ABOUT

"To understand the Hucktards and what lead to this particular point in time you need to go back more than a century.
It all started in the mid-19th century in northern England...
Credence Clover suffered from a mental illness that made her slower than other women in her geographical area but not enough to be considered a total nut case.
She was the only daughter of Protestant Reformers and widowed at about the same time as she married.
Bartholomew — her husband — shared with her the conjugal bed until two months later when a fatal fever ended his life. Fate dictated that was long enough to impregnate his womb with what would become the First Hucktard in History.
For her sustenance and her offspring’s, he left thirty-three acres of arable land, livestock and fruit trees. And a manor built by Fannypharts’, Dorksett most considerate craftsmen.
Time passed by and, generation after generation, the Hucktard family built up their fortune, becoming widely known as hardworking and fair christian businessmen.
Credence Clover died of very old age at the outset of WW2 and never saw what would become of the once flourishing Hucktard Manor.
Flash forward I
It was the 1960s and the world embraced the Age of Aquarius while Dorksett was only now turning to industrialization. The lands didn’t spit a peanut since the War and the Hucktard’s fortune started vanishing at the speed of light. The situation could not be more dramatic and a practical solution became urgent.
To maintain some financial health, the family started selling land cheap as chips.
For two decades, Dorksett — and especially Fannypharts — produced components for analogic telephone switchboards (PBX) later sold nationwide and abroad. Yet, the rapid democratization of modern electronics and the advent of integrated circuitry have rendered the industry obsolete.
In the following years, many companies closed doors and their factories left abandoned. Fannypharts transformed into a thirty-three-acre warehouse cemetery.
The Hucktards and their sumptuous Manor remained as a living testimony of more abundant days.
Flash forward II
The 80s. Thaddeus, Edwina and their two teenage offspring are the last Hucktards on the planet. Together they’ve worked on an ingenious plan to survive demographic desolation and financial drift.
By the mid-1980s, artists and tech-savvy businesses were looking for cheap properties to rent and buy, and both loved the patina of decadent industrial architectural archaeology.
In the run-up to the family economic recovery, Thaddeus decides to sell the family’s silverware to finance a complete remodeling of the Manor’s interiors. From now on it would accommodate seven small flats for rent and a catering unit.
The family home, transformed into a condominium, begins to receive the first tenants.
It’s on 13 of January of 1985 that this history begins ...
Story by Nuno Tuna © 2017"

Front: Character sketched with Staedtler Pigment Liner 0.05 e 0.08 for the outlines and Copic Ciao Warm Grey n.º1, nº3 e n.º 5 markers for the greys. Back: Character's name and specs. All on 210X148mm (A5) light beige Bristol Boards. Disclaimer: The story, all names, characters, and incidents portrayed in this production are fictitious. No identification with actual persons (living or deceased), places, buildings, and products is intended or should be inferred.
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