Comic:Drewford
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| Drewford | |
|---|---|
| Artist: | Damon Xanthopoulos |
| Writer: | |
| Characters: | Drewford, Ormlu, Roth, Che, Dominic |
| Updates: | Monday, Wednesday, Friday |
| Began: | May 1, 2006 |
| Ended: | |
| Art style: | Comic strip |
| Rating: | Web-14 |
| Website | Website |
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Plot
Drewford Duck had excelled to the top of his game in the advertising world. He was named a wunderkind in the April 2006 issue of Advert Magazine. He had an uptown loft, a hefty paycheck, and a creatively challenging job. Unfortunately, his career writing thirty-second ads for television had left him feeling like a charlatan--which, unfortunately, he was. He barged in on people's television shows and sold them an image vaguely associated with this soda, that cell phone, or these jeans. So he quit.
Unemployed, he finds that his brother, Ormlu, has clandestinely moved into his apartment. Where Drewford is focused, orderly, and leads a quite life, Ormlu likes to smoke, drink, curse, do drugs, meet boys, and party. Given the option between his super-fundamentalist parents and his brother, Ormlu made the obvious choice.
Drewford soon finds a new job with Brighter Future Discoveries, a unique technologies company that sells its products through direct response marketing--aka: infomercials. Sure, he's selling quirky products, but at least he feels secure in the fact that he's not only not barging in on someone's time, he's selling a product based on its merits and not an unrelated image.
But now, he has a lazy brother mooching off of him, no love life to speak of, and a best friend panicked that Drewford's gay brother might turn a bit...y'know.
Characters
The main cast:
| Name | Appearance | Disposition | Occupation | Relationship to Drewford | Bit o' Trivia | Quote |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Drewford Duck | Short, cowlicked, round bill. | Frantic, irritable, homebody. | Head copywriter at Brighter Future Discoveries (BFD) | N/A | admitted "fag-stag" | "That's because it's an intervention, not a potluck!" |
| Ormlu Duck | Tall, gangly, floppy hair, round bill. | Aloof, egotistical, unreasonable. | N/A | His brother. | A misogynist. | "Should I get plastic surgery? Like a bill shaving, or a foot-web enhancement?" |
| Roth Dodo | Short; chubby; bulbous, striped beak. | Socially outgoing and easily bored. | A commercial director. | His best friend. | Hates the Portuguese. | "Are you saying I'm surrounded by gays?!" |
| Greg Collins | Tall, handsome, thick eyebrows, helmet hair, flat bill. Wears sneakers with a suit. | Popular; appears fun-loving, but a bit duplicitous. | BFD's VP of Marketing. | His boss. | Mother is a duck, but father is a man. | "Duck! You old so-and-so!" |
| Cate Teal | Attractive, curly hair, glasses, flat bill. | Ambitious, professional, but flirtatious. | Associate copywriter for BFD. | His crush. | Dating a Christian Brothers' underwear model. | "Ooh! First phone call!" |
History
Drewford Duck was originally conceived in 1993, and originally named "Dopey Duck." He had quite the Amelia Bedilia-esque stupidity and had an odd appreciation (the author reacognizes it, in retrospect, as a fetish) for household appliances. Dopey had a penchant of pureeing himself with hand blenders, jerkying himself with food dehydrators, and mincing himself with Ginsu knives.
In 1999, Dopey was given an intellectual enhancement, a white collar job, a name change, and a downgrade of his fetish to an uncanny marketing skill of similar products.
About the Author
The author, Damon Xanthopoulos, spent many hours fascinated by late-night informercials in his youth, and, one year, went so far as to request a Popeil Automatic Pasta Maker for Christmas (and got it). Through the years, he has learned many tricks from televised direct response marketing and used his old character Dopey--now, Drewford--as the main character of a spoof on the campy 30-minute paid programs he loves.
Damon Xanthopoulos currently resides in the Nashville, Tennessee area, smokes too much, and is desperately single.
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