Killer Carroot has always been my uninhibited mouthpiece in the form of an obnoxious anthropomorphized carrot. But after years of KC being a solo act, I decided to give him a cast of co-conspirators to share the confines of his stip.  So because no man is an island (but if you lash a bunch of dead guys together they can make a good raft) I began to add a cast of characters to the world of Killer Carroot. 

First of those that survive to today was Little-ROOT. Little-ROOT was a knee jerk reaction I had in the early Nineties to the sudden explosion in "cutie" baby cartoons (i.e. the Muppet Babies, Tiny Toons, the Rug Rats)

Then came MonkeyBoy. Not only am I fond of calling people that I like "Monkey boy" (lifted from that cult classic Buckaroo Bonsai) I have always found anything with a monkey in it to be funny, thus he was destined to become a comic strip. Next to Killer, MonkeyBoy is my favorite. On the suggestion of a friend, I drew a quick sketch of MonkeyBoy. Even in that first sketch he wore socks. Where did the sock thing come from you ask? Basically it is because I have no idea how to draw monkey feet, and besides the whole sock and tie thing gave a weirdness to him that I really liked.

Ozwald (full name: Lee Harvey Ozwald) came about when I decided that I needed a straight man in the strip. At first he was going to be some wimpy nerdy kinda guy, but I had been sketching a cool Rasta guy that I called Oz, so I figured that even straight guys could be cool, and thus Ozwald was born. The name came from my childhood. There was a famous collage football player in the late 70's by the name of Charles White. Everyone would ask me if I was related. To this day when I introduce myself, someone always asks if I ever played football (FYI: I play HOCKEY and I hate football... maybe that's why) to which I always answer "no relation" Thus I thought it would be funny if Ozwald had to always be saying "no relation" whenever he introduced himself, and Lee Harvey Oswald was the only Oswald I could think of, thus the name... 

Constantine started off life as "Barney" (not to steal Ozwald's line but "no relation"). Barney was the name of an ex-girlfriend's pet iguana that I hated (come to think of it I didn't much like her ether but that is another story). Anyway I would draw cartoons of her stupid pet iguana. I hate to admit it, but a lot of Constantine 's personality is a swipe at the ex-girlfriend and her stupid iguana. The name change came about because of copyright issues, and the fact that my ex-wife said no to the idea of naming our son Constantine.