It’s amazing to me sometimes where my mind goes. As I was reading the letter that is the basis for this comic, and I reached this part where Daniel Boone is describing the “giant” he’d just shot, particularly the “long yellowish hair” portion, my mind suddenly saw this Sasquatch in an Alphonse Mucha, Art Nouveau painting. I’m sure you’ll recognize the genre I’m talking about from my drawing below.
At first I thought, “No. I can’t do that. That’s just a little too far.” Then I remembered what one of my spirit guides advised me recently. “Lean into your whimsy.” There’s a kind of poetic beauty there, because it was the no-nonsense, all-father, king of the Norse gods, Odin who said this. Yet there’s a certain level of whimsy necessary to even mention having a casual conversation with an ancient god.
Besides that I am the cartoonist and I can do anything I want. So there!
This page also helped me come full circle in a way, and pointed me toward the realization of how much influence Art Nouveau, and Mucha in particular, had on my personal art. Along with Mucha is the Hanna-Barbara cartoons that filled my childhood - Yogi Bear, Huckleberry Hound, Touche Turtle - which were always drawn with thicker, heavier outlines, with lighter lines filling out the details on the inner lines.
And so I present to you page 10 of our little yarn, and the Art Nouveau Sasquatch.
To read the entire series thus far, please click on the Sasquatch Sagas link below. To read just the Daniel Boone part, click on Boone & Giant link. I hope you enjoy it, and thank you for reading!
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