Home


Characters Sock · Jonathan · Mephistopheles · Providence · Jojo · Lil · All	Media Welcome to Hell Short film (Cast) · Sequel	Around the universe Demons · Angels · Deities · Locations · Hell

Sock official art 1 — Promo art of Sock by Erica Wester.

Napoleon Maxwell Sowachowski (commonly referred to as "Sock") is the main character in Erica Wester's short film and comic Welcome to Hell. Wester first began drawing Sock without a name, and when she asked friends for suggestions she eventually decided on "Sakuryu". He has endured several name changes. Formerly he has been Sakuryu (or Saku) and Kilroy Conrad. She later chose to Americanize his initial name into "Sock", which became short for Sowachowski. A possibly defunct explanation for how Sock comes from Sowachowski is that a childhood friend, likely Jojo, couldn't pronounce Sowachowski. Read more...

Sock at his family gravesite, having just thrown a parent in their grave.

More photos...

We are currently editing over 51 articles, and you can help. The following pages are in need of some extra love.

Wester notes that Jonathan Combs "looks like a stoner" but isn't, and that it might be the influence of the main character Anton Tobias of the 1999 horror-comedy film Idle Hands and Roger from the musical Rent.
FZS is the school Jonathan attends in Welcome to Hell.
If Welcome to Hell were to become a live action film, Wester would be interested in seeing Michael Cera play Sock, because "he’d be so unconventional and awkward about it."
Mephistopheles was heavily influenced by the Lead Player from a performance of the musical Pippin Wester saw at her high school. He was even originally to perform a musical number in the first Welcome to Hell animated short film.

Type keywords or an article name in the search box at the top of the page, below the circular links in the main body of the front page, or in Search. Need more navigation help? Check here.