Trixie's Inspiration

Someone asked me today what inspired Trixie. Well, a combination of things did. Recently I was trying to think of new characters to put in my comic and I came up with a bear and her. As I was developing the characters I fell in love with Trixie and thought up a whole pile of fresh comic ideas. Her looks were inspired a little by Ronald Ann from Berkeley Breathed's strip "Outland" (and "Bloom County"). But I'd say the main influence would be that we are going to be adopting a little girl from Haiti which has been on my heart for over 4 years now. Her name was inspired by the name of the director of an orphanage in Haiti, named Dixie.