From cowboypunk! Feel free to ask more in comments, I can talk a lot about this kind of subjects. And I'll leave you 5 questions to answer yourself if you say "kidneys" in your comment.

1. Tell me about your Devon :O!!
Devon is the guy on the right here, the one going "woo!" He is really fun to write but so is Nevan, his brother. The thing about twins is that everyone tends to assume they are the same, even more if they are conjoined. But back when I was considering the possibility of writing Nevan and Devon I was thinking "how would I feel if I had a family member I could literally never get away from?" My first thought was that I'd feel really miserable. My second thought was less mature - if that family member was someone in charge and looking after me and not mean then I'd feel pretty comfortable. That second thought is basically Devon. He's okay with his situation because if anything goes wrong Nevan will fix it and he'll always be there to fix it.

If you're guessing that Nevan is not comfortable with it all then you're right. Sometimes the only way to make a person grow up is to let them make their own mistakes and feel the consequences. It's hard to do if you're emotionally invested and almost impossible if every mistake will affect you as well.

The weird thing is that I came up with Nevan and Devon when I was discussing a character with multiple personalities and a remark was made that it's like two people sharing the same body (not always quite like that but anyway). I thought that it was not unheard of and after a night or two of research Nevan and Devon came to life.

It'll be a while before the brothers appear in the comic but I can tell you some of their backstory. They had a rough childhood - earliest part of it was spent being hushed up and going outside only in early morning or late at night and when their parents decided they couldn't handle it Nevan and Devon got institutionalised. Once you're in the system it's very hard to get out if you have no support but they (or strictly speaking Nevan) managed to do it and found their aunt who was okay with letting them stay at her place for an undefined time. It wasn't quite a happy ending though because the aunt recently lost her husband and started trying to get through it with daily doses of whiskey and Nevan found it impossible to get any job - considering that even if you get to the interview stage you are going to that interview stuck with your goofy immature brother. So at the time we first see them in the comic they are living in a very unstable situation, making late night trips to get groceries and Nevan is getting more and more depressed.

This was supposed to be about Devon but Devon is more or less fine with everything. Except if would be cool to have more money because then they could get a big telly! How cool is that, a big telly!

2. Who are the three topmost inspirational artists for you? (or, if you prefer a more general version, topmost inspiring people period)
It's hard for me to answer this because I can think of tons of amazing people but when I hear "inspiring" I instantly think "inspiration porn" and feel a bit sick. I like a lot of artists and writers - I grew out of wishing to be like someone a while ago but I see something I can learn from in a lot of people. So I'm just going to give a few random examples.

• Art: I learn a lot from Pixar though it's a very broad definition because "Pixar" is a lot of individual artists (I buy "art of" books, I have a few favourite ones). I also learned a lot from Franco-Belgian comics (Asterix, Spirou, Blacksad) and American comics though I prefer lesser known artists rather than Marvel and DC stuff that comes to mind when you say "American comics". There is a lot of artist online whose work I enjoy but I don't feel comfortable naming any because I can't name them all and don't want to leave people out.

• Writing: I learn a lot from British series. My three top favourite writers are Russell T. Davies, John Finnemore and Steven Moffat (yeah, controversial). The thing I like about Russell T. Davies's writing is his ability to be moral without being moralising, John Finnemore is very funny without being slapstick or pointlessly cruel and Steven Moffat is usually surprising. I wouldn't want to be them but I would like to be more like them.
  (I recently discovered Adam Hills and his humour is very similar to how I see Cop Story humour but I was not aware of his existence a month ago so he gets a separate mention.)

• People whose personalities really affected me at one point or another: John Nash, Stephen Hawking (mum got me his book when I was a teenager), the entire Everett family (I'm referring to the scientist Hugh Everett and his children) and my step-father.

There's loads more, sometimes people fitting into two categories at once. I also feel the need to mention a BBC show called Life on Mars - I can't single out any person responsible for its creation but this show certainly influenced the person I am today.

3. What is the most absurd dream you remember having?
Not sure, I sometimes get really cool dreams, sometimes really awkward but mundane dreams and a few recurring nightmares that won't make sense to most people. Besides I consider any dream I can base a story on worth it so I don't feel really bad about those scary dreams of not being able to move - it's only fair after writing Quinton.

Okay, I'll tell you one scientifically impossible dream I had around the end of high school. I dreamed about my parents working (as programmers which they are) in some shady scientific research facility developing artificial intelligence and stuff like that. It was future in the dream but I was younger, 10-12 years old I think. One of experiments involved using a man in a coma as a test subject. When they weren't working with him they kept him locked up in a closet of sorts and I was just hanging around after school. And one day I came in that room when no one was there and opened that closet. And the man in a coma blinked at me. I freaked out but then I kept coming there when no adults were about and he slowly started coming out of his coma and we became friends. The most scientifically impossible bit was that nobody working with him noticed anything - the man didn't want anyone besides me to know he was self-aware but you can't exactly pretend to be in a coma in front of a bunch of medical professionals day after day.

I sort of want to do something with that story but like I said, it's impossible even in a sci-fi setting.

4. What are your favorite kinds of movies (or books if you dig those more)?
That's easy - crime drama (both movies and books). I find that this genre lets one think a lot - often about what it means to be alive and be human and what is your idea of right or wrong. At least when it's written well, when it's written sloppily it's pretty moronic. But I'll probably stop talking about it now because I can do it for ages and this journal is already long (if you're still reading at this point you get a banana sticker).

5. If you were a disease, what disease do you think you would be?
Huh, that's an unusual question. If I were a mental illness I guess I'd be schizophrenia, pretty sure about that. If we're talking about physical ailments, gosh, I don't know, probably some kind of neurological damage (CP or epilepsy or spinal cord damage or something) but I suppose I think that because I researched it a lot. (That and I guess everyone answering this question picks diseases that get discussed a lot, nobody is like "if I were a disease I'd be testicle cancer, yeah!!")