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The idea for the Blonde Marvel began in 2003.
I had just finished an all expense paid tour of Iraq thanks to President George Bush and had met (through the magic of Internet) a mysterious fella named Yak the Ripper. Yak and I shared an affinity for drawing large, healthy, voluptuous ladies, reading ancient big bosom magazines like Gent and Fling, and making weirdo comics that 98% of the population probably won't like. Yak had the idea of doing a website devoted to comix about big
sexy women. It would be called Juguptous.
And so I had to come up with some comix for Juguptous. I decided, after a few failed tries, to simply create one character and devote most of my creative energies to that one character. So, to meet my obligations to the new website, I created the Blonde Marvel.
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Long story short? Juguptous the website never happened. Probably for the best. In 2004 I started a website of my own called Topheavy Ink and began running the first Blonde Marvel webcomic. It was God Awful and I hope no one remembers having read it.
Mercifully I had to stop running the webcomic because President Bush sent me on yet another all expense paid tour of Iraq. While in the desert I sketched a new, sexier costume for the Blonde Marvel. I got the idea that it was probably unlawful for anyone to fight crime dressed in Our Nation's Flag.
But Yak said the costume looked "supervillain-ish" and over time I came to agree. Besides, in that get-up her boobs likely would have popped out at an inopportune moment. |
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I came up with a more plausible uniform and started running another Blonde Marvel story called "The Coffee Shop Incident." Rather than start off with a multi-chapter saga rife with supervillains and the fate of the world at stake, "The Coffee Shop Incident" was meant to be a short, humorous teaser.
Astute reader's of Yak the Ripper's webcomic Superb Villain will recognize the bad guys as Superb and Dr. Dunn. Always up to no good, those two.
As you may know by now, Blonde Marvel is somewhat different than your typical webcomic heroine. She's older, married, a mother of two, she smokes, swears and she's what you might call, um, plus sized.
And while most superheroes start out as teenagers or in their twenties, Blonde Marvel got her powers at age 35, less than a year ago. So I get to explore the awkwardness of having to start a superhero career just as most superheroes are winding down their own.
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Originally I wanted her married to another superhero, Captain Atlas. But after thinking about it, I decided her being married to a regular guy provided more drama.
The art? Well, when I started the first Blonde Marvel comic back in 04, I was pretty sure I could get away with my less-than-professional brand of artwork. At the time, most of the webcomics I knew of were equally bad, or worse, or they started out bad and somewhat improved. Many were very good but not good enough for "publication". However, to be honest, the overwhelming majority were drawn so bad as to be embarrassing.
At the time, most professional grade cartoonists looked upon PRINT as the Holy Grail and felt webcomics were beneath them. Which was alright by me.
Unfortunately (for me) a lot of good artists started to get into the webcomic thing. Browse the Drunk Duck website, for example, and you'll see dozens of well drawn webcomics. Dozens! It's getting so that people are now starting to expect a webcomic to be well written and well drawn. Jesus. And here I am drawing just as amateurishly as I did years ago. Sorry.
So yeah, that's pretty much the Blonde Marvel story in a long drawn out nutshell.
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