Issue 2 - The Tale of the Golden Brown - page 1
The idea for this story came to me many years earlier, when I was still in high school. My sisters and I used to play a game whereby we would pick a topic and each draw a little sketch/cartoon on that subject. We would then pass it around (clockwise, for example) and then proceed to add to our neighbour's drawing. The objective of course was to make each other laugh and it rarely failed. We had a lot of fun with this game.
So one day, one of us gave the topic "a man made out of marshmallow". The three sketches were completely different: if I recall correctly, Colette's was closest to a gingerbread man (but made out of marshmallow), Lise drew this round stay-puft type character trying to pull himself out of an armchair where he was stuck and I drew what was basically the "Golden Brown" (see later in this story). I guess these images were vivid enough that I would ponder them for ten years or so before trying to incorporate them into a story.
Before I began Bubonix, my plan was for each issue to have one longer story (16 pages, say) and a couple of one-page strips at the end. When I drew this story, I planned to continue using the characters for every subsequent issue of Bubonix. By the time I finished this issue, I found the characters and the premise so juvenile and boring that I gave them up entirely. I would only return to an ongoing story with Tabasco Lang (see issue #12-18).
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