New Character: Conrad, the robot
Today, while I was on the first leg of my flight to Austin for SXSW, I came up with a new character: Conrad, the robot. He's the unreliable, reluctant servant bot built by Bosh. He only works because of Bosh's ability to animate inanimate objects, so he's not technically a proper robot. Bosh has no idea how electronics work. Bosh simply built Conrad from pieces of metal and junk during WWI and then modified him during WWII in Britain. Conrad only really bothers to serve Bosh out of fear that Bosh will abandon him and outside of Bosh's presence he will eventually revert to an inanimate metal sculpture. His eyes are newer replacement traffic lights (one is red and the other is green). Bosh scratched plus and minus signs on the eyes, because he thought it looked cool. His main wheel is a motorcycle wheel. He has two training wheels from a bike.
This character is loosely based on my British friend Conrad Quilty-Harper, aka Coneee, who was one of the many people who retweeted the Bosh & Bill launch announcement post and thereby locked a mention or character to be based upon him in the comic. I'll get to all the rest of you eventually (and if any new visitors want to join in, I'll keep adding characters / mentions). Sorry I did Conrad first, but I've known him for a while, was roomies with him in Santa Monica for a while, and just thought a British reluctant-to-work robot who complains about things is a perfect fit for him. ;-)
To see a much larger version of the sketch included with this post (drawn in my Moleskine notebook with my Faber-Castell TK-FINE VARIO L 0.7 Mechanical Pencil) click on through to the permalink.
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