YOUNG JUSTICE: ALFRED PENNYWORTH

WB Animation Character Design, YOUNG JUSTICE, Alfred Pennyworth.

Making a cameo appearance in the first season YOUNG JUSTICE "Downtime" episode, is Bruce Wayne's loyal butler, Alfred Pennyworth. I hadn't drawn Alfred since my early days in comics, penciling a few issues of WORLD'S FINEST. I furnished two variations of the character to Lead Designer, Phil Bourassa, one with white gloves, and one without. As spiffy as the white gloves look, they do come off as too formal, and so we didn't use them.

I think that Alfred, as a character, is one of the most selfless, indispensable, and admirable in all of pop literature. Clearly, he is a central figure in the life of The Batman, and he is, as originally conceived, the most dependable and trustworthy of all Wayne's civilian cohorts. I think it's safe to say that, without Alfred, there would be no Batman, or Robin, or Nightwing, etc.. Alfred rocks!