What made you explore the idea of alopecia and shaved furs as a lifestyle in the comic and what keeps you going with it?

Well, it's something that I've personally been interested in for a very long time. I like the idea of bald-headed women (and shaved furries), but it's been hard to find many good examples of it. Far too often it's treated as a one-off joke in a sitcom or it turns into a forced headshave scene which I do not like. For starters, alopecia and female hair loss in general is still a virtual unknown. The only time you ever see a bald woman, it's always that same, "Do you have cancer?" bit. People simply do not know about the condition of alopecia in the first place.

The character of Madame Cueball was created to be able to explore this. Not only is she "bald as a cue ball," but she is a superhero who uses her pool playing skills to fight crime. This character idea is kind of a double play on words of that phrase. While she has alopecia universalis, I've never made jokes at her expense about her condition nor treated her as the butt of typical bald girl jokes. She's a very strong character who was always intended as a sort of role model. I wanted her to be a character that could be looked up to. In my own small way, she is trying to fight the eternal stigma attached to women with no hair. Madame Cueball has also been seen in my artwork shaving other peoples' hair and fur off in her salon, but it is always consensual and by their own choosing. If she went around doing forced headshaves, she'd be a villain, not a hero.

As for the shaved furries, that is sort of a related tangent to the first point. Furries, as the name implies, are known for their fur. As hard as it is to find a regular bald woman (in real life or in fiction), it's much more rare to see an anthro character without fur. Again, this sort of thing has usually been reserved for the "bad haircut" gag, but I've never seen it explored with a character that simply likes to have their fur shaved off. What if, like a person who shaves their head, there was an anthro who wanted their fur cut off? That was the basic genesis of the idea years ago in my artwork. Now, while my own shaved furry artwork over the years had been somewhat fetish-based in the old days, I've tried to make it simply more of a lifestyle choice. Just as some people like their hair long, there are others who like it cut short or shaved off. I figure within the anthro world there are furries who think much the same way. For my characters it's simply a different way to get a haircut. For Rosie and Stephanie, it makes the summer months much cooler. For Stacy, it makes her look more like her step-mother, Madame Cueball.

Thanks for the question!

Thank you for the response. As a fellow furless enthusiast, I do enjoy your take on it.