At some moment in early 2013 I needed art for an animal for this game I was making. So I opened up Photoshop. It was a western-themed game, so I traced out this buffalo-looking thing.

I'll call it... muffalo. I thought. Sounds stupid. Just a temp name. It amuses me, at least.

I made the body. But buffalo heads are kind of complicated. So I just used the Photoshop oval tool to make an oval and shaped the chin a bit. The eyes? Half-circles. Because on the Simpsons when someone looks sleepy they shape the eyes like that.

I'll need to get a real artist to do this when I have any money, I thought.

In a final moment of creative flair, I made him blue.

Why not? It'll be fun. Blue.

Now he's on a mug.