Glen the Caterpillar Comics

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Glen Has Misgivings about this Year’s Pardoned Turkey

My humor has been a little… dark…. lately. This year’s Thanksgiving comic is the perfect illustration of this. I wanted to do a joke about a pardoned turkey and immediately my mind ran to, “Put him in a balaclava!” (Apparently the voice in my head is British or else it would have said ski mask…) From there it was all down hill.

The Making of Glen

This week’s comic came very easily to me. I drew the body of the turkey first and added his head and wing in a second layer. From there I just needed to add the ski mask, Glen, and something suspicious for him to say. It all went very quickly. Think it took me less than an hour!

Glen Brings his Kids Trick or Treating

An early and appropriately socially distanced Happy Halloween to all my wonderful weirdoes out there! Here’s Glen doing his rounds Trick-or-Treating with is kids… all behind masks and on leashes. Bravo, little guy, you’re a brave soul.

The Making of Glen

I really toppled down the rabbit hole with this one! Spent more than four hours illustrating it because I wanted the spooky house, spooky tree, and the costumes… there’s a lot going on here. And I got to include a little Among Us fellow peeking out from the tree all “sus.” I’m not a gamer so I have to thank this inspiration to my muse and his insistence on making me watch funny YouTube videos (which I love! Don’t get me wrong!)

What did learn from this delightfully nerdcentric panel? Uhhh… how to make shadows for the tree? Everything else was just me playing with skills I already had. I am loving this one. It’s been the best in a long while.

Glen Plays “Dungeons & Dragons”

Before you all start yelling at me, “THAT’S NOT HOW YOU PLAY D&D!” I KNOW. Gawd, do I know. This week I have been repeatedly asked to join a campaign. You are so sweet for inviting me but I don’t think you truly understand what you’re asking. This Glen comic is 100% the amount of seriousness I could pull off playing. I am only good at comic relief and I don’t think that’s an actual role sooooo….

The Making of Glen

This was an interesting comic because it started out being three panels in my head, you know a little conversation between Glen and an unseen narrator, but I managed to boil it down to one adorkable image. I recycled the background of my Popple Dungeon but added a few things – mainly I blurred the grout lines to make them look a little more realistic and a little less cheesy. I’m always in the air about whether I want Glen to be super simple and campy or weirdly realistic. This is apparent in the fact I started out trying to draw an actual Dungeons and Dragons suit of armour and ended up instead arming him with a rubber chicken….

I also realize this comic might come off as a bit… mmm…. misogynistic. Trust me, as an owner of tits and a twat I am actually making fun of the trope not endorsing it. Besides, all us nerds know virgins aren’t great dragon bait – they are much better at catching unicorns.

I have no control of Glen. He damn well does what he wants to do and I am but a hapless observer.

Glen Gives a Gift to the Headless Horseman

Hey hey! Glen and myself are back after two accidental weeks on hiatus! Of course we had to come back because it’s October and Halloween season is the best of the year, especially living in New England which has such a steep tradition of horror. This week’s comic reflects this beautifully combining the Headless Horseman with the most terrifying things to ever come out of a cabbage patch. Happy October everyone!

The Making of Glen

I must admit that all these little breaks I keep taking from Glen are born to the fact that I have just been overwhelmed by life and I know with the current climate I am by far not the only one breaking under the stress. Similiarly, I have been struggling with profound disillusionment and disappointment in the human race so I felt the need this week to draw something kind.

And boy was it a challenge! My first attempt at drawing a horse resulted into a crude doodle befitting a drunk toddler. My second attempt inexplicably looked like a kangaroo which made no sense what-so-ever considering I had come to my sense by that time and was just tracing an actual horse. It took a great deal of tweaking before it looked somewhat OK. I’m now mildly satisfied with my efforts. Next week shall be better.

Glen Learns How to Argue the Straw Man…

I know, I have been really bad at posting Glen regularly. It’s a conflict of schedule I have at the moment as well as the nature of life these days so I’m changing his day to Monday… and because I am very exhausted at seeing people argue I am making a little light of in this week’s comic. Ah Glen, my little glimmer of sanity…

Glen Illustrates traditional American corporate morals…

I’m a little lat in posting today as I had some big ideas and well… they boiled down to this. I’m not unhappy with it.

The Making of Glen

This week’s Glen started out a cute idea and sort of turned into a snarky political commentary as I was drawing it. I didn’t mean for this to happen it just did – probably because these are things I have been thinking a lot about lately. I read an article yesterday saying countries in lockdown experianced an up to 90% decrease in premature births and scientists have noooo idea why! Thing is just ask any large scale breeder, social worker, or maternity nurse and they’ll tell you why — premature births are usually caused by too much stress on the mother. Telling new to-be moms to stay at home probably greatly reduced their stress levels! DUH.

Sorry, for the rant. I’m just getting increasingly agitated with the status quo. BUT ANYWAY I didn’t do anything new in this comic. Although I did trace a photo of a katydid to get them right. I am still pretty bad at free hand illustration.

Glen Does an Infomercial

Today Glen shows everyone his little side hustle – perfume for cats. I think we can all agree we needed this this week. I know I did!

The Making of Glen

This week my inspiration for Glen was someone who wasn’t talking so well and said purry-fume instead of perfume. It was a long and trying week on us all but this made me laugh because I thought, “That COULD actually be a word…” And so I set about making a little infomercial. I didn’t do anything special illustrationwise but I am happy with the aesthetics none-the-less, and the idea of making the purrfume into a cat bottle that spritzes perfume out of it’s mouth… again that was all me being weird while I was drawing the thing. In the interest of keeping glen PG (which I don’t actually always want to do but my internet audience seems to want) I refrained from making a series of crude puns. SIIIIIIGH.

I think everyone is going a little insane lately. God know I am, so it’s been really nice to come up with a Glen comic I’m actually pretty proud of. Hope it made you laugh!

Glen Stumbles onto Some Old Photos…

I have been so scatterbrained lately I totally forgot to draw a Glen last Friday AND almost did the same thing today! Quarantine is turning my brain into mush… but it has allowed me to do some Spring Cleaning where I found these old gems from Glen’s adolescent years…

The Making of Glen

I had an image in my head of Glen on one of those horrible laser light background school photos and I had to draw it out… So I had to source the laser background, research what headgear looked like in the late 80’s and then work my way forward from there ending this little teenage saga with a walloping dose of Lisa Frank. Glen insisted on the Hanson Brother’s T-shirt. I had no say in this. All and all I found this hilarious.

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