Sunday, October 17, 2010

Chambara Punk vs Hockey Hair - Part 2




Not that anyone asked (or even recognized it as a joke) but I figured I'd reveal the reason behind Eugene's last name. Back in Kurosawa's Yojimbo movies (Yojimbo and Sanjuro) whenever anyone asked Toshiro Mifune's character his name he'd look off wistfully and give whatever he saw then "Sanjuro" as his name i.e. "Tsubaki" (Camilla blossom) Sanjuro. Now in Japanese, Sanjuro means 30 years old. Having wasted a couple credits in college to learn pigeon Japanese I know that "Jyurokusai" means 16 years old. I just ran that through a polish last name filter to get Jewrokowski. As far as Eugene goes I just think its a funny name.

Okay, not the most interesting story in the world but you don't generate too many rolicking yarns in the process of drawing comics. If it tickled your fancy then you can just consider yourself lucky that I didn't have anything better to say.