I had posted this on my Facebook page, but he needed to be uploaded here. Especially since I’m planning to do occasional cartoons with him.
Meet ViaDuck – the worlds fastest duck super-hero!
This is a very, very rough first sketch of the silly fellow. But it was done on a whim – that’s my only excuse.
He was conceived one day as I was driving home from Pasadena. The route includes going under a structure that is labeled as a “viaduct”. Because I have to play with my words, it of course led to the “duct” to “duck” linkage that everyone is familiar with. And because I was thinking comics and superheroes at that moment, I wondered what sort of superhero you could get with a duck. “AquaDuck” seemed to go nowhere, besides being redundant. But I decided to stick with ViaDuck — after all, “via” in Latin means “way”, and surely if one gave a duck super-speed, he’d be making his way to a lot of places.
Upon reaching home, I fired up the computer, opened Photoshop and did a quick sketch on the touch pad. I decided it would be more fun to use a mallard duck than the domestic white duck. When it comes to cartoons, we already had a white duck (Donald) and a black one (Daffy). So why not a teal-headed, brown-breasted mallard? And here he is.
I have no idea what he’s going to do.
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