Question

SexyNerd · Post by **SexyNerd** » Wed Mar 13, 2002 5:58 pm

Are the characters of the comic based on real life people? Yes i know this must be a well known thing but.. I'm new! I read every comic though...

BoxJam · Post by **BoxJam** » Thu Mar 14, 2002 7:15 am

Well, the Quebec Nordiques are based on a real-life defunct hockey team that put down a coup, staged another and took over Quebec...

some other characters kinda are, some kinda are not...

Toddandpenguin · Post by **Toddandpenguin** » Thu Mar 14, 2002 7:19 am

Hudson, (the purple thing) is based on a real person.

~dave

SexyNerd · Post by **SexyNerd** » Thu Mar 14, 2002 4:58 pm

oh k.. I get that heh.. But i m talking about the regular characters.. Mrs Boxjam, Little Boxjam, Boxjamina... I can understand the whole mallethead thing though..

Michael · Post by **Michael** » Thu Mar 14, 2002 7:58 pm

"Based on"?

...

Those <i>are</i> BoxJam and the BoxJam family.

SexyNerd · Post by **SexyNerd** » Thu Mar 14, 2002 9:29 pm

ok i know i'm coming out as ignorant.. I get all that.. I just wanted to know for sure, the family exists in real life? LOl..

TeenIdol · Post by **TeenIdol** » Fri Mar 15, 2002 7:05 am

Isn't it better, in some way, *not* knowing?

I took a communications class once (post grad--don't ask) about documentaries and movies based on real events. The "based on a true story" phenonemon was one of the many interesting things we discussed. People seem to perk up when a story really happened even when just recording it adds bias to its telling.

Mousekie · Post by **Mousekie** » Fri Mar 15, 2002 12:18 pm

personally, i believe the family is only loosely based on reality, on the prototypical 'parents with 2.3 kids' american standard; it is a metaphysical sort of representation of 'us', beings caught in the simplicity of existance, members as we are of the 'family of man', living out our lives in the light-blue melancholia engendered by the humdrum task of 'taking out the trash', i.e., all of the existential effluvia we must clear out in our hopeless search for perfection....

mallethead, on the other hand, is clearly almost documentary in his realism.

Toddandpenguin · Post by **Toddandpenguin** » Fri Mar 15, 2002 2:32 pm

Well, for some insight (as much as I could pry out of him, anyway) into the enigmatic man behind the doodle, one could read the <A href="http://toddandpenguin.keenspace.com/spo ... terview</a> I did with him last year. Boxjam had some great answers.

~dave