Glen the Caterpillar Comics

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Glen Shows Off the Family Photo Album

We’re back! After taking a forced week hiatus due to technical difficulties! And I know, this week’s comic is just a stupid simple pun. It’s getting back to the basics… Glen started out as a late 1960’s/1970’s inspired stoner comic. I drew it when I was a super sober and totally innocent high schooler and now look at me… STILL loving this little guy a lifetime later! Nothing in my life makes sense but I’m not complaining!

The Making of Glen

I am really loving drawing the bubble letters by hand like old music concert posters. I think it adds quite a bit of character. And of course I decided to run with the late 1960’s feel with my color scheme and choice of furniture. There isn’t anything about this I don’t adore. And although it’s simple it is the first time I put Glen in a sitting position and drew a couch/seat. I don’t think I did too bad and I am amping up the courage to maybe do an animation one of these days…

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.