I love the colors you used here, red and white classic, and the sneakers are great! He's got great attitude!

Stubborn, sporty, doesn't care, and a little sloppy...that's Rama! I like his 'little slugger' outfit and red/white seemed like a classic baseball color combo. Also the little 'F' on his shorts is from my imaginary furry clothing/gear line called 'Furban'. You can catch it here and there (snowboards and surfboards will have a logo on them, too).

"Don't go coppin'/no attitude/with The Dude"~Quincy Jones 'The Dude'

I hope he doesn' trip over them shoelaces!

(nice arts!!) ^v^

Ha! I was gonna make a little joke about that; just don't mention it to Rama...he might not take it very nicely This character and a couple others I jokingly call "The Get Along Gangstas". If you don't recall the source of my bad pun----http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Get_Along_Gang
They're cornier than I remember

I guess everybody wanted to make a Carebbage Patch Puppy...

Ceagle beat me to it! I second the motion to declare this nice art. :)

Sounds like an interesting group you came up with. I do remember The Get Along Gang quite well. I had a couple of their read-along books when I was younger.

They were pretty cute and all, but talk about problem children!

It's funny how universal the 'community' cult of cartoon characters occured in that decade; the Surfs, the GA Gang, Care Bears, Monchichis--were us 80's kids that f'd up? I guess our hippie parents wanted to bring a little communal feel-good magic into our lives, too.

Don't forget the Shirt Tales! ;)

You know, I avoided watching those cartoons because most of them were pretty bad. I liked the Care Bears movies, but that was about it. That's not say I didn't watch them [i]at all[/]; better bad cartoons than no cartoons, I guess - though I've since reversed my attitude on this point. :P

Shirt Tales!! I loved them, I'll admit. Tyg mainly...and I still regret that my mom never made me that Halloween costume...

Yup, pretty much stopped watching Sat. morning cartoons in the late 80's when they just got bad or were replaced with golf footage or talk shows. Luckily the Disney Afternoon and WB toons came along :) (by then I was already tired of Ren and Stimpy)

Everything about this is awesome

Gad-zooks! If I forget to hit 'reply' to a comment one more time...POW! I punch my own bill...*see below VVV*

Thanks :) I should do more with this character. Rama comes from an east Indian family and rebels against tradition. He's a bit of a grump and defiant but fun-loving (not always legal fun). I often thought he could be an emcee ala The Pharcyde; sort of goofy but serious enough.

Ha! The gear kind of reminds me of what Fatlip would wear sometimes, great backstory dude!

FATLIP!!! You get so many cool points I can't even count 'em.

True story: Back in 2004 when I worked at Starbucks, somebody once came in and asked if they could put some flyers on the counter for folks. I said sure (not really policy but then I'm a rebel).

First I thought they might be rave flyers or something, then I looked and they had "The Pharcyde in concert" with artwork from the cover of 'Bizarre Ride II The Pharcyde'.

I looked back at the dude and said "Wait, *THE* Pharcyde?" Then he pointed to two guys behind him. I must have looked totally rediculous with my jaw hanging open as Bootie Brown and Imani stepped up. Everybody laughed and I was all "NO WAY!!" So I can say I made coffee for at least two members of the group, and got an autograph

Only sad thing was no Tre (Slimkid) and Fatlip...but I did have the fortune of seeing all of them live in '94...

Ah man that's so awesome!!

So far, I've only met DJ Premeir a few months back at the Red Bull Big Tune, OHNO at the Little Tokyo hotel room beat battle, and Warren G at our School's Power 106 vs Varsity Basketball (I didn't play that one).

But man, that's a sweet story.