Classic Characters

A bunch of my more prominant cartoon characters. There are a few missing, but ah well. You don't know em so you can't miss em. XP

*The Germs. Looking a bit weird here- it was probably one of my first attempts at drawing them with pupils. Not much to add; if you've been following any of my older stuff then you know that the Germs are a race of hovering green monsters that do nothing but eat and destroy. The Circle Warriors they're fighting are essentially the same thing, but they were created seperately by a friend (convergent cartoon evolution).

*Frank the Mutant Goldfish was one of my later and more "successful" characters; Frank had his own (short lived) webcomic which was really well recieved. Frank was born larger and meaner than his bretheren and spent most of his childhood in a petstore, crammed into a fishbowl several sizes too small and displayed as a "Yellow Shark". Frank is gruff, irritable, and lazy- he spends most of his time lounging around, watching TV or eating his tankmates. He dislikes people, as he believes them to be racist. According to him, humans discriminate against fish and unfairly favor cats and dogs. Thus, he has a bad habit of hanging out of his bowl and shouting insults at random strangers.

*Frenchy Mc French French is more of a running gag than an actual character, since he rarely shows up in drawings or comics. He is a parody of French stereotypes and can only say things like "er-her-hur-hur!" with a heavy accent. He has extravagant hair and wears a stripe'd shirt. He eats only foods that have the word "French" in their name and can communicate with chickens. He is as cowardly as he is confusing. I think the main reason I never used him much was because I felt viewers wouldn't get the joke and would just accuse me of making fun of the French. >>

*Larva-Man was another running-gag type character. In 7th grade I randomly received the nickname Larva, and it became a sort of weird in-joke that I was secretly a disgusting, Zerg-like alien that preyed on unsuspecting freshman. The character sort've developed from there into this egocentric worm from outter space who is not-too-secretly planning to take over the world. Basically Invader Zim, minus the robot and plus acidic drool.

*Blorgs are a fictional species of Martian fauna that I've been drawing for... a really long time. They're completely defenseless herd animals and nature pretty much hates them- just about every other creature on the planet is specifically specialized to kill and eat them. These drawings were meant for a sort of sitcom spoof kind of setting- this Blorg was going to be one that LarvaMan kept as a domestic pet.

*The Plant was a character I made up on-the-spot for said sitcomish thing. It was just some creepy potted plant hanging in the *wherever they'd live* that'd been there as long as they'd remembered, but no one knew who put it there or why. It just sits there, watching people and and attracting flies.

*The Goobler Hunter was actually a creation of one of my friends, but since he was more of a boredom-induced doodle than a trademark character I kind of adopted him. He's a man... or a monster... or something. But he's a crazy old hunter who thinks he's a pilgrim, and he runs around with a musket chasing "The Goobler", a cryptid devil-turkey that no one else thinks is real. He has a Coyote/Roadrunner relationship with it, chasing and chasing, but never catching.

*Man of War is a jellyfish mercenary that I created as a rival for Frank. He is an evil genius with a Spanish accent and a giant arsenal of weapons. Disregard the size stat for him, it's way too big. Anyway, Man of War isn't any better at taking over the world than any other typical supervillain, but he generally has greater success at "problem solving" than Frank does and gloats about it constantly. His greatest achievement was when he successfully smuggled nuclear weapons into the Pacific and used them to blow up Bikini Bottom.

*The Nightmare Chameleon is another running-joke type guy. I did this really god-awful painting of a chameleon in middle school that was, unintentionally, very morbid. It was all kinds of odd, mis-matching colors, with a cloudy black background that looked like some kind of shadowy abyss. The stripes on it's throat looked like some kind of horrific wounds, and since it's claws were red, my friends and I always joked that he'd done it to himself. From then on we referred to the ruined painting as the Nightmare Chameleon, and whenever one of my art assignments turned out bad we'd blame it on him, as the God of Bad Art. He could sneak into any art-related thing (be it artwork or the medium used to make it) and corrupt it. He could ruin anything, except for "modern art"...

*Cornbread Bob. The man, the myth, the monstrous mofo with the rainbow afro. Cornbread Bob was spawned when I was playing video games at a friend's house. He wanted me to make a character for this wrestling game, and I decided that I'd just make him the craziest, most random looking guy I could. The result was a 7' maniac with a hockey mask, rainbow afro, elf shoes, green camo suit and hooks for hands. He entered the arena by riding on a motorcycle, which he could drive pretty damn well for a guy with no hands. I sucked at the game so Bob didn't get much use, but he and Goku did have an epic battle with Michael Jackson.