Last week, we asked why TIME chose the cartoon at right to represent AMC alongside her online columns. Do they really think that she wears Sears sweaters? No word back from TIME yet, but the guy who doodled the graphic, the masterful Terry Colon, tells BHR on the record that he personally doesn’t think Cox is fat.

“That’s just the way I draw, everyone is short and squat,” he says. “I’m fairly sure the character designers at The Simpsons don’t think everyone is chinless or yellow.”

We also found out that Colon used to work with Cox at Suck.com (which may explain a lot about the less-than-flattering picture, since many past colleagues of the infamous blogger seem to harbor a bit of hate for her). Colon says those were the “days when she was a bit more… robust, shall we say.”

“And she did wear an orange turtleneck,” he reports. “I confess I haven’t seen her in years, so my memory might be failing me.”

The illustrator adds that if the public outcry and the opinion of TIME demands that he changes the art, he’s more than willing. “It’s not like I think the illo is the Mona Lisa or anything,” says he.