We all know that guy…. the Bit Coin guy… you know him, I know him, he’s ubiquitous. And as he blathers on and on about how cool Bit Coins are the rest of us look up with glassy eyes and go, “That’s great Joe, real great. I need to go eat lunch now.” And our profound disinterest is likely partway because virtually none of us actually know what bit coins are… although we may have some vague ideas from the colorful language around them. For instance bit coins are “mined.”
And so I sent Glen off to the mines – to mine bit coins… although by the looks of it they started out as regular chocolate coins before being bitten. Such is life with a hungry hungry caterpillar and a comic artist who likes to take things literally.
The Making of Glen
I knew I’d have a hellishly busy week so I drew this Glen on Saturday to put up on Wednesday. I was all proud of myself for being ahead of the game. Too bad my computer wasn’t so keen. I have never had this many problems drawing a comic! For some reason it wasn’t allowing me to copy more than one layer at a time which made duplicating the trolley (and it’s wheel on a second layer) a total pain but I did eventually manage!
This comic was a very basic one. Initially I was just going to draw Glen eating a coin but why would he be eating coins? He’s not actually a toddler though he sort of looks like it – and then I thought, “Because they’re chocolate. DUH.” But just one frame – a head shot of him gnawing on a single coin seemed… too plain. So I decided he should be mining these coins and just for effect I should add the Depressed Teddy somewhere doing his usual depressing thing. This time I figured he should be reaching longingly for a lit stick of dynamite in a moment of intense anticipation not dissimilar to the comics in The Book of Bunny Suicides. And the expression on his face remindes me of yet another suicidal teddy bear – the one on Supernatural…
Anyway… dark humor aside this comic was nice in it taught me patience as well as how to make a complex idea in a simple way – something I think may help Glen in the future.
