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Glen Introduces the Bug World to Shakespeare

So I may have been wandering around BritBox like a lost lamb when I found something called Upstart Crow – which is apparently a very British comedy about Shakespeare’s life and it had me in stitches with it’s creative reinterpretations of the classics. This got me to wondering what Shakespeare would mean to a cheerfully stoned caterpillar. And this is what I came up with. I might be biased but I think putting Glen in a fur coat is always a great thing to do. I JUST WANT TO HUG HIM! But I’ll resist.

The Making of Glen

I made Glen SUPER late this week. It’s past 5PM on Monday and I just finished it. SIIIIGH. That being said I took the background from Glen Visit’s Popple’s Dungeon and updated it with some blurring effects to make it look less distractingly cartoonish. From there I played with brush strokes to find which one resembled fluffy fuzzy wuzzy bee hair. And then I drew a skull on the bee as Hamlet demands I do. It’s style is reminiscent of the death’s heads I find on the slate gravestones that I admire so much. It’s crude, at best, I know, but it works!

Glen’s Trusty Steed Asks for a Promotion…

With Halloween approaching I felt like Glen needed a nice costume. Delighted he told me he wanted to go as Zorro and the giant snail could go as his trusty steed Tornado but I guess the lines of communication got crossed because they both showed up as Zorro… SIGH.

This is really what happens when you combine a lack of inspiration, the advice of a muse, and a few flu-induced fever dreams. Suffice to say it’s been a rough week but Glen, as usual, made it worth it. I cannot tell you how happy I am with my progress as these panels get more and more complex complete with many layers of scenery, texture, and costuming. It’s SO NICE to be able to show the world just a sliver what’s going through my strange mind. Here’s hoping you find this week’s comic as adorable as I did. Signing out with love,

Theophanes Avery

Glen Joins Tinder for Bugs…

Glen returns from a brief hiatus with a three panel comic on a new day! Hump Day! Which is when I will be posting all the new Glen comics from here on out in the hopes of gathering more love for this strange little caterpillar.

As for the Tinder? Well, he really pulled it out to show Boris from the last comic but alas, as usual he got carried away… as did I writing terrible puns into bug profiles which is WAY more entertaining than writing human profiles!