Glen the Caterpillar Comics

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Glen and the Red Heron…

I was going to draw this last week and actually post it on time but I ended up running into massive self-inflicted technical difficulties! Suffice to say I fried my laptop’s brains and my PC went on strike when I accidentally overloaded its memory… which resulted in me not being able to save anything…

But we’re back! And happy to be so! And isn’t Glen frigging adorbs investigating bad puns? I thought so.

The Making of Glen

I could of spent a lot longer doing this comic in a more anal-retentive manner but I’m sort of in between doing 300 other things so I did this whole comic quick and dirty. I had no idea herons were such an easy shape to draw! Who knew!

Glen Plays the Devil’s Advocate for Satan’s Lonely Heart…

So last week I grew restless and tried to escape my boredom by visiting the location of a botched horse cremation. I didn’t really comprehend it was at the top of a mountain and REALLY messed myself up and spent the rest of the week recovering… which brings me to today, Monday, where I am sitting here staring at a blank screen wondering what the heck I am going to draw for this week’s Glen comic.

Finding no real inspiration I procrastinated by scrolling aimlessly through my Twitter (@TheophanesAvery) feed. For some reason it was inundated with references to Satan this morning?! I didn’t figure I had the emotional bandwidth to look into why Satanic Panic was trending so instead I just let my mind wander and BAMB! Inspiration for a Glen comic!

The Making of Glen

Today’s comic was SUPER simple although I did learn that I have completely forgotten how to draw flames… ah well, can’t keep everything in my head. The one thing I did differently was giving Glen a considerable dialogue that was in and of itself the joke. I don’t know if this will fly but at this point I’m calling it good. Maybe next week will be less stressful and allow me proper inspiration. One can always hope.

Glen Meets the Monster in the Aquarium

With my happier spirits Glen appears to be getting cuter again. This time he’s using a tiny diving bell to explore the household aquarium…

The Making of Glen

I don’t think I did anything particularly new with this comic besides mess with the opacity of the final blue layer – giving it the illusion of being under water. Even so I am very happy with how it has come out and I think Glen has come a long way in just a short amount of time.

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 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??