Mac

[Lynnie]

Originally Posted by don Jaime

Cheese refers to Mac as "blockhead" on the commentary for "Mac Daddy." It occurred to me that Mac was originally based on that other blockhead, good old Charlie Brown. Is that why he has the adorable square head, do you suppose?

Originally Posted by Dragonrider1227

I didn't know he was based on Charlie Brown. This makes me want to draw him in Chuck's famous sweater XD

I don't think Cheese referring to Mac as "Blockhead" had anything to do with Charlie Brown, but rather the fact that Mac indeed does have a square head. Charlie Brown may have been one of many inspirations for Mac's design though. Perhaps personality as well. Eh, I'll let Craig himself explain his design for Mac-

Originally Posted by Craig at BLOGregard Q. Kazoo, in his blog about Mac, dated July 8, 2006

...He started out more of a "Peanuts" "Dennis the Menace" type kid but there was something about this design that didn't feel right. He felt dated to me or something and I could never really "connect" to this kid. So I quickly changed the design of the head there he was.
Only afterwards did my family point out that he looks just like me at that age. I can totally see it now, but at the time it was totally subconcious.

And if you want to see the test designs for Mac (and Bloo, Coco, Ed, Wilt and Frankie) and the entire blog, here's Craig's BlogSpot. He hasn't posted in almost a year now, but what he's done (so far) is awesome.