Guards! Guards! Nobby

Guards! Guards! Nobby

In today’s Guards! Guards! we meet Corporal Cecil Wormsborough St. John “Nobby” Nobbs. Like a lot of the characters in this book, Pratchett hasn’t completely finished fleshing him out. So he isn’t quite the harmless simpleton he will become. He’s still the most corrupt member of the watch and needs to be watched. But since the watch is so short-staffed, this is the guy who’s showing Carrot the ropes.

It took me a little while to perfect Nobby’s design. It wasn’t enough to make him short and ugly. I had to make sure he was someone who could be mistaken for a chimpanzee in the right light.