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Full Name

Chuck Whelon

Where Am I?

San Francisco, CA

Homepage URL

http://www.pewfell.com

Webcomic URL

http://www.pewfell.com

Biography

I am the creator, artist and co-writer of Pewfell. I was born and raised near the Basingstoke roundabout in England but now work for an advertising agency in San Francisco, CA where I live with my wife and son.

Some of my influences for Pewfell include Popeye, Asterix, The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers and the books of Terry Pratchett. Pewfell is an everyman, struggling to make his way in an exceedingly bizarre world, he is a hero, but more often than not he is also a victim.

The series has something of an autobiographical nature to it; it takes place more-or-less in real-time and Pewfell ages along with me. Changes in Pewfell's life reflect changes in my own and characters are often based on people I meet. Sometimes people will pester me to put them into the strip. The last person who did this was my former next-door neighbor, who you now know as Gnoma, so be warned!

I love to work in the sci-fi/fantasy genre because it frees me to tell stories that are not tied to any specific location or time and can provide some perspective and comment on the wacky world we live in. It also means I get to draw lots of fun stuff like goofy looking monsters and bodacious warrior princesses in chainmail bikinis.

Pewfell began running as daily webcomic in early 2001 and was one of the charter strips offered as part of ModernTales.com when it launched in 2002 and continues to appear there to this day.

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