Do you think Rabish's bow is a little bit cliché as a cartoon gender differentiation characteristic?

  • nick wolfe

    Yes. Also she's pink instead of red, which is ridiculous.

    The original character design for Rabish -- a character invented by a fellow who at the time was the Little Kid Across The Street, and is now a University Graduate according to facebook -- had her with a ponytail, but I thought it would be too hard to have that visible from enough angles to tell the monsters apart, so I changed it to a bow.

    But yes, a thousand times yes, it's a little bit cliché. I also wish I had designed characters with hands (difficult to convey gestures with mitten-paws) and eyes (difficult to convey expressions with slits).

    But that was almost twenty years ago...

    So really all I can do at this point is Move On, somehow, at some point. Maybe learn to draw people.

    (Incidentally: http://nameremoved.com/comics/465/ )

  • nick wolfe