More lonely and moody art, featuring underutilized Border Collie guy Mick.

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Mick actually has a little bit of characterization, although I haven't done much with him in close to a decade, with 2016 seeming to be the year I drew him the most.

A shy and quiet and somewhat gloomy guy, Mick is a newcomer to the town of Hartford, and his whole story/character progression is tied into him making friends and participating in the city's music scene, with his two closest friends being the wolf girl Camilla and the punk raccoon Reed. He rents a cheap basement apartment somewhere in town and spends most of his free time alone listening to music or practicing guitar, and like many young guys, has dreams of being a rock star while making ends meet working some generic dead-end retail job just to have somewhere dry to starve.

He met Camilla when she was running the register at Bennetton's Pizza, and has become a bit of a regular there, usually stopping in on Thursday evening after getting paid so he can get a couple pizzas and the leftovers can feed him for a couple days. Eventually, he and Camilla hit it off and start visiting some of the bars in town that have live bands and the like, and that's how he starts to come out of his shell a bit, meeting Reed and some of the other characters in the punk, rock, and/or bar scene. As a result, it's likely Mick has also met some of my more prominent characters like Buck Donner and the Reynard Twins, although I've always wanted Mick to be part of his own circle of outcasts including Reed, Camilla, Casey, Tiffany, and possibly Ash.

(As time goes on, I find it works quite well to build a group of characters off each other, with one sorta becoming the "anchor" for the development of others, sorta like what unexpectedly happened with Nico Reynard. Mick always felt like a good anchor character for his friend group because of how quiet he is, it would give me a great excuse to have other characters put themselves out there more when interacting with him.)

As for the lack of a surname... I just haven't picked one for him yet, and it's possible I never will, with his quiet and reserved nature meaning he's just never told anyone he talks to his full name and he pays for everything in cash so nobody has ever seen his credit or debit card. Like myself, I doubt he uses any sort of social media, so he doesn't have any sort of Facebook page to comb for personal details. It probably sounds like I'm setting him up for some sort of mysterious past, but I think it's more interesting if he's just some normal but very reserved dude, and getting to know him in-depth is sort of a sign of intimate trust for a select few close friends.

In fact, I'm not even sure why I called him "Mick" in the first place, one might expect I wanted to draw some sort of connection to Rolling Stones' Mick Jagger but that wasn't actually intentional. Possibly subconscious, but not something I actively set out to do.