This is the very first COCHLEA & EUSTACHIA comic I ever drew over two decades ago.
At the time, I was drawing my weird surrealistic comics when it was firmly recommended to me by friends and relatives that I should create a consistent character that could be licensed and marketed, etc.
I decided to make a pair of characters so they could converse with each other. I also decided it would be easier to just draw the same figure twice and make them twins. Having them be sexy girls in scant skirts would keep me entertained, and the masks made them seem almost like traditional superheroes.
The commercial potential of these two girls has yet to be fully realized, but I did discover that I didn’t mind drawing them repeatedly for the years that followed.
You can see in this early example, I still used lots of static cross-hatching to fill up space in the backgrounds. The girls were also a little meatier, which I think some readers still preferred. Oh, well.
More to come, soon!
