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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MEXICAN KND OPERATIVES RULE!

In case I didn't make it clear enough...

the KND operatives I met at 

Creativa Fest 2016

in Mexico City

ROCKED!

I met a ton of awesome fans: 

I got to draw in a tra-billion sketchbooks:

And on a buh-million badges:

And a crap-load of shirts

And even a couple iPads:

And I got to take pictures with 

a moonbase full of

sooper sweet

sooper kind

sooper appreciative

KND operatives:

Please note the sweet

S.C.A.M.P.P.

(Soup Can And Magnified Photon Phlazer)

that the operative on the left made.

She came dressed as 

Number Four,

dressed as

Number One from the episode

Operation CANNON.

She even had a bucket of

(fake)

clams to load the clam cannon with!

And don't even get me started on the awesome

volunteers at Creativa Fest.

All of them were

friends

family

bringers of food and drink

protectors of the realm

and

human shields.

And there was a hilarious panda aimed Brenda, too!

(front row)

This operative is

OBVIOUSLY

a 2x4 technology officer

because he builds awesome miniature animation disks

to have people sign.

He even gave me one!

I tried to get Maxwell Atoms to sign it

but he wanted to charge me two bucks.

And I don't want his autograph

THAT bad.

But if these operatives weren't already the best,

a lot of them brought me all kinds of fun stuff:

Like drawings of me:

Drawings of themselves as KND operatives:

Lots of thank you notes:

But perhaps the sweetest of the lot

was a beautiful hand-drawn book that 

longtime KND sooper operative

Anagby Sanban

and her friends made for me!

It was filled with beautiful drawings,

funny stories and

heartfelt remembrances of what KND meant to them.

I can't lie...

I got a bit teary reading this book.

(but I blamed it on the spicy chilaquiles)

Other amazing operatives brought me 

snacks and candy to keep me going through

hours of signing.

One guy even gave me a 

brand new cell phone battery charger.

But the numbuh one thing 

the Mexican operatives brought

me was their love for 

Codename: Kids Next Door.

You guys rock

beyond words.

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