The Train's World comics, which predate the DeviantArt account, is much sloppier, and the handwriting is sometimes unreadable. In more recent years, the Syndicate's work is primarily made in Illustrator over hand-drawn sketches.
- Big Applesauce: Except I.M. Hip, all original characters come from or live in New York.
- Fembot: The CUTE robots come in male and female varieties, the latter (namely Recyc the Recycling Bin) making up this trope, with simple eyelashes to identify them as such. There is also Stella, a prototype modeled after the Omnibot, with bushy hair and giant lips.
- Our Mermaids Are Different: Many come in different colors. But no matter how much they want to, they cannot assume a human form.
- Ridiculously Human Robots: Subway trains, gas pumps, clock radios, garbage cans, wristwatches... anything that has a face on it, particularly the ones designed by CUTE, which stands for Computerized Utilities and Talking Electronics.
- Roger Rabbit Effect: A good percentage of his photography feature his cartoon characters Photoshopped on top of them.
- Year X: Unless it's a period piece (like, say, the 90's), all projects are set in the year X+1.
