Snicklin

Snicklin is a progress-less idea of a cartoon. It uses elements of surreal humor and non-fiction events; the idea was made up by Evan Wigton.

Now, what most people ask Evan are what his name means; “snick” means “sharp”, and “lin” means to stop or to cease. “Sharp” frankly means “smart”, according to American English. Therefore, “Snicklin” means “dim-witted” or “un-intelligent”. There have currently been no known releases of a book or a cartoon based on Snicklin.

Origins
Snicklin was brought to life in childhood, when Evan was 10; he and his friend Josiah Byrne drew comics for a hobby. Evan made one based off of an infamous video game called Dizzy the Adventurer; he called it “The Great Book of Dizzy Episodes”, the characters featured Nad, (A vaguely dim-witted lizard who stands on his hind legs, also saying his name turns you stupid. The name “Nad” was possibly a misspelling of “Ned”.) Daisy, (Dizzy’s girlfriend.) Donna, (A formless black figure.) Vécia, (Donna’s husband.) and of course, Dizzy.

One day, Evan started designing all these logos and characters for different comics, and one was named Snicklin, originally a comic strip series about your everyday stick-figure with a face.

A few months later, Evan started getting tired of the Dizzy comics and started a new one, choosing Snicklin from the bunch of comic ideas he came up with. During the time, Evan was extremely influenced by Johnen Vasquez’s drawing style, and decided to alter Snicklin’s design; he drew him with an octagon-shaped head. Thus, Snicklin was born.

He decided to add other characters as well; Murray, Maurice, and Sin. Evan later on added a new character named Rice. (A creature that Snicklin picked up from another dimension.)

Later on, Evan started writing fanfictions about him. It became locally popular, and Evan started writing books and screenplays for his neighbors, and eventually, his friends started asking him to write stories for them.

Characters

Snicklin (Male)

The main character. Loves video games, loves playing video games with Rice, a complete mishap at times. Snicklin has a terrible ability in driving, and loves coffee more than anything else in the world.

Characteristics:

Dumb, ignorant, retarded, clumsy, radical.

Appearance:

A balled stick-figure with an octagon-shaped head, rectangular eyes, no nose or ears. 20 years old.

Origins:

Born in the hospital of New York City, dropped on the head at birth.

Quote:

I loooove to be a young person!

Murray (Male)

Snicklin’s older brother, a conscious born-again Christian, also a good friend to hang around with and talk to.

Characteristics:

Loyal, caring, mildly radical behavior.

Appearance:

A black haired stick-figure with an octagon-shaped head, rectangular eyes, no nose or ears, wears a necklace with a cross on it, coupled up with Maurice at age 22. Currently 27 years old.

Origins:

Born at the same hospital as Snicklin, learned very quickly at childhood, became a born-again Christian at age 20.

Quote:

I’m a newcomer at everything.

Maurice (Female)

A mild-mannered woman, very responsible, acts like a mother, which she practices on Rice and Snicklin.

Characteristics:

Loyal, caring, responsible, master of the house.

Appearance:

Like Snicklin, with blonde hair and very pretty eyes. Currently 22 years old.

Origins:

Born at the Connecticut State Hospital, learned quite rapidly, and met Murray at age 17.

Quote:

Are you serious?

Rice (Male)

A high-spirited, creative creature with attitude. Has all the personalities of Murray, Maurice, Snicklin, and Sin combined. Rice is a cool guy to hang out with.

Characteristics:

Energetic, lustful, curious, extremely radical.

Appearance:

Big, round eyes with no pupils (OO), a head half the size of his body, sharp teeth, claws, pointy, cat-like ears, slim, orange body, stands on two legs. Currently 12 years old.

Origins:

First years lived in the eighth dimension; Snicklin bought him and took him to his dimension, and raised him as his own. Murray and Maurice taught him math and vocabulary, and Sin taught him how to use a pistol.

Quote:

You want this chili dog?

Sinbad (Male)

People mostly call him “Sin”. Very dark and moody attitude, most people worry about him. Maurice just thinks he’s creepy.

Characteristics:

Moody, lonely, mysterious, dark, often uptight.

Appearance:

All black, eyes sticking out like planks, has a visible body unlike Murray, Maurice, and Snicklin.

Origins unknown at this time.

Quote:

I don’t have time for this.

Snicklin and its Sense of Humor

Snicklin develops a unique sense of humor, such as describing scenes that use plots based off of word salads, as in one episode, King of the Hill; there is a pond, a jigglypuff is prancing down merrily until a bunch of tentacles come out, grab it, and pull it into the lake, meanwhile, on the other side of the pond, Rice is talking to his inner self in the form of the Kiwi Fairy. This is an example of the humor the Snicklin series uses. Another example goes like this; Murray and Maurice are getting engaged, while in the background, an explosion occurs, and two monkeys go flying up into the sky, and then land on a billboard right next to Murray and Maurice. And the most popular one; black-and-white ideas painted green are sleeping in rage.

These are the series’ most common sense of humor. This is the main point of the series: major surreal humor. This was influenced from Homestarrunner, a webtoon devised by Mike Chapman and Craig Zobel, this webtoon, too uses surreal gags to reach its humor goals.

References to other Cartoons

What is also popular about the stories is the crossovers/cartoon references, where characters or elements of other cartoons are referred to.

For instance, in one cartoon a jigglypuff is seen in the background being pulled into a pond by a bunch of tentacles, and in another scene, she is seen being ran over with Snicklin’s car. In another episode, Rice is seen arguing with Snoop Dogg, and kicks him into a well in rage. In another scene, the ghost of Snoop Dogg is seen in the background kicking a door while Snicklin is using a soldering iron to infuse a PaPeRo to the kitchen counter, carefully reading the PaPeRo set-up instructions upside-down.

Music

The symphonies of Snicklin mix electronic genres with punk rock, depending on the situation. Though, most of the time the cartoon is not playing music.

When a character experiences fear, a series of electronic violins are heard being rapidly stroked, then a long pause, then stroked at another chord, much like in Halo, when the Master Chief finds private Jenkins dead in the cell containing the Flood.

When an action sequence, such as a fight occurs, electronic guitars play and muffled drums play for a bass, but at time an actual bass takes the drum’s place.

When a character is sad, a piano plays and violins are stroked. In the end of the symphony, the last key on the piano is hit and yawning is heard.

When a character experiences awe, positive music plays; violins and electronic violins are played, followed by an electric guitar, then a chorus.

When a character is in love or is experiencing lust, hip-hop music is played; electronic screeching noises are played along with muffled drums and a bass, followed by other electronic instruments, all operated by machines.

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