Glen the Caterpillar Comics

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Glen Tries to Figure out What Kind of Caterpillar he is…

After a stint of feeling like I was just drawing these comics out of habit I am back to being enthusiastic about Glen and I think it shows. This week I went back to the basics and showed Glen in the same light he was in when I first started drawing him some 20+ years ago! Somehow this seems fitting.

Glen first appeared when I was a teenager and he was supposed to be the many-times-great-grandson of the hookah smoking caterpillar in Alice in Wonderland. As such I gave the hookah back to him and he seems very happy about this! I was a well behaved teen so how I ended up penning a clearly stoner comic is still beyond me. I’m OK with this though. I have no control of the appeal my creations have and that’s part of the beauty of life.

The Making of Glen

This week’s comic was super simple so I don’t have much to say about it other than I traced the hornworm and the hookah and had to work more on his facial expressions. This does not come naturally to me.

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 Observes a Moment of Prayer…

Ooooh Glen, always trying to join in the fun. He may have bitten off more than he can chew on this one. Har-de-har-har.

The Making of Glen

I was running low on inspiration this week and running late drawing it. I really need to stop waiting until Friday! In any event it didn’t come out half bad. It took me less than an hour to draw. I traced a praying mantis, copy and pasted, and flipped horizontal to make two facing each other. All and all a very simple comic this week.

Glen has all his ducks in a row…

I’m not sure what’s up with Glen lately but it seems like every panel I draw just gets increasingly cutesy. Today’s duck heavy theme came from an unusually hostile reaction to Ducks on a Wall by the Kinks which I personally find hilarious but apparently other’s consider audible torture. Oh well, can’t have it all.

The Making of Glen

I was hoping my illustration program would already have bubbles as an effect option but alas it didn’t so I had to resort to drawing them all one by one. I debated if I wanted to make them more realistic with little light glares on each but I realize this is a cartoon and maybe not the best place for realism. Meanwhile everything else came pretty easy as I have learned I can draw any aspect of this comic as huge as I please and just shrink it to size. This seems to work better for me. Other than that this is a simple comic with not too much fancy going on.

Glen gives the baby Kracken his first ship…

I apologize for the lack of a Glen comic last week. I had a migraine all week and was so out of it that Friday came and went without me noticing. This week I have decided to make up for this by drawing something so intensely adorable it’ll have the power to melt your heart. And here it is! Inspired by a very late night conversation about how sea monsters should be “boopable.”

The Making of Glen

This week’s Glen was a tough concept for me to gather and make into a readable image. How does one draw a Kracken in a way that makes it look like a baby? And how does one get a ship in bottle??

The answer to the first was to put the Kracken in a crib and endear it to audiences with HUGE baby eyes. As for the ship… that was actually a lot easier than I thought it would be. I drew a ship and then drew a bottle around it one layer below it. Voila! Nothing else fancy done here except use layers to make the legs all make sense.

A final note here would be that right now as my mind juggles a billion other things I have found having a muse is essential. This time it was inspired by someone telling me about a story they were writing where they were criticized for making legendary sea monsters adorable. Did I hear a challenge??

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 Hides Out in Gnomeman’s Land

So this week I have been listening to a lot of Pink Floyd… take that as you will.

The Making of Glen

I didn’t do anything fancy in this week’s Glen but I did find myself a human spellchecker!! (Which erased my need to post, fix, and then repost like I did the previous two weeks…)

Glen Interviews Bigfoot

I spent this week jokingly tracking Bigfoot so I figured hey why not let Glen go the rest of the way and snag an interview with the mysterious beastie.

The Making of Glen

I admit I was a day off this week, thought today was Thurseday, and then decided it was better to do a quickie Glen than wait until tomorrow…

It’s a simple enough pane but I did do something new – I learned how to pixilate an image in Clip Studio! Filter>Effect>Mosiac. Very cool. I will likely use this again at some point. It seems fun to use for innuendo.

Glen Meets a Newt

“Eye of newt, and toe of frog. For a charm of powerful trouble, Like a hell-broth boil and bubble!” Clearly I have been reading too much Shakespeare as of late. Mix that with a walloping dose of insomnia and I think my brain is pretty well melted. Good thing that really works for me… and Glen of course.

The Making of Glen

It has come to my attention that my art, writing, and yes, even these comics, can be a little intimidating to some because of their complexity and layering of many puns on top of each other. So I have decided to bring it down a little, go back to the basics and make it super simple. Maybe then Glen will be an easier sell because as it stands right now his only diehard fans are all people who know me personally and already love me for my weird brain. That’s really sweet and I’m not ungrateful buuuut I would also love for him to be a little more approachable to the outside world.

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