Glen the Caterpillar Comics

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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.

Glen Stumbles into an Awkward Moment…

It’s my favorite month of the year – October! And since Halloween is just around the corner I thought this week’s comic should be about something spooky – and that’s how I came up with spiders. Keeping to my musical theme the only song I could think of was The Who’s Boris the Spider and for some reason that combined in my head with Charlotte’s Web and before I knew it there was a torrid break up scene wheeling its way through my strange mind.

So there you have it. How spider break ups work. An answer to a question no one asked.

Glen in Misheard Song Lyric #1

This song came to me one day when I decided to let YouTube play whatever it wanted to. After about four hours it fell face first into a pocket of modern British music that was completely and utterly new to me- a hapless American just trying to mess with the algorithms. This led to four more hours of nervous laughter and confusion as I went about my daily chores, occasionally looking up to see what was playing. At one point the Arctic Monkey’s Cornerstone came up and I couldn’t turn away. This wasn’t the raucous happy music that was playing before it. It was just…. face-peelingly awkward. Of course this endeared me to it because I fucking love English awkwardness. Peep Show level awkwardness.

So this lodged itself in my brain as I listened. The only problem is I found this particular accent to be a smidge hard to understand at times so it’s not really that surprising I got it wrong and heard, “I kept my chocolates to myself” instead of, “I kept my shortcuts to myself” but at that point I couldn’t change it. The image was already planted in my head. WITH CHOCOLATES. Because chocolate makes everything better. So do itchy red sweaters. An homage to the original video. And you know what? Now that I know what the lyrics actually are I’m still hearing chocolates.

So now you know what happens when you mix awkward lyrics, bad ears, and a rubbery caterpillar. Stuff. Lots of stuff.