Whats with all the goofy names?
It’s one of my vices as a cartoonist silly names! Here’re some examples of my naming methods: Bud Oven When I resurrected Precocious, I felt I needed to overhaul the main character. At the time, I was working on a short story with a character named, you guessed it, Bud Oven. He was a spoiled brat who stayed in an apartment building owned by his mother. The joke was that they had to take the generic name of “Sunshine Apartments” because naming it the “Oven Apartments” was right out. A lot of short story Bud was adopted into Precocious Bud. So, no, his name has nothing to do with marijuana, dammit! I’m actually quite anti-drug use. Bette Monster Her first name is a reference to the class she teaches the first and last names of the 13 students covers all 26 letters of the alphabet! (Jacob’s last name of Linkletter is also a reference to this.) For the Monster part, I think it’s funny that the “pretty” character has such a cruel name. It’s also a nice adversarial name for one who foils the
