Joey Drew/novel
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History
Childhood
Joseph[1] "Joey" Drew was born in Paterson, New Jersey in 1901. Joseph's father was a shoemaker, who owned the store known as Drew's Shoes, and his mother was a homemaker by trade, who would also take care of the finances. As a child Joseph spent most of his time with his mother while his father was busy making shoes. Despite being poor, they were able to live comfortably. Though Joseph would often worry about would happen if his father didn't get the orders in on time.
When Joseph was 5 years old, he asked his mother one night how his father finishes making all the shoes. His mother tells him about the shoemakers elves, who help his father make the shoes. Skeptical, Joseph sneaks out of bed to his father's workshop where he hears elves voices and singing from the doorway. Looking through the crack of the door he sees his father making the voices for the elves.
Joseph's father seeing him explains that whenever he feels lonely, he imagines the elves helping him make the shoes. Joey and his father spend the rest of the night making shoes while singing together with the "elves". This would later play a major role in later in Joey's life, seeing this as proof that fantasies and make belief makes people's lives better.
World War I
When World War I began, Joey Drew lied on his enlistment form to join the United States Army, as he was too young to legally enlist at the time. He was assigned to the United States Signal Corps led by Sergeant O'Mally, which he found convenient, due to their base's close proximity to New Jersey. During the war, his squamates, Donaldson and Eckhart attempted to arrange a date for Joey, despite him not being interested, although he relents for unexplained reasons.
In 1917, Joey went to a gala where he was introduced to a hello girl named Lottie, the date who Donaldson arranged for Joey to begin with. After noticing the Initials "ZW" on his boots, sparking the curiosity of both Joey and Lottie. Over the next few years, Joey, with Lottie's aid, surreptitiously attempted to find out who "ZW" was, eventually ruling out the possibilities of "ZW" being either a soldier or a hello girl, as there were no known soldiers or hello girls bearing these initials, eventually coming to the conclusion that "ZW" referred to a spouse.
In 1918, Joey is assigned to the Signal Corps Radio Laboratories, where he first meets Nathan Arch. That same year Lottie is is shipped back to London while Joey remains in New Jersey. They continue to write to each other but Joey notices her letters becoming more sadder and darker. Joey decides to cheer her up by making up his own story on "ZW". A few weeks later he received a letter from Lottie, revealing that she believed the story and it cheered her up tremendously. Joey excited has Nathan help write letters back pretending to be the owner of the boots (though Nathan would later go on to say he never remembered doing such a thing).
The murder of Walter Richmond
In April 1920, Joey Drew is approached by Detectives Adam Sinclair to investigate the murder of Walter Richmond. Joey asks to join Detective Sinclair in his investigation to which he agrees. Two days later they go to Isabel Newsome's art gallery to question Mrs Pepper, Miss Newsome, Mr Wadworth and Everett. Three weeks later Joey is invited to a diner in Newport at Adelaide Richmond's house by Detective Sinclair where Mrs Richmond, Mr Wadworth, Everett, Mrs Pepper and Isabel Newsome are waiting. Detective Sinclair reveals Isabel is the murderer but without any proof or a confession, the detective leaves. Joey becomes friends with Mrs Richmond shortly after.
Working at the bookstore
Two weeks after visiting Miss Newsome's art gallery, Joey gets a job at Mr. Kirkpatrick's Bookstore. Working there he meets Abby Lambert in 1922, the two of them becoming friends. Abby takes Joey to his first true art gallery experience. That same year he also discovers his love for cinema, constantly visiting the Grand Cinema where a teenage Sammy Lawrence played the piano.
Meeting Henry and the studio's grand opening
Sometime before 1925, Joey first meets Henry Stein through Abby and gets job working alongside him at the bookstore. In the summer of 1928, Joey sees some of Henry's work on display at an art gallery hosted by Abby, which inspires him to create animated cartoons. Over the next few days Joey works on the financial side of his business plan. He gets help from both Nathan and Mrs Richmond for investments.
On a Saturday night, Henry is bought over to Joey's apartment with a sketch of a cartoon character. Although not what Joey was looking for, with some creative input from Joey the character Bendy is created. Henry offers Joey to be his business partner to which he agrees.
In 1929, Joey Drew Studios is founded in Brooklyn, New York City. However due to Joey's questionable work ethic and being away from his wife Linda so long, Henry left the company moving to Pasadena, California in 1930, much to Joey's fury.
Joey eventually realized he made a terrible mistake, though it was corrected easily. He realized he needed a composer for the cartoons, as his knowledge of music composition—apart from composing the small ditties heard in the early cartoons such as Tombstone Picnic—was not comprehensive enough to effectively compose music for the cartoons. After hearing Sammy Lawrence and Jack again perform at a party Joey was invited to, the latter of the three hired the former two to compose music for him.
Studio expansion and Bendyland
After Henry leaves, Joey begins to expand the studio and hires more animation staff to replace him. Also during this time period Joey becomes inspired to build an amusement park called Bendyland. He contacts Bertrum Piedmont who untimely agrees to help build the park in 1940. Joey however was very critical of Bertrum's creative work and would often annoy him by calling Bertrum "Bertie".
World War II
During World War II, many animators and artists from Joey Drew Studios were drafted to fight in the war. In order to keep up with the criteria Joey hired female employees such as Dot and Abby in the Art Department to fill in the roles. The studio starts to begin financial troubles due to excessive spending on Joey's part.
Volunteering Buddy
Around 1946, Norman, after joking to Buddy Lewek about Joey being dead, seemingly escorts Buddy to Joey's office, only to back out, partway through, due to Buddy's lack of familiarity with the studio's layout. Upon reaching the outside of Joey's office, Buddy collapsed from heat exhaustion. Joey, having overheard this, exits his office to find out what was going on. After finding Buddy lying on the wooden floor, Buddy announced his business, to which Joey brought him inside his office, unsure of who he is. After finding out about his suit delivery, he excitedly takes the suit from Buddy, and commends him on the suit's design, even taking it with stride that Buddy's mother tailored the suit. After finding out about Buddy's experience with drawing, Joey presents Buddy with a drawing of Bendy, and upon hearing Buddy's description of Bendy's personality, Joey reveals that very few have responded the same way, with many stating that he is just a cartoon, before offering Buddy a job at his studio as a gofer, to which Buddy accepts.
After Joey formally introduces himself, he does the same for Bendy but is surprised to find that Buddy had never heard of him. Joey offers to tour Buddy around the studio only to run into Thomas Connor outside his office, which means he was not able to tour Buddy around the studio after all, but he then offers Buddy a place in his animation studio, to which Buddy accepts. Joey then escorts Thomas into his office for an important meeting. He later appears when Abby Lambert brings Buddy before him, for stealing supplies for his own use.
Joey, however, takes this with stride, realizing that Buddy had reasons for doing this, though seeing it as ambition. He then encourages Buddy to keep working on Cowboy Bendy, which is what Buddy was working on. later on, Buddy runs into Joey Drew, who is elated to have run into the former. He presents Buddy with his first pay check, before taking Buddy to Sardi's to "celebrate." During their meal, Joey bonds with Buddy, even saying to talk to him if Buddy feels that Abby is overwhelming him, going on about dreaming and how he wants people to dream big. He then extends an invitation to Buddy to come to a company party that Joey is organizing, to which Buddy accepts. However, he has Buddy pay for the meal itself, to emphasize that Buddy should not be pointlessly spending money. When Buddy's grandfather enters the studio unannounced, he explores the entrance, despite Buddy's objections.
Having overheard this, Joey steps in. Despite introducing himself to Mr. Unger, and commenting on Buddy's proficiency with drawing, he makes it clear that he should not be entering the studio unless he had a reason to, which has clearly not the case with Mr. Unger, before having Buddy take Mr. Unger home. Later, he drives Buddy to Joey's preferred tailor shop to have Buddy fitted for a tuxedo, due to the formal nature of the then-upcoming company party. After Buddy receives his finished suit, Joey drives Buddy home to the Lower East Side, and is even pleased to hear Buddy's friends and neighbours, as well as the local business owners commenting on Buddy wearing a suit and going around with Joey, who encourages Buddy to "not keep his fans waiting". When Buddy arrives at Joey's company party, the latter greets the former and introduces Buddy to Bertrum Piedmont, who comments on the usefulness of gofers such as Buddy (this is meant to imply what the party is celebrating). Joey then proceeds to escort Bertrum to prepare for his speech. Eventually, Joey makes a ceremonious announcement unveiling Bendy Land, and announces what Bendy Land will have to offer.
Then, Thomas Connor and Allison Pendle arrive uninvited. Finishing his speech, Joey attempts to get them to leave. However, when Thomas makes his position known to Joey, he fires Thomas for not meeting his expectations, even going as far as claiming complete legal ownership of Thomas' Ink Machine, before firing Allison for siding with Thomas with a threat to alert the local security. Despite Thomas' objections, Allison escorts her fiancé out of the building. At the very end of the novel, after Buddy is revived as Buddy Boris, Joey reveals what happened to Buddy and even tells him to accept what happened to him and not to talk or make sense of it, as it would only frustrate him, even though he was already frustrated to begin with. As Buddy loses the ability to speak, Joey attempts to entice Buddy Boris into accompanying him to an undisclosed location, supposedly containing an abundant amount of food. Despite Boris the Wolf's personality beginning to take control, Buddy performs one final act of resistance: Crushing Joey's hand and throwing him to the floor and running away into the studio.
At the party
Bill Chambers meets Joey at a party along with Allison Pendle. They talk about the cartoons, the studio, and the Ink Machine. At the end of the book, Joey gives Constance Gray a ride in his car to Atlanta with Scott in the backseat.
Studio bankruptcy
On August 15, 1948 at the time of 9:30 AM , Snooks and Spitner send a bankruptcy report to Joey Drew Studios, which results in Joey Drew Studios getting shut down for good on August 28th. After Joey Drew Studios shut down, Joey disappeared from the public eye.
Creating the Cycle
It is revealed that the cycle is a realm Joey Drew created using the technology used for his TV show. He started to wander in the area and created more rooms over time, his main goal being to rebuild the studio but he has not yet decided on a true purpose for it.
New television show and promoting Rose
TBA
Retirement
Joey Drew is revealed to have moved to a small apartment where he would continue to live for the remaining years of his life. Because his legs are beginning to fail, he would often use a wheelchair to go around. He then sends a letter to his old friend Henry, telling him to return to the old studio because he wants to show him something. Henry visits Joey Drew in his apartment, where Joey regretfully states to his old friend that his success in the studio had starved him, which resulted in their separate ways. He tells Henry that while he made a happy family and live a happy life while he himself had a 'crooked empire' and because of his wrongdoings, he lost everything.
Joey then states to Henry that he is always good at pushing him to do the right thing but could have done it a little harder. Just like in the beginning, Joey tells his friend to come to the old studio as there is something he wants him to see.
Death and legacy
Sometime in 1971, Joey Drew passed away from natural causes. One of Joey's old friends, Nathan Arch Sr then bought the studio to continue his legacy. Under Nathan's leadership, the Bendy show continued on, in which the employees of Archgate Films continue to produce more Bendy cartoons.
Characteristics
Physical appearance
"Look pal, if you think I'm doing my job AND yours, I'm outta here!" - Wally Franks
Personality
"Look pal, if you think I'm doing my job AND yours, I'm outta here!" - Wally Franks
Behind the Scenes
"Look pal, if you think I'm doing my job AND yours, I'm outta here!" - Wally Franks
Appearances
"Look pal, if you think I'm doing my job AND yours, I'm outta here!" - Wally Franks
References
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- Characters (novel continuity)
- Characters in Bendy: Dreams Come to Life
- Characters in Bendy: The Lost Ones
- Characters in Bendy: The Illusion Of Living
- Characters in Bendy: Fade to Black