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Back in 2002, in the Devil May Cry 2 issue of Game Informer<\/em> magazine (which you can read right here for free if you have an account on our website<\/a>), we featured a piece of Invader Zim<\/em> fan art in the Envelope Art section. We declared it the October winner and confusingly wrote, “Deformed goth chicks are cool!” as its caption. Recently, Bluesky user @drewchuck.bsky.social<\/a>, while looking through Video Game History Foundation’s impressive archive of video game magazines, noticed the art was attributed to Rebecca Sugar. Rebecca Sugar is not a common name, but we suspected it might just be a coincidence, so we reached out to confirm if it was them.<\/p>\n

“Yes I did draw this,” Sugar told us over e-mail. “I must have been 15.” Back in 2002, Rebecca Sugar was a talented teenage artist, but today they are known primarily as the creator of Cartoon Network’s Steven Universe<\/em>. You can also find their music in Katamari Damacy creator Keita Takahashi’s latest game, To a T<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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“Yes I remember!” Sugar wrote. “I was proud of it. But at the time I felt guilty winning with fan art. I felt I should have sent something original. I had plenty of original characters back then. I was also confused by the caption.”<\/p>\n

Sugar was disappointed that one of their first technically published works was fan art, but was still proud of the achievement. “I remembered that I\u2019d won for Zim<\/em> fan art, but I forgot about all the other characters around the border,” Sugar wrote. “I was reading a lot of independent comics at that age, and drawing my own. Jhonen\u2019s comics were my favorite. Johnny the Homicidal Maniac<\/em> and Squee<\/em> of course, and especially I Feel Sick<\/em>. Seeing Devi drawings on there makes me nostalgic.”<\/p>\n

Despite finding their own success with work on Adventure Time<\/em> and creating Steven Universe<\/em>, Sugar is still an Invader Zim<\/em> fan. “Yes, I wrote the forward to the Invader Zim<\/em> art book a few years ago. I didn\u2019t mention this drawing of course. But they know I was, and am, a big fan.”<\/p>\n

The Video Game History Foundation’s Bluesky account<\/a> points out that after that first mention in the magazine in 2002, Sugar would come up again 15 years later as part of a preview for the RPG, Steven Universe: Save the Light (written by yours truly after playing it at E3).<\/p>\n

To dive deep into Game Informer<\/em>‘s archive of magazines all the way back to 1991, just make an account on the website and head here<\/a>. You can also explore the Video Game History Foundation’s impressive archive of many more video game magazines (including Game Informer<\/em>) by heading here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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