Trongo Bongo
Trongo Bots. I've been drawing these goofy looking mech suits for so many years. I'm a big mech, super giant robot enthusiast. seriously. I spent a huuuuuge chunk of my childhood reading watching stuff like Voltron , Tranzor Z (or Mazinger Z if you want to be a purist about it) and yes... of course, Gundam . but of all the mechs and robots out there i say that i was most influenced by Shirow Masamune's Appleseed manga series when i was a kid, which was filled with all these wonderful personal sized mechs he called landmates. Shirow would used these really great organic shapes that often reminded me of insects, and that just pulled me in further into his magic. seeing smaller, one man, personal mechs was a revolution to my mind, and I immediately was drawing personal mechs in everything I created. with Munch Chunky i wanted to continue with that tradition, but since MC is a lighter more fun story i didn't want the designs of the mec...