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INKTOBER 52 2024 Week #33: STORMTROOPER. “I should keep a running tally of the ‘Star Wars’ references I make with Inktober prompts. It is my biggest creative influence, as I’ve mentioned every time I do one of these, so it’s always fun to find ways to pay homage to the ‘Star Wars’ universe. I

INKTOBER 52 2024 Week #32: FANG. “Alright, who knows this character? I think I first learned about Fin Fang Foom from an edition of the ‘Overstreet Comic Book Buyer’s Guide’, which I used to get to keep track of the value of all the comics I collected when I was in my teens in

INKTOBER 52 2024 Week #31: BEAN. “There’s really no product that can’t be improved by adding Plunger Monkey. Don’t worry, there’s a disclaimer on the back confirming that grilled monkey beans do not actually contain any monkeys, the name is purely based on how much simians love them. Probably. The beans are suspended in

INKTOBER 52 2024 Week #29: HELLBOY. “With a prompt this specific, it was kind of hard to do anything that wasn’t equally specific. I’m not sure when I first heard about ‘Hellboy’, but it was probably not long after it was first published, as I was actively collecting comics and reading ‘The Comic Buyer’s

INKTOBER 52 2024 Week #28: RATTY. “One of the few drawbacks to wearing a plunger as a hat… I struggled with an idea for this one, but the thing that kept coming to mind was ‘ratty hair’. At this point, I’ve had long hair most of my life, but I’ve never been particularly great

INKTOBER 52 2024 Week #27: FREE. “There were a lot of different directions I could have gone with this one, the word ‘free’ has a lot of meanings. I actually asked my wife and kids (and one of their girlfriends) to do a quick word association thing just to help steer me in a

INKTOBER 52 2024 Week #26: AWARE. “In hindsight, I’m kind of wishing I drew PMD as his superhero alter-ego The Masked Plunger, or at least split his face with the mask the way Spiderman is often drawn when his spider sense perks up and he’s not in costume. I honestly kind of forgot about

INKTOBER 52 2024 Week #25: ABDUCT. “The notion that there is other intelligent life out there in the universe is very interesting. What would it look like? Would we even be able to recognize it? What have they learned that we haven’t, or vice versa? Will we ever find the signs of, let alone

INKTOBER 52 2024 Week #24: KNOCKOUT. “It was basically impossible to avoid referencing my favorite fighting game of all time, ‘Tekken’, for this prompt. This specific illustration is based on a screen shot I found of Jin absolutely decking Hworang. It was very dynamic and cool, so I just had to use it as

INKTOBER 52 2024 Week #23: DINO. “This prompt helped me remember something I haven’t thought about in a long time: Gon. He is a diminutive t-rex-ish dinosaur with a big personality, a bigger appetite, and some insane strength. Gon began as a very popular manga by creator Masashi Tanaka, but also made an appearance