THE PEPPER ANN FINALE CHARACTER DESIGNS

I recently did a lovely interview 

with someone planning a 

an article

celebrating next year's

anniversary of

Walt Disney's

sooper fun hit show

Pepper Ann.

We talked about early design

development and what it was like

 being the lead character designer for the series.

And one of the questions that came up was:

What was one of your favorite 

episodes to design?

THE FINALE

came right to mind,

of course.

Because after drawing the characters as tweens for many years,

I got to figure out what they looked liked

when they were older.

Here was the design list I was given:

This is just some of the designs I did from the episode

I'm not sure why I don't have a design for Milo.

 remember

Pepper Ann (27 years old)

Nicky (27 years old)

Milo (27 years old)

Mom (50 years old)

Moose (22 years old)

Aunt Janie (older)

Alec Kane (older)

 Baron von Gus (older)

Ms. Stark (older)

Ms. Bladdar (older)

Coach Doogan (older)

Mr. Finky (older)

Cissy (27 years old)

Dieter (27 years old)

Craig (28 years old)

Mr. Carter (older)

Gina (30 years old)

Gwen Mezzrow (27 years old)

Mark Hamill (older)

This background character named Natasha

was based on head writer

Nahnatchka Kahn

and designed by Sue Rose.

Pink Eye Pete (27 years old)

Principal Hickey (older)

Stuart (27 years old)

And I was really happy with this 

background character of 

Sue Rose I did:

Tessa (27 years old)

Vanessa (27 years old)

Trinket (27 years old)

What a fun show to work on.

Not every show gets to do a real finale

so it was an honor to get to finish 

Pepper Ann with such a bang.

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EARLY PEPPER ANN DESIGNS

Back before  Pepper Ann was  Disney's  Pepper Ann she was a comic strip  in YM Magazine (aka Young and Modern Magazine) (nee Young Miss Magazine)
Shockingly, the internets don't have no examples of the strip. But I can assure you that PA looked a lot like this guy:

Which isn't shocking since

Sue Rose 

created both

Fido Dido

and

Pepper Ann.

Before Disney,

Sue pitched a

Pepper Ann series to 

Nickelodeon

but they asked for for it to

NOT

look like Fido.

Enter 

Mr. Warburton!

I had been working with Sue on 

Fido Dido stuffs for a long time.

We had similar styles and 

got along sooper good.

So she asked if I'd help

figure out what a

non-Fido 

Pepper Ann 

might look like.

We all know what PA ended up looking like...

but here are some early sketches that

Sue and I kicked around:

It's so fun

looking back at 

old stuff like this!