I can’t really say for sure if it was last week’s story on webcomics that brought Dan Goodsell and Mr. Toast to the attention of Newsarama, but whatever the motivation, I’m really glad to see a full-length interview with Goodsell about his creation:
“I taught myself to draw and I found that drawing Mister Toast was always really pleasant. I never got tired of drawing him and he referenced a lot of things I’m interested in with printed advertising, comic books and cartoons. Since then I’ve gone a little distance and have been working on it for a few years, I realize he harkens back the earlier cartoon characters which were simpler and I can’t really make it much more complex. He’s a pretty stable surface, he can bend a little, you can mess with the eyes and mouth and arms and legs, but he’s pretty standard. Also with the blank stare, he doesn’t express a lot of emotions in general. He is this nice blank slate that I find fascinating.”