The Comatose Cartoonist

aforextreme asked: Was the heavy metal guy inspired by real-life experience as well?

Norm’s influenced a lot by my friend Zac Shedd who’s a pretty big metal fan. He actively helped come up with the character a bunch too. Norm regretfully doesn’t get a lot to do in the pilot but the plan is that he was intended to be the rec center’s music instructor. But the lack of interest from kids and his super narrow tastes in music made him end up being Burch’s lackey.

There was a session Norm gets to do that was in the rough draft for the pilot where he’s just drooling over the album art on the Iron Maiden vinyl prints and he’s shitting on the compression on CDs.But yeah for another time.

Also, structurally, I needed someone who would work under Burch and just work in an office, never getting involved with any of the rec activities. So naturally, I thought big, hulking metalhead who doesn’t want to be there. Yup.

Also, he’s supposed to be 24, depressing.

Thanks man for asking