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Chamomile Comic Trivia #26
#135 - Closed
The server here is my coffee day girl, a one-off pin-up character (technically a two-off one), swirls and all!
The pod she’s working in is named “It’s Bean” which is a joke only for me really. Back in high school I made a comedic RPG Maker game and - not even as a joke, I just liked the song that much, the main overworld theme was One Week by Barenaked Ladies. Not even a tacky midi version as was the style at the time, just straight up the MP3. The epilogue scene where you return to the main town after beating the final boss played an acoustic version I downloaded, I took it quite seriously. So it became a sort of mini meme among my immediate friendship group after someone was like “god the music makes me laugh every time, I’ll be listening to a befitting Gerudo Valley midi while exploring the desert area or a pleasant Koopa Troopa Beach midi while exploring the seaside area and then you go back to the main town and out of nowhere “IT’S BEEN-””.
Cammie vacantly shlooourping the coffee at the end after being in severe pain beforehand - and the imagined circumstances that bridged the time between the last panel of the coffee pod scene and the first panel of the music shop scene - are one of my fave daft visual gags from over the years.
#136 - Dinner
Time to come up with Cammie’s family, what fun! There’s always the temptation to go ironic and have them be utterly unlike her, but she’s such a beacon of positivity I just didn’t want to betray those vibes, so they’re all pretty much as full of energy or kindness as she is. Naturally the joke is that Cammie is more interested in a dog than a relationship, but the fact that she’s uninterested in a relationship is still true to her character, not just for joking’s sake.
The general plot here was just that I wanted to do an extended christmas scene that would hopefully evoke all the cosy vibes I associate with christmas from my own family’s ones over my life.
#137 - Family
And here we see Cammie’s brothers! There’s nothing concretely referencial here in particular but I definitely channeled memories of growing up with my own older brother and younger sister coming up with the wholesome flashbacks. I did design everyone’s adult appearance beyond just Riley and then designed their younger selves, but unfortunately Hubert and Jay still haven’t shown up beyond these flashbacks so not for this trivia, alas!
Hubert has an Orange Squish (mentioned plenty of times in Cammie Comic trivia at this point I’m sure) soda brand pencil case, like those old 7up ones. Do they still make those? They probably did ones in other brands too but I had a 7up one.
#138 - Merry
Not too much to say here, naturally Cammie’s mum takes more cues from Cammie for her design, but Cammie got her curls from Dad! Designing family members is fun, lol.
No big meaning behind anyone’s names, just chose ones I liked really that all kinda tied in with the idea of “is it easy enough to believe these people would name their child Chamomile?” lol.
#139 - While
ONE of Cammie’s family members at least had to share her trademark forehead hair swirlies, they’re cartoon characters, c’mon! Riley here has a more subtle version of them. Probably the only thing subtle about him.
Just a few more drips and drabs of poor Bri’s slightly turbulent childhood here, just to flesh out her and Cammie’s early relationship a bit.
Boy the speech bubbles sure are crowding everything on this one huh? One of my bad habits with comicing that I’m trying to be more conscious of these days. But it’s one way to make the Christmas special cosy!
#140 - Wonderful
If I was doing cosy family christmas comics I had to take the opportunity to draw a big ol’ spread of roast dinner. Like me and any self-respecting person they have a mountain of roast potatoes, the best roast dinner food.
Grumpy Cammie is another favourite Cammie I have ever drawn.
It’s a tired old joke but, including in the previous one where it was highlighted, 12-going-on-13-year-old Cammie’s niece Jody has already entered her teenage mono-syllabic phase, with her only dialogue in the whole arc being non-verbal noises.
#141 - Desserts
A little more development for Brianna here, because I wanted to explain how someone who doesn’t seem like the sort to actively pursue such responsibility might end up running their own business. And then another “don’t let Cammie near fire” joke of course.
The sitting room area here was (lazily, but you don’t know that), based on the layout of the sitting room at my Mum’s house back when I was in Uni, felt like the obvious choice since I associate christmasses there with the first time my partner Molly joined us.
The post-foods “just hanging out” christmas mood was an important time for me to cover as well - adults watching TV and chatting while children do things with stuff they got sort of in the vicinity. Jody is eating a Terry’s Chocolate Orange to complete the experience, naturally! (It’s not Terry’s though, it’s Dawn French’s Jody’s.)
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