"Questo's World" ™
Daily comic no. 48
"A Streetcar Named Candy"
By Mike Lewis
12-01-22
© December 2022
Founded on September of 2021, operated by the eccentric, self-taught artist Mike Lewis, where experimenting with every medium, from animation, comics, illustration and painting, are welcome, while still bridging the line between fine art and commercial art.
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The first drawing of Mickey Houndfair!
The first ever drawing of one my favorite characters to write for in Questo's World, Mickey Houndfair Jr., then known as Mickey Goldstein, because he's a Golden-Retriever. His name Mickey was inspired by eateries I either visited or observed with names like Rickey's, Nicky's or Dickey's. I was looking for a name that sounded friendly to add more irony to the concept of his character, Mickey came to mind.
Early on, his character was actually supposed to be loyal, but later, I decided it would be stronger and deciably more interesting to be the total opposite of the loyalty generally found in canines to go along with the satirical commentary and humor of the Questo's World concept. I was under the impression that not many people understood his character. It was also better that his character was more of an anti-hero rather than a straight up antagonist, (same thing with Ms. Amor) making it less one-sided. I like Mickey because of the backstories revolving around his father, Mickey Houndfair Sr.
His character definitely took some time to get to where he is today. Let me know what are your thoughts are on Mickey Houndfair. Any questions are welcome too!
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Incidental characters of Questo's World
Love drawing these characters. A trademark I developed overtime is the enhancing on the design of the characters, exaggerating certain outfits or physical appearance of them to emphasize on their personality. Some say these characters are rather strange-looking, and I can't argue with that, I like strangeness, ha-ha!!!
The female characters were the ones I had most fun designing. I always have some source of inspiration from people i know or from my love of vintage aesthetics that some of the characters' designs. For example, the redhead cat's hair was an exaggeration of hairstyles by that of Agnes Moorehead, Sandra Gould and Tina Louise. The small yellow dog was partially modeled after Julia Dreyfus. The redhead rabbit is loosely based on the bouffant hairstyle of the 1960s and a lesser known actress named Bonnie Scott. And finally, the female bear was drawn similar to another 60s icon actress, Marlo Thomas, complete with the hairstyle and the dress.
Another thing I did was giving the cat characters multiple different eye colors, not only yellow, like with Questo, but orange, green, blue, red, purple and pink, something you don't see in other mainstream cartoons.
Some have names, most of them don't.
One of them who have been named was the redhead rabbit named Millie (a nod to an old movie i watched), and the pig named Arnold Pink, a little nod (another affectionate reference to Arnold Ziffel).
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