But to keep the kind of yellow in it, to act as an echo or a precursor of the yellow badge. So I designed that to look a bit like that. He’s the one with the ruffle around his neck and the big buttons. One of the classic clowns is called the Pierrot. So what he’s actually wearing is a Pierrot costume. So we knew when we first saw him he had to be a much more gaudy, over-the-top version of what he became. They were much too brightly colored and they didn’t fit quite properly, and they looked like fake, fancy dress. A lot of those old style superhero costumes, Golden Age of comics costumes, looked a bit clunky. Well, the first time you see the Comedian is when he’s really a teenager.
Did you and Alan talk about why he made that transition to using the smiley face as his symbol? Within Watchmen, the Comedian also has that purple buckle before the smiley face.
This big hulking dark character, with this little splash of bright, silly color. But he looked very serious so I thought, “I wonder what would lighten it up a bit?” So on the sketch that I did, I drew a tiny little yellow smiley faced badge, almost as a throwaway, because I thought that’s a really interesting contrast. So I thought, “How about if he was dressed in black? If he wore this really dark kind of costume and it was very functional with lots of ammunition belts and straps and pouches and things like that with just a hint of the stars and stripes?” So I drew this black character and he had a star on one shoulder and red and white stripes on the other. But of course, that looked kind of dull because camouflage by definition syncs into the background. So my first attempt at designing him was to give him a military uniform, like a khaki-green-brown military uniform, camouflage uniform. The character of the Comedian was supposed to be a government agent who worked undercover in foreign countries to stabilize them.
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