I did this drawing of Wonder Woman in my spare time, just so I could work on that costume. I don’t hate it as much now, but I still feel like it’s more complicated than it needs to be. The trickiest part of this for me was retaining her femininity, but weird things happen to your drawing style when you watch a two day marathon of RuPaul’s Drag Race. I had to reference the hands so that Diana didn’t end up with man-hands.

A pin-up for my friend Bridgit Scheide’s wonderful Brother Nash comic. http://bridgitalldigital.deviantart.com/. I was honored that she asked me to contribute.
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This week’s Alphabeast is the problematic peevish phantasm known as a Poltergeist. He’s a nasty little piece of work and an all around troublemaker. Literally a “noisy ghost” by his German etymology, Poltergeist are generally thought of as malevolent spirits that take pleasure in upsetting the living by throwing around solid objects, slamming doors or cabinets and making knocking and stomping noises when decent people are tryin’ to sleep. What a pain. Sometimes these brats of the spectral plane will be tied to a place (perhaps a house hastily built on a burial ground?) and will only haunt a specific locale. But other times they may be attracted to a particular person and follow their hapless victim all around, causing trouble at the office, the grocery store or even in a nearly defunct Blockbuster Video store. It’s best not to get yourself a Poltergeist if you can help it.

Well, many experiments and accidents in color later, and a website database crash later, I am finally catching up with my Alphabeasts. I truly had fun with this one. Looking forward to “N” and onward, in a much speedier fashion!

Just when he thought he was out, they pulled him back in. The Ouroboros, that is, anAlphabeast with an acute fascination with the deliciousness of his own tail. Often depicted as as serpent or, as here, a dragon feasting away on his own hinder quarters, the Ouroboros is an ancient symbol of the cyclical nature of the Universe and of alchemy and very possibly donuts. Oh, a wagon wheel!

A new Mr. Lune print I will be selling.
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This week’s N themed Alphabeast is Namazu, a giant catfish that the Japanese blame for causing earthquakes with his thrashing about. To prevent these calamities, the god Kashima placed a weighty stone atop his head to pin him to the bottom of the sea. However, occasionally the Namazu wriggles free and shakes the Earth with his mighty tail.

This is way overdue, but I’m still giving it up for Lamashtu.

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