Daniel Boone and the Giant p10 - Boone and Crockett: The Sasquatch Sagas Chapter 3

 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!

Daniel Boone and the Giant p9 - Boone and Crockett: The Sasquatch Sagas Chapter 3

For those of you just joining us, this is my latest project which entails the retelling from personal letters the stories of encounters by Daniel Boone and Davy Crockett with Bigfoot. To read the entire series thus far, click on the Sasquatch Sagas link below. To read just the currently unfinished Daniel Boone part, click on the Boone & Giant link below. And for the Davy Crockett portion you can click here for the Bigfoot Prophecy. 

…We now return you to our regularly scheduled comic already in progress…

 

Good Questions

 

Dismem-Boar-Ment page 32

The advantage of having a perpetual half dozen projects in progress simultaneously is that, when you hit a snag in one, there’s always another one to pivot to in order to maintain creative momentum. 

On arriving at the final page or two of my Daniel Boone and the Giant chapter of my Sasquatch Sagas project, I realized, due to some of the archaic terms in the original narrative, it required a little more research in order to clearly see a vision of the unfolding story and how to translate it onto the page. 

So while that is mulling about in the background, I am afforded the opportunity to turn my attention to another project that has lingered unfinished for some time - my Dismem-boar-ment comic about a profound Vision Quest I experienced a few years ago.  

Ta-da!

To read the rest of my Dismem-Boar-ment comic (and to get a hint as to the title) click on the “Dismem-Boar-ment” label below. 

 

Daniel Boone and the Giant p8 - Boone and Crockett: The Sasquatch Sagas Chapter 3

Page 8 of Daniel Boone’s experience with a Sasquatch, where the previous second hand narrative of the letter’s author suddenly shifts to the firsthand words from Boone’s own mouth. 

To read the rest of this story thus far, please click on the Boone & Giant label below. For the entire comic to this point please click on the Sasquatch Sagas label. I hope you enjoy it and thank you so much for reading! 

 

Daniel Boone and the Giant p7 - Boone and Crockett: The Sasquatch Sagas Chapter 3

Here yet is my latest page of my most recent ongoing comic project in the comic-tization of the true life adventures of both Davy Crockett and Daniel Boone, who each independently experienced encounters with a Sasquatch -- This being a man's letter recounting Boone's first-hand account as told to himself when he was a boy, from around the turn of the 19th Century when correct spelling was still just optional.

To read the rest of the Daniel Boone portion up to this point please click on the Boone & Giant label below. To read the Davy Crockett portion please click Here. And to read the entire comic thus far, please click on the Sasquatch Sagas label below this post.

And as always, thank you for reading! 

 

Daniel Boone and the Giant p6 - Boone and Crockett: The Sasquatch Sagas Chapter 3

 For those of you just joining us - This is page 6 of chapter 3 of my most current project, so on its own, out of context from the rest of the comic, there are sure to arise a couple of questions. Other than the obvious, “What the heck is going on?” there’s the additional, “How can this guy write comics if he can’t spell worth a darn?” Both questions share the self-same answer: This is a “comictization” (like a ‘dramatization’ but with… well, you get it!) of a documented Sasquatch encounter experienced by Daniel Boone, as reported through a handwritten letter by a person who was told the story firsthand by Boone himself at the turn of the 19th Century when there was still quite a bit of wriggle room where spelling is concerned, especially in the Kentucky backwoods. 

To read the rest of this story, you can check out my previous post here. To read the entire comic thus far, please click on the Sasquatch Sagas label below. And, as always, thank you so much for reading!