Makeshift Man

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Roadhouse Blues - o5

DeadSquirrelJoJo

on Aug. 31, 2010

I'm really especially happy with the art on this page; it's full of really specific gestures, but I think they read clearly. :)

It's so dumb, but I was fretting for a while about whether jackalopes would be rabbits or hares. I'd initially planned for them to be very distinctly of the Lepus genus, as jackrabbits. However, I find rabbits to be much easier to draw, and that's what I found myself doing. I had seven pet rabbits when I was a kid, and so I'm very familiar with their anatomy, movements, and expressions. (Rabbits are definitely among my very favorite animals!) Anyway, this is such a silly thing that I was upset with myself for. After all, jackalopes aren't rabbits or hares; they're jackalopes. They'd be a whole separate family of lagomorphs, or at least a separate family in Leporidae (if spiritual creatures could even be counted in the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature at all.)

(JoJo has a tendency to overthink her work.)

Anyway, I also really love getting the opportunity to drop little hints about MM's past. It's a doozy of a biography he's got.