Slither and Friends

Well, the week’s almost done, but here I am to deliver another halloween sketch. I will confess – the sketches have become “sketchier,” but I’m a busy man, dang it! Hopefully you will enjoy my quick rendition of good ol’ Frank.

I should note that I’m fully aware he is not – in fact – called “Frankenstein” but rather “Frankenstein’s Monster” (though in literary circles the preferred title is “the Creature”). But hey, Halloween is about fun and camp, not necessarily about accuracy.

I recently had the joy and privilege to go hear Scott McCloud speak at Columbia University in Chicago this Wednesday. While I was familiar with his work, it was my first time to hear him in a seminar environment. I was not disappointed.

Not only does Scott McCloud have a great speaking presence, but his unabashed, overflowing enthusiasm for comics is inspiring to a smalltime creator such as myself. For a man that has received a great deal of harsh criticism from the web comic community, he sure has nothing but glowing praise for digital comics. I’m pretty certain that you could power a spacecraft to the moon on his zeal alone.

I should thank both Kathleen for going to the seminar with me (and letting me know it was happening) and Beek, for sending me that signed copy of Understanding Comics a while back. You two are the best!