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Let’s examine this once more, with feeling.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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I’m sure a few of us can relate to this piece, but if you’ve been following her sketch posts on Patreon<\/a>, you might have already figured out today’s guest: the crafty, funny, magical Megan Brennan!<\/a><\/strong> Megan’s written a whole bunch of Amazing World of Gumball<\/em> graphic novels, contributed to a billion anthologies, hosted one half of my favorite Animorphs podcast<\/a>, and<\/em> has a very fun book forthcoming from Random House Graphic that we’ll talk about a little later. Let’s get into it!

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Good morning, Megan! Today I\u2019m pretending to be in one of those <\/strong>Sailor Moon<\/em><\/strong>-themed fan cafes. Please join me over a cute parfait.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

OF COURSE!!!!!! Life goals = using a spoon to break apart ice cream shaped like Luna\u2019s head.

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Let\u2019s imagine for a moment, for the sake of our readers at home, that this character does not strike a chord with my very bones. What am I looking at here?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

HOW COULD YOU!!! It\u2019s Chibi-moon, or possibly as I knew her then: Rini, from Sailor Moon<\/em>. She\u2019s Usagi\u2019s daughter from the fuuuuture who gets sent back in time to hang out with a bunch of teens and be horrible and then be overly cute. Anyway I drew her as a teen here, probably because I wished she got a sequel series of her being Sailor Moon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I was mentally trying to articulate why I liked this specific character so much (I couldn\u2019t find other fanart from this time, but found TWO Chibi-moon drawings), and I think mainly I felt obligated to pick a designated fave because of all those anime shrines online. (for uh, people who didn\u2019t grow up feral on the internet in 2001, people made little fan websites dedicated to their fave characters, full of lovingly-crafted gifs and info etc etc. we didn\u2019t have streaming anime, so I found out abt a lot of anime through fan sites without having ever watched the show)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anyway, people loved to hate on Chibi-moon then because she was annoying. Which is fair, especially with her English dub voice, in my opinion. BUT that online-joking hate that just made me like her more, in a \u201ci wanna root for the underdog!\u201d kind of way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Plus I was mainly a Sailor Moon<\/em> comic reader, and she has an interesting arc in the comic: she starts out as this freak who can\u2019t grow up (literally) and has no friends. She goes back in time to basically try to save her mom, by stealing a magic crystal, typical Sailor Moon<\/em> stuff! She kind of inserts herself into Usagi\u2019s life and won\u2019t explain what she\u2019s doing, and it goes…badly. Eventually, she turns evil out of jealousy over…basically everything Usagi has. But after having this bad-girl makeover moment as Wicked Lady (which I LIVED for), she realizes that she has all these people who love her, and has to protect them, and that gives her power. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I always felt kind of like a weird dork as a kid secretly reading manga, and weirdly this overly cute character had some of the same energy. Plus the power fantasy of punishing people who you felt like didn\u2019t appreciate you? And acknowledgement of dark\/resentful feelings towards other people, when as a girl you\u2019re socialized to kind of Be Nice?? There\u2019s a lot going on there for tween me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anyway I wanted her to be a cool teen because I wanted to be a cool teen. THANKS FOR COMING TO MY CHIBI-MOON TED TALK.

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MORE CHIBI-MOON!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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I love to see grid paper represented in childhood art. About how old were you when you made this? Was it sandwiched between homework assignments, or did you have notebooks for drawing?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was in a sketchbook! It\u2019s hard to see in the photo, but I had this sketchbook I must have gotten at? Borders? Or something, that had lavender grid paper inside –  I don\u2019t remember if I picked the grid paper for a reason, I might have, given that I do have some comics in the same sketchbook! I think I mostly picked it for the floral pastel stuff on the cover. I think a little prior to this sketchbook (around? 6th grade?) I usually just drew on printer paper. But absolutely had doodles in all my notebooks also.

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You were also kind enough to share some drawings of \u201coriginal characters,\u201d a concept which we have not yet plumbed here at the Fanart Emporium. Were you telling a lot of stories around this time? Do you remember what they were about? What was inspiring you?<\/strong>

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