Who’s Who? Mina

Okay, one more… Mina is Conny’s first and best friend at her first school. (Okay, the only one.) They hang out during every break, always in the library. Conny doesn’t mind that nobody but her seems to know Mina, that she always seems to appear out of nowhere or that they never meet anywhere else. […]

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 Who’s Who? Conny’s Ma

She tries her best to be a supportive mother, even though you can’t say she ‘gets’ Conny. Is the monster thing just a phase like the imaginary (she thinks) friend phase, or is it a serious delusion? And what’s with all the fighting? Well, at least, with all the backtalking and stubbornness, you can say […]

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 What’s What? The Goblins

Underneath Conny’s house, connected to the upper world only through a food chute that leads from Conny’s room to the kitchen and further down, way down below, there’s a cave which leads to a mysterious underworld, populated by goblins, one of which you see pictured here. Conny met them right when she moved in and […]

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 Who’s Who? Kevin

Kevin, more than any other character, is what his parents make him. A sophisticated mix of drugs designed to make him calmer, smarter and friendlier makes sure of that. It also makes him sort of braindead, and since that zombie incident the dose has been reduced. He even sometimes makes complete sentences now.* This is […]

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 Who’s Who? Tim

Of all of Conny’s friends, Tim can probably best described as “the normal one”. He’s a sports fan and computer gamer, a mostly quiet kid who has a hard time being torn between his friendships with Conny and Gaijin. Strangely, between him and Gaijin, he’s the one I can picture having a samurai sword on […]

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 Who’s Who? Gaijin

Gaijin is one of my favorite characters. Right away when I first introduced him as a potentially disposable supporting character in Tales From The Sandpit, I knew he’d be back. Because he’s just so much fun to write. Gaijin (he hates it when you call him that, btw) is a big fan of all things […]

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