Commission for  Zigzagziggy

Zigg's ideas are always awesome to work with... and this time around was no different. He requested a Bison with the dominant color Red. Such a profound and simple concept, I was wondering how I didn't come up with it myself!

During the course of illustrating this, I remembered that in Ojibwa "Bison" is called "Mishikode-bizhikeh". This is actually a compound of two words: "Fire" and "Cow".
The reason Bison are called this is becuase the plains on which they live are notorious for burning up- plain fires are common, and would make the Bison flee. Form here stemmed the term; weather it was becuase the Bison fleeing the fire would make them seem as if emerging from the fire, or perhaps the fact that they were also engulfed in the flames while running, or simply becuase the local Aboriginals were associating the local environment with the type of cow - it makes for an interesting term.