A: Some of them are!

Years before we brought it to print, Looney Labs published a short-run Beta version of the game, all illustrated by Andy. Aside from The Emperor, which he did draw to look like himself (the Emperor of the Universe being a long-time alter-ego of his) he didn’t put anyone else deliberately into the game.

But then Andy decided he also wanted to have Kristin and Alison in the game, and the Hippy and Nature Girl were the obvious matches. We all agreed his drawing of Agent 17 looked like his brother Richard, and Inga looked like our friend Gina. So when we had Brooke Allen do the final character drawings, we requested she deliberately make them look like those people.

The rest of the characters in the original game were either drawn to look like Andy’s art, or, in some cases like well-known characters or famous people.

For the expansions, Brooke made up characters, though we did ask for our friend John to be Doctor Coffee, since he likes coffee so much, and Kevin Bacon… well, I mean we had to include him in that expansion, right? The rest were not specific people, except for maybe one resembling a famous former president.

• The Emperor: Andy Looney
• The Hippie: Kristin Looney
• Nature Girl: Alison Frane
• Agent 17: Richard Looney (one of Andy’s brothers)
• Inga: Gina Mai Denn (a close friend of ours, married to John, bellow)
• Dr. Coffee (from the Just Coffee expansion): John Cooper (another close friend of ours)
• Roland: Shane Tilton (a fan-friend of ours) (not actually deliberately drawn to look like him, but it looks so much like him that this card is honorarily considered to be of him)

The rest of these were drawn to look like certain actors, or the characters they played on TV or in movies.
• The Dude: Jeff Bridges (after his character in The Big Lebowski)
• Mary Anne: Dawn Wells (after her character on Gilligan’s Island)
• Wally: Tony Dow (Wally was “The Beave’s” older brother on Leave It To Beaver)
• Kevin: Kevin Bacon (as himself – it seemed obvious to include him in The Better With Bacon expansion)
• Abraham Bacon: Deliberately reminiscent of Abraham Lincoln

Fun Fact: Andy’s original Lumberjack was a traditional-looking guy with a beard, but Brooke’s main claim to fame is her work on the comic series Lumberjanes, which she also illustrated, so the final art was of a female Lumberjack.