Weird New England (Cont.): Creative Platypus

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Another scene from an unfinished novel.

After Bukatman's Hellboy's World, I decided to continue my comic book meditations with Glen Weldon's The Caped Crusade: Batman and the Rise of Nerd Culture. Between the two books, I've had some time to think seriously about comics in a way I haven't in several years. It's also inspired me (in my own fumbling way) to begin incorporating comic motifs into my own art with the art markers. Right now, that means a lot of Hellboy's black and flat color aesthetic. We'll see if it morphs into anything else in the days and months ahead.

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