Randy is a minion who works for the evil super-villain Professor Blackheart, but he doesn't like his job- he's small, very easily frightened and intimidated, mostly defenseless, and shy and self-conscious to a fault.

Starting in 2010, I began experimenting with loosening up my style and letting my imagination run more freely and satisfying hitherto underindulged creative urges. The result is the TV-cartoon-in-progress project The Adventures of an Evil Minion, starring Randy here.

While there have been many, many sympathetic villains and perhaps even more sympathetic minions, none so far- as far as I know- are entirely from the perspective from one of the lowly, more jittery minions.

So Randy frequently unwittingly plays a large role in the conflicts between Professor Blackheart and the anti-hero Dark McPlaidshirt, getting into fantastic and sometimes absurd misadventures and causing Blackheart to fail- and yet he stays largely beneath the radar, providing the perspective of the lower ranks of a powerful criminal organization.

So it's kind of like one big Lower Deck Episode. With a Villain Protagonist who happens to be a Minion with an F in Evil.

Randy is inspired by a number of lesser-known minor bad guy characters, all of which I can relate to since I'm shy and nervous around most people- especially dominating authority figures. In particular, there's Nuka from The Lion King 2: Simba's Pride, the skinny, slobbery big bad wolf from Happily N'Ever After, and Creeper from Disney's The Black Cauldron.

The online comic Norm & Cory also has rat characters in it, and they directly influenced Randy's design, right down to the thimble helmet.

Randy basically represents that feeling of insignificance, inferiority, insecurity, helplessness and fear that less assertive types like myself often get.

My brother Ian has more of a knack for imitating more refined cartooning styles and drawing teh fanarts, so there's a lot more of his drawings here. But my specialty is drawing original characters of the crazy-looking sort, floating somewhere in between Avery, Clampett, and Bluth.

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