Sunday, 23 February 2014

Character profile: Mary Poppins= Cherry Robbin

Like most of the names in my comic the name Cherry Robbin is adapted straight from it's original Mary Poppins. I thought the name change had a more modern ring to it and was hopefully different enough to get rid of a direct link but keep some sort of association if you looked for it. Where as Mary is magical Cherry id drug filled, due to all her drugs things often seem magical but in fact have a sad reality. (Image source: http://www.comicvine.com/forums/battles-7/mary-poppins-vs-dr-doom-712037/)
Where as in the film Mary makes wind blow all other nanny applicants away in the comic Cherry's fowl disposition drives them away although due to her being high at the time she sees them being blown away. Also in the film Mary stays as a nanny until 'The wind changes', this is parodied in the comic by he having to stay 'until the stock market turns' (when the family will be able to afford a better nanny).
In the original Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious is a word that Mary uses and is a running motif throughout the film that characters use when they feel great joy and learn the true lessons that the film promotes, importance of family etc. In my version the word is a name of a drug that Cherry helped create and likes, I planned for all characters in the film who started to use the word to take the drug in the comic thus putting a dark spin on the seemingly innocent, good intentioned motif.
In the film Michael and Mary talk about her bag made of carpet, in the comic a similar conversation takes place except Cherry's bag is made of hemp.

Cherry's appearance is based on the visuals of girls today but mainly ones who come up on tumblr if you search: hipster girl, grunge girl or indie girl. Here are some examples of images I used to inform my depiction of her to make her contemporary.
(Source:http://greatdreamsfordreamers.tumblr.com/post/77208641895)
(source:http://berlinunpredictable.tumblr.com/post/77629782483)
(source: http://somehowunoriginal.tumblr.com/post/77542678295)
(http://indiegrungefashion.tumblr.com/post/77074997233)
(http://juliebratteng.tumblr.com/post/76946247202)






































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