Primitif has been appearing in stories since 1983. He's one of my more 'popular' characters with readers - perhaps the look of the artwork has a more immediate appeal than other stories. As noted in the Sting of the Arrow book: Visually, I had started out thinking of Primitif as a mudman from Papua New Guinea. But the drawings had always been based on magic books from Mexico. Or at least, on my half-baked understanding of that particular art form. In a similar magpie-fashion, I often borrow fragments from mythologies and cultures of other ages, continents, and times, and adapt them for Primitif. I do this inconsistently and without any deep understanding of any of what I read about or behold. Any serious student of anthropology would be appalled by my superficiality.