Why “Ango76”? (Patreon)

When people ask me “Why Ango76?”, I usually start to tell: “Well… once I had the axe…”

Every summer, starting at the age of 13, I had a camping with the group of children and teens and a couple of adults, going by catamarans down the river during 7-12 days. Once, when I was 16 years old, we prepared the necessary tools for our regular camping and realized that our old axes were already useless, we had two good ones only and it wasn’t enough. I was responsible for firewood, so I volunteered to buy an axe. And I’ve bought it. The price tag “290” was drawn on the handle of my new ax, I didn’t like it, so I took a marker and tried to change it somehow - it turned out “Ango”.

Some years later I started posting my first drawings on DeviantArt, and before posting anything, I had to register and create my own login (nickname) for myself. I had no ideas how to call myself, then I recalled my axe. The nickname “Ango” was already taken, but it didn’t bother me, I just added two random numbers as my fingers lay on the keyboard - I got 76.

That’s it. There is no meaning in my nickname :)

My parents recently found my axe, they’ve sent me these photos, so I decided to show you them and tell this story.