Among other things, I now anticipate a renaissance in my comics world. The 6 page group that follows is from a wonderful sequential art class I took with illustrator Jeremy Holmes this semester. Jeremy’s class brought me new media (crayons) and characters (namely lady bigfoot, and I think I’m getting attached… how do you feel about a new character duo named lady bigfoot and bedbug imposing on this blog? doesn’t it seem like the couples’ therapy possibilities could be quite productive?)

One final word before I let you take a bath with lady bigfoot: the characters in this scene are 1) lady bigfoot, 2) the Loch Ness monster, or Nessie for short, 3) Paul Bunyan and 4) Babe the blue ox. The general idea is that these b-list mythological figures can take anticlimactic baths just like the rest of us. I hope to find myself in similarly hopeless scenarios this summer, but rest assured: all characters appearing in this work are fictitious. Any resemblance to real personmonsters, living or dead, is purely coincidental. Enjoy!

This comic is a companion piece to the mini-poster from way back in July marking Zodiac’s birthday. This artifact, in contrast, is dedicated to no particular occasion. Or on second thought,  perhaps… : Spring is upon us? Our friends in Zodiacland are still alive? And presumably so are we since we are reading this? The weather is messed up but still sometimes magical and pretty? We are connected (purply,) whether we like it or not? Pendulous shreds for celebration… but extant, yes?

So go ahead, click on the image or this very sentence to download the high-rez, print friendly pdf. It should come out best on 8.5×11, and I personally request that you color in the umbrella. I heard somewhere it takes a village, which we could totally make if we get enough technicolor umbrellas.