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The Adventures of Bat-erpillar and Robin!

I’m baaaaaack! After the longest hiatus ever from sweet little Glen! I’m sorry for my absence – my life went off the rails and my brain turned into a stress puddle completely devoid of inspiration but guess what? Things have gotten somewhat stable again so now I can get back to drawing my favorite little rubbery blue caterpillar!

The Making of Glen

I had the idea for this Glen simmering in my mind for weeks before I had the energy to actually draw it. Funny enough I didn’t actually know what Batman and Robin really looked like… I had to Google it and copy the costume designs. As well as trace the image of a robin because let’s face it – I’m not that talented at drawing things! The only thing I really struggled with was what to make the background. Should I keep it sunny and bright or put them in front of a gritty brick building? I decided to keep them well within Glen’s territory – the lawn in summer. Why? Because they’re just playing Bat-erpillar and Robin. And whose to say that the lawn isn’t also riddled with crime?

Glen Interviews a Murder Hornet…

The past couple of weeks have been absolutely horrible for me so I haven’t had the time, energy, or funny in me to draw a Glen comic on time. That’s why this one is going up a day late… and is darker than usual. As I have stated in my other blogs gallows humor is how to get through the dark times.

The Making of Glen

I am starting to experiment with the idea of multiple panels when I can’t get a concept out in one. And that more layers is always better than less. My life has been so stressful as of late I am struggling to find the time but I really wish to grow as an illustrator and maybe do a short Glen animation in the future. It’s always good to evolve as an artist.

Exciting News! Glen had a New Swag Shop!

I know this isn’t the usual post for this website. I came here tonight with no comic in hand but I do have some exciting news! Glen now has his very own swag shop on Redbubble! So if you’ve been following the comic and just can’t live without a Glen lapel pin, T-shirt, mug, shower curtain, or anything else, please check it out! It’s also a wonderful way to support this website and the artist behind it who is…. a totally cliched starving artist who would be SO GRATEFUL for any sales whatsoever.

Much love,

Theo & Glen

PS You can find the new swag shop here.

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 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 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 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 Meets Baby Cthulhu

It’s been a very Cthulhu-laden week and I can’t really complain! It was fun drawing him… as a baby… and who knows, maybe the reason he’s so evil is because no one showed him any love. Well, we all love you now baby Cthulhu!

The Making of Glen

This week I did something a little different by creating a three panel comic. For some reason my illustrator was NOT cooperating with me to allow me to copy and paste multiple layers so making three separate panels that were basically the same took more time than it should have. Other than that this was straight drawing. I didn’t really do anything weird, interesting, or new.

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…)

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