Random Fuzz Under the Couch

Okay, so I eventually want to make this a blog about the current comic strip I have in the Vermillion called "Random Fuzz". It will feature comics, sketches, and general ideas for already published comics, as well as general production notes.

So, let's start at the very beginning.

It's a very good place to start.

Random fuzz happened, well, randomly. I was in a design 1 classroom, bored during class. I had made my 50-something sketches of a design and was waiting for the teach to come around and look at it. I had a big sketch pad in front of me and started just doodling. Out came the little fuzzy creatures that are in the comic today. The girl across from me thought they were cute and said "Put a sombrero on them!" or something like that. So I put a sombrero and maraccas on it. Voila! Instant cute weird little fuzzy things. I then put the phrase "Donde estan mis pantalones?" which translates to "Where are my pants?" then i drew another one that said "guacamole!" So, the girl laughed and I think some other people around the table did too. So I started drawing it on the black board and random boards around the studio for fun.




Then comes design 2. by this time I had just drawn them and didnt think much of it. I had no plans, no ideas for anything related to a series. So, needless to say, I was just drawing them in weird places in the studio room. I started putting them in turkey outfits, santa outfits, random weird stuff and making jokes on the chalkboard with them. The teacher would say "I'm waiting for the joke, man!" referring to the fuzzy little things I drew. Ha. So i started drawing them every class.

I finally made a huge picture and put it up on the wall towards the end of the semester. It got 'stolen' later by a friend who put it on her myspace because she thought it was funny.

So, here comes another semester or so later (probably two or three?)

I start getting an idea to do a comic series of these little guys, and it just happened that it was around that time that my friend put the picture on myspace. So, i talked to one of my friends who was the media director of the school newspaper. I made some sketches and worked on a storyline for the entire series.

Once I made the storyline or rather got ideas for it from beginning to end, I presented it to the editor and got the job as a cartoonist for the Vermillion (and photographer as well, which was a very cool bonus!)

So that's how it started. I'll blog more on ideas for the first semester of the comic, and where all of that came from, as well as production notes for them.

Until then, Vaya con Dios!