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Anonymous Sinner · 1y
ummmmm I'm not sure if you've talked about this before but does rhett have a dream car? He seems like he'd have one but would be very coy about it.
Anonymous Sinner · 1y
What artist(s) have inspired your style the most?
i've always struggled with this question because it's hard for me to see others' influence in my own style. i only within the past couple of years realized how much i think Sherlock Hound influenced the way i draw furry characters. and i really like that style, sometimes i think i should more deliberately try to study it.
other than that i'm not sure. i don't study others' work a whole lot. i was really influenced by 22mg and "Silverdeni" (idk what they go by now) and Kay Fedewa as a kid just learning to draw, but those are ancient influences.
Anonymous Sinner · 1y
Do you have inspirations based on movies?
Anonymous Sinner · 1y
What drew you most to choose Collegevile, IN for your comic?
so, first off the whole reason for "Collegeville" is Chopper. the Chopper mask is a Ben Cooper mask/costume from 1973 (i can't attach pictures here but search "Ben Cooper Battling Bunny" and you should see an Ebay listing pic). i bought one from Etsy in 2019 i think. i was really into vintage Halloweeny kitsch at the time and wanted to have a mask, that one just called out to me.
Chopper became a character before my fictional town of Collegeville was a thing. i don't think it was until i adopted Mary's design and resurrected Kilroy that i started connecting dots and thinking about where these characters could live. i kept thinking about Ben Cooper/Collegeville (two different mask/costume making companies from that era, they filled the same niche though) and how all the characters are connected to Chopper and i thought it would be fun to have them live in the town where the masks are made, that would make it all the more strange that Chopper was there. i ditched that idea later down the line but i still liked the ring of a town called Collegeville. i found out the Collegeville costume company was located in Collegeville, PA, but i looked at the place and it just didn't feel right. so i searched up other Collegevilles in the US. i wanted to keep it in the midwest, since write what you know and all that, and after poking around Collegeville, IN i just thought this is it. i've been there 3 times since and idk, i just love it there. it felt right! felt close enough to places i've been to in my home state of Ohio without actually being located there too.
Anonymous Sinner · 1y
What inspired Rhett to open up the Zebulon in the first place?
nothing. it was his dad's bar and when his dad passed (he died kind of early, in his 50s) it was passed on to him. around the time his dad passed, his brothers were already in their careers/in training for their careers and Rhett was just kind of aimlessly wandering, recovering from a breakup, already working at the bar part time. he had nothing else going for him.
i think running The Zebulon ended up being a good fit for him but who knows what he would have done w his life had that not kind of been forced upon him.