He was a normal toon in the 1900s that was until the ink machine which made drawings alive and when Deekon was made two drawings were put in so he takes medicine to lock away the demon anyway skip a few years and the studio that made his cartoons shut down and many shenanigans later and almost dissolving in water he bought the old studio it was exactly how he left it and he immediately got to work cleaning the place after he had enough money he hired animators and the rest is history