Cop Story Sketches 15

I realised I feel sad when I don't draw random Cop Story things and tried to find the time to do this again. Most of these were posted on tumblr before. And nearly all of them were prompted by memes so you can go leave some numbers in my askbox too.

Some random information about it all! Not a required reading, just in case you're curious.

Nutter, Chance and Butts never met when they were children - they are slightly different generations (Nutter being the oldest, Butts being the youngest) and lived in different parts of the UK.

Nutter grew up in Manchester (he still has the accent) and his childhood was not a happy one. Both his parents were there, well, sort of. His mother is still alive now. I don’t know how much I should tell you but it will be mentioned in the next episode of Cop Story (which compared to most of stuff in Cop Story is actually pretty soon). You can try guessing, and it’s sadly mundane.

Chauncey was brought up by his father, a heavily drinking journalist, and grew up in London. Well, technically. Actually he was brought up by various relatives all over the country since his father was too busy working. They called him Ed Edd or Eddie - that’s what his family calls him, and his friends call him Chance, and most other people call him Chauncey, so “Edmund” is reserved for people who have no clue about him but for some reason don’t use his surname. Chance hates his full name and thinks it’s a name for posh people and characters from moralising novels for children. Ed also had a severe ADHD growing up and avoided special education only because he rarely was in one school for long and had an influential (and intimidating) father.

Again, I don’t know how much I can tell you about Ed’s mother but let’s say she went missing from the picture before he could form much of an opinion of her.

Butts was brought up by his grandmother in Newton and doesn’t remember his parents (besides his grandmother’s stories). She was a sort of omniscient authority figure for him and died around the time he joined the force. He misses her a lot but doesn’t really talk about it so it won’t come up in Cop Story for a while.

And if you think this amount of imperfect families is not realistic you are very lucky and probably should get out more.

But then I thought that I always draw adult Cop Story characters as kids and it’s cute and all but I’ve never drawn under-age characters as adults. And at the risk of spoilers I drew Russell not only at his current age but also as an adult.

He goes from a depressed angry teenager to a more or less happy police radio dispatcher who is still fond of baseball caps but doesn’t feel the need to pull them over his face any more, stopped hating dark glasses because “chicks dig shades, right?”, likes to wear ugliest ties he can find, gets a kick out of telling jokes that instantly make everyone in the room feel awkward and is a regular guest on BBC Radio Four.

I want to draw Cop Story long enough to get to that but Russell just says “we’ll see, right?”

Chance is really touchy when it comes to his disability but Jon isn't and Dale isn't really touchy at all.

Tyler is a part of a big picture with supposedly all his classmates in fancy dress except I started it around January and still can't finish it but it's already big enough to not give up on it so I'll finish it eventually.

Meanwhile DI John Leicester takes his son Houston for a walk only on special occasions or when Mrs Leicester absolutely can’t do it. When he does, he goes practically undercover because he’s afraid of other cops from his CID finding out that his son actually isn’t a captain of a football team and doesn’t benchpress fifty times every day. He loves his son, and he’s generally a good dad, just… not publicly.

Which doesn’t really matter to Houston and if you ask him that stupid question of “which parent is your favourite” he will point to his father without hesitation (which is not really fair considering how much time his mother spends with him). Houston is very proud of his dad and no wonder - his dad is a cop and to Houston it means that when a gang of evil ninjas is about to karate-kick the Queen to death it’s his father who parachutes out of a helicopter to machine-gun the bastards!

DI Leicester, please, stop this nonsense, take your son to a Bring Your Kid To Work Day at last and explain to him that you tend to deal with more car thefts and less royal family assassination attempts.

And Fisher, Ghost Copper and an old sketch about foreign languages are more or less self-explanatory.

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