ViGuy was created by Van Isle Con's artist Josh Kully. The idea for ViGuy was to encapsulate the essence of what we wanted the convention to be, into the image of a superhero.

 

The concepts given to our artist were, brining a comic con back to its roots, make the character unique and authentic, and incorporate the beauty of Vancouver Island. 

 

So a few character sketches were made using reference from other superheroes like Superman, to give it that old fashioned feel. But none of them were very interesting or all that original to look at, which was beginning to get frustrating and a little boring.  And somewhere in that frustration and boredom the need to make the character more colourful and fun came about, which lead to his design.