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Summary Traits | Russell is a very shy and creative young man. He is a grade or two younger than the rest of our young principal characters. |
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Core Personality Traits & Values | Russell Patterson has an extremely vivid imagination and a very active dream life. He just may be the most talented and creative student at New City High, but he lacks confidence so he too often daydreams as a means of escape. |
Archetype | The Dreamer |
Motto | “It is okay to live a life that others don't understand” |
Collaboration Background | Russell’s character was initially developed during the original Made Collaborative in-person classroom collaborations with youth in the fall and winter of 2013, as part of an after school program in the West-Side of Chicago. |
Debut | Issue #1 of the Back of the Yards comic series |
There’s a magical time in a young person’s life, before the opposite sex becomes quite so interesting, when the diaphanous membrane between dreams and reality is at its most permeable. It’s a time when dreams can be shared easily between those with whom we’ve forged a special, life-long bond.
Russel and Draymond are cousins—but more like brothers, really—and they share a common dream iconography made up of interwoven archetypes and meta-narratives. Together, they intermittently inhabit a whole universe of stories that are both created and experienced by the two.

Table of Contents
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Neighborhoods
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Who is…
Draymond Carter?

Creating A Character (Part I)
The Basic Traits

Who is…
Peaches?

Who is…
Tamia Parker?

The Hero’s Journey (Part II)
Initiation

Who is…
Big Earl?

Introducing
Back of the Yards!

Who is…
Andre Davis?

The Hero’s Journey (Part III)
The Return
