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INKTOBER 2023 Day #30: RUSH. “I dare say if you get this reference, this song is now stuck in your head like it is mine. You’re welcome. In case anyone can’t figure it out, there’s this ‘little’ hard rock and heavy metal band out of Canada called Rush. They formed in 1968 and could

INKTOBER 2023 Day #29: MASSIVE. “I didn’t get super creative or weird with this one, I used it more or less as an excuse to once again draw one of Plunger Monkey’s alter-egos ‘Gorilla Monkey Dynamo’. That and I felt like practicing some extreme anatomy using a more traditional superhero comic style of hatching.

INKTOBER 2023 Day #28: SPARKLE. “This one caused me a significant amount of consternation and anxiety. I know, it’s ‘just’ a drawing, but I’m sure many artists can appreciate that feeling when a piece gets to a certain point and you really like what’s going on, but it’s not done yet and moving forward

INKTOBER 2023 Day #27: BEAST. “Dr. Henry McCoy, aka ‘The Beast’, was one of the five original members of the X-Men, debuting in issue number one in 1963. He was more or less normal looking in appearance in the beginning, with his mutant powers making him essentially a human gorilla but with genius-level intelligence.

INKTOBER 2023 Day #26: REMOVE. “I guess the question is, is Plunger Monkey imitating a classic Superman moment, or is he simply fed up with wearing a suit? I mean, I can’t really imagine why he’d be wearing one in the first place (unless perhaps he was trying to conceal his secret identity), given

“Maybe slightly less dangerous than poking a bear? I have lived in ‘bear country’ since 2001. I have seen them many times over the decades, crossing the road, popping up in yards around town, and even encountering them on my own property. Where I live, we only have black bears, which are a bit

INKTOBER 2023 Day #24: SHALLOW. “This was another prompt I didn’t think I had a solid idea for. What I came up with didn’t feel very witty or overly absurd, it didn’t reference anything from my childhood or something that has influenced me, which are some of the criteria I strive for. I still

INKTOBER 2023 Day #23: CELESTIAL. “I wasn’t sure what to make of this idea at first, or how it was going to go. I wanted to do something different, but the ONLY thing my Brain would say in response to the prompt was ‘Celestial Seasonings’. Obviously, I relented, and I’m kind of loving what

INKTOBER 2023 Day #22: SCRATCHY. “Okay, I broke my rule and went sort of literal with this prompt. Kinda. Technically it might be ‘itchy’ rather than ‘scratchy’, but whatever. This was really the only idea I had, and I found the body language amusing. It was either this or PMD with stubble, which also

INKTOBER 2023 Day #21: CHAINS. “The study and practice of martial arts has been a huge part of my life since 1995. Since becoming a parent, my time in an actual dojo has been more limited, but I still train on my own four to five days a week. Now that my kids are

INKTOBER 2023 Day #20: FROST(Y). “Everybody now! ‘There must have been some magic in that plunger hat they found, for when they placed it on his head, he began to dance around…’ All the classic holiday cartoons have a special place in my heart. They represent a magical time of my youth, as they

INKTOBER 2023 Day #19: PLUMP. “I’ve always thought ‘plump’ sounded like onomatopoeia to me. Apparently, I wasn’t wrong, as, along with the more well-known definition, it also means ‘the sound of a sudden, heavy fall’. I submit that it’s also the sound a plunger makes when suddenly applied to an R2 unit. Besides, I