Salondra Danekouf asks:
Hey I was wondering what ideas and what creation process it took to create POLYCHROME and STARFISH?
Dan says:
Polychrome was partly inspired by the L.Frank Baum character from the Oz books - Polychrome, the Rainbow's daughter - but mostly she began as a creature that was both angel and ghost - meant to be a contrast to some of the more violent or aggressive characters in the stories. she's kind of evolved as this cool big sister.
Starfish began as a pin-up I did in the early 90's - I wanted to do a 50's style girly pin-up, but my idea was to use an alien babe or a kind of updated mermaid - so I painted this fishgirl relaxing under the waves, with a ray gun strapped to her hip. I really liked the piece and it grew on me more and more - so when I came up with the concept of the Nocturnals, I knew I wanted her in there. Id given her a starfish tatoo and her hair was full of them, so naturally, I called her Starfish.
does that help?
db
E-mail Dan with any queries you have. Thanks.
HERE ARE the bios of the Nocturnals characters from the Dark Forever comic in 2002. They'll be getting their own homepages at some point too. Komodo is also given at the bottom although he is absent from The Dark Forever.
KOMODO: