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INKTOBER 2025 Day #30: VACANT. “I think I’ve spent a good chunk of my life with a vacant expression on my face. It’s not that my Brain switches off and is devoid of thought, it’s just that I’m daydreaming and only tethered to reality via my meat mech most people call a body. I

INKTOBER 2025 Day #29: LESSON. “Pay attention, class! The monkey is imparting profound wisdom! I have been fortunate to have had many wonderful, impactful teachers in my life. People who have taught lessons that stuck with me. My parents of course, my high school English teacher Mr. Flangheddy (which is who PMD kind of

INKTOBER 2025 Day #28: SKELETAL. “I enjoy drawing anatomy, but that usually means muscles. I don’t spend enough time studying the underlying structures the muscles are connected to. It’s something that’s relevant to my interest in (and nerdiness about) working out and human movement. While I don’t spend nearly enough time doing drawing studies

INKTOBER 2025 Day #27: ONION. “Shrek became a phenomenon, especially in my kids’ generation and the rise of memes. There is some good humor and quotable lines from the franchise, at least the ones I’ve actually seen. Shrek is just one of those things that’s been ‘there’ for the last few decades (yes, decades)

INKTOBER 2025 Day #26: PUZZLING. “I think I’m going to have to look into making some PMD puzzles at some point (along with coloring books, that’s another idea I’ve had). Everyone and their uncle seems to like puzzles, there seems to be a good, stable market for them. I know there are online services

INKTOBER 2025 Day #25: INFERNO. “I think I’ve carried the label ‘weird’ for most of my life for various reasons. It never really bothered me, and in some ways I have viewed it as a badge of honor (if you have the right perspective). Weirdness is in the eye of the beholder, after all,

INKTOBER 2025 Day #24: ROWDY. “This is actually another ‘Calvin and Hobbes’ reference. Calvin was a pretty rambunctious kid with a huge imagination, but some of the funniest strips to me were of his random acts of chaos (especially now that I’ve raised three kids). There’s one strip where he’s pounding nails into the

INKTOBER 2025 Day #23: FIREFLY. “Even nature’s smallest critters deserve to enjoy the wondrous benefits of a plunger hat. I’ve always been fascinated by nature. I like observing and learning about all the different shapes and sizes life takes and all the survival strategies they employ. How wild is it that there are animals

INKTOBER 2025 Day #22: BUTTON. “Do you know how in cartoons, especially some of the older ones (I’m thinking of a very specific Bugs Bunny cartoon with a pair of gangsters), when someone would tell a talkative character to ‘button their lip’ or ‘button it’ or something and the character would literally seal their

INKTOBER 2025 Day #21: BLAST. “Inktober wouldn’t be complete without my making at least one reference to the great Bill Watterson’s ‘Calvin and Hobbes’. This image is an homage to a colored pinup type piece Watterson did of one of many of Calvin’s alter egos Spaceman Spiff (I think I’m calling PMD Spacemonkey Spiff

INKTOBER 2025 Day #20: RIVALS. “With the fate of the world hanging in the balance, The Masked Plunger faces off against his greatest rival: Doctor Banana! Does our be-plungered hero have the strength to squash this potassium-fueled foe and thwart his diabolical botanical plans, or will earth’s mightiest monkey fall prey to the evil

INKTOBER 2025 Day #19: ARCTIC. “Okay, first of all, for those less familiar with my work (which is probably most), Mr. Eyeballs here is a character from my graphic novel (that started as a webcomic) ‘It’s Plunger Monkey Dynamo Time’. His name is Eyezak and he’s normally not furry. I’m not quite sure how