Do the Lance and Eskimo characters have real life counterparts?
Yes and no. Way back in 1997 or so when the titular (hee) pair was born, Lance was supposed to represent me and Eskimo, my best friend Alison Blackwell (a much more skilled comic artist). Almost immediately, they started taking on lives of their own, and now any resemblance is purely coincidental. Paul the bartender “is” my brother Paul in sort of the same way, only less so. Chefelf is this guy.