No Moose Is Good Moose

Yes, I've been rewatching Arthur, lately. I started watching it way back when it first came out, and now, post-college, I can still watch and enjoy it. That's the sign of a good kids' programme, in my opinion (plus, nostalgia probably has something to do with it).

In my revisiting, I made something of a discovery in George Lundgren. Formerly a minor background character, the writers really fleshed him out in later seasons; George is a shy, painfully awkward kid with dyslexia. He's artistic, frequently bullied, and often retreats behind a separate character persona (in this case, his ventriloquist's dummy), because he is so lacking in self-confidence that he doesn't think people will like him for who he is. As such, when he does manage to make a friend, he has a real problem with saying 'no', which makes him very easy to take advantage of. Additionally, he is further isolated from his peers by his frequent nosebleeds, which gross everyone out.

. . . That is downright UNCANNY. I mean, George is basically ME back in lower and middle school, right down to the nosebleeds (I had surgery to help with that, later on). I've since become a much more social and confident person, but crikey . . . I really wish I'd been able to watch a character like this when I was growing up.

So yes, I felt George deserved some art. Also, I realise that Wally, his dummy, isn't quite THAT big, but it was supposed to be sort of symbolic of how the puppet character tends to overshadow and upstage him. Just a quick colourjob for this, because it's late and I am smeepy.

Blah. I go to bed, now.

pencil, photoshop

George Lundgren belongs to Marc Brown and Cookie Jar Entertainment. Wally does, too, but they're kind of one in the same, right? At least in the way Jekyll and Hyde are . . .