Again in 2002, within the Satan Might Cry 2 concern of Recreation Informer journal (which you’ll be able to learn proper right here at no cost in case you have an account on our web site), we featured a bit of Invader Zim fan artwork within the Envelope Artwork part. We declared it the October winner and confusingly wrote, “Deformed goth chicks are cool!” as its caption. Not too long ago, Bluesky person @drewchuck.bsky.social, whereas wanting by way of Video Recreation Historical past Basis’s spectacular archive of online game magazines, seen the artwork was attributed to Rebecca Sugar. Rebecca Sugar isn’t a standard identify, however we suspected it’d simply be a coincidence, so we reached out to substantiate if it was them.
“Sure I did draw this,” Sugar advised us over e-mail. “I should have been 15.” Again in 2002, Rebecca Sugar was a gifted teenage artist, however at this time they’re identified primarily because the creator of Cartoon Community’s Steven Universe. You may also discover their music in Katamari Damacy creator Keita Takahashi’s newest sport, To a T.
“Sure I bear in mind!” Sugar wrote. “I used to be happy with it. However on the time I felt responsible successful with fan artwork. I felt I ought to have despatched one thing unique. I had loads of unique characters again then. I used to be additionally confused by the caption.”
Sugar was disenchanted that considered one of their first technically revealed works was fan artwork, however was nonetheless happy with the achievement. “I remembered that I’d received for Zim fan artwork, however I forgot about all the opposite characters across the border,” Sugar wrote. “I used to be studying a number of impartial comics at that age, and drawing my very own. Jhonen’s comics had been my favourite. Johnny the Homicidal Maniac and Squee in fact, and particularly I Really feel Sick. Seeing Devi drawings on there makes me nostalgic.”
Regardless of discovering their very own success with work on Journey Time and creating Steven Universe, Sugar remains to be an Invader Zim fan. “Sure, I wrote the ahead to the Invader Zim artwork e book just a few years in the past. I didn’t point out this drawing in fact. However they know I used to be, and am, an enormous fan.”
The Video Recreation Historical past Basis’s Bluesky account factors out that after that first point out within the journal in 2002, Sugar would come up once more 15 years later as a part of a preview for the RPG, Steven Universe: Save the Gentle (written by yours really after taking part in it at E3).
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