The Hockey Baron
The owner of ShotCrete Plus contracted me to develop a mascot for the hockey team he’d just purchased back in my hometown. Despite the negative connotations of the industrialist and robber barons of the late nineteenth century, he wanted a “baron” character, in the vein of the Monopoly Man. My character is definitely not the friendly grandfather type, like the Monopoly Man… but he is the mascot to a hockey team, so something a little more aggressive is called for anyway. They started the process of getting a mascot developed, but I don’t know if this ended up happening before the team folded.