Fatso and Doughboy began with an idea, like most things do. But before I get into that, let me tell you a bit about the Silver Age of Comic Books. This was a time where every other cover had Jimmy Olsen turning into a homicidal alien tree due to some magic space crystal, or had Superman launching Lois Lane off of a cliff tied to a bus, smiling and waving as he did. In short, the Silver Age made absolutely no sense at all. There was, however, a recurring theme in the Silver Age - with all of this crazy nonsense floating around, some ideas were bound to show up more than once, but this concept was exceptionally common: at least once in nearly every series, the titular hero would peculiarly and inexplicably become very, very fat.
This made me get to a bit of thinking...what if there was an entire series based off of the plot of obese heroes? After watching one too many episodes of Freakazoid! (Never seen it? Shame on you! It's a great show, look it up!) I got to doodling characters for this quirky little comedy seriest that was forming in my head. I've gotta say, from start to finish, the main idea hasn't changed much, except for a few characters have been left on the cutting room floor, and Fatso wasn't the original name. He was at first slated to be Butterball, which still sounds a lot better...but after an unfortunate Google search late into production, I discovered that Marvel comics already had a property under that name, with the same "fat" gimmick, too! More aggrevated than discouraged, I redesigned the costume and renamed the guy "Fatso", calling that sufficient. Days went on and pencils got sharpened, until at last, I saw it fit to be called a true comic.
But I've mostly been rambling about the process - I'll let the original introduction I wrote for the series, scrawled on the back of a half-used notecard at one o' clock in the morning after waking up with the brilliant idea, serve as a proper description:
"More powerful than a locomotive!
...that's part of a model train set.
Faster than a speeding bullet!
...being shown in a slow-motion video!
And able to collapse tall buildings with a single bound!
Although his physical fitness is less than to be desired, his spirit, willpower, charisma, and uncanny ability to bounce like rubber make him into Gourmet City's number one superhero! With his trusty sidekick Doughboy by his side, the forces of evil stand no chance against him - he is
