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! 

A Normal Day

This one comes from the “A Day In the Life of a Shaman” category. Most of the time I forget that my life with its inherent synchronicities, miracles, and Divine Interventions is not ‘normal’ - That most people’s days do not include such things as conversations with dead people, deities, or dragons, or experiencing the Universe directly responding to what I may do, say, or think. I seriously find myself thinking, “Isn’t everybody’s life like this?”

And this is why the directive from White Buffalo Calf Woman to me during my first Vision Quest was to “share my path.” Not that I am in any way special, but my path as a Shaman is different from most, and in sharing it, hopefully, others get an inkling of how much bigger the possibilities for their life are when they step outside the narrow spectrum of normalacy, and begin to expect the extraordinary. 

As Dr. Wayne Dyer would say: “I am a realist. I expect miracles.”

And thus is this comic page an ‘ordinary’ day for me.

 

Daniel Boone and the Giant pp1-5 - Boone and Crockett: The Sasquatch Sagas Chapter 3

Next stop - Boonesborough! Here is the beginning of the next chapter in my Sasquatch Sagas series where it comes time to tell the story of Daniel Boone’s real-life encounter with a Sasquatch. Any strange phrasings or spellings are due to this being a direct relaying of a personal letter penned by a 18th Century gentleman to whom Daniel Boone personally told this story. 

As an aside, the fourth page below is, incidentally, the first time, I believe, I’ve ever drawn some form of firearm in my comics. Thus far I’d always found a clever way to scrub around guns, such as in this earlier Davy Crockett comic. I won’t go into my personal feelings on the subject here, but at some point my plans do include drawing at least one excerpt from The Three Musketeers (One of my life goals is to learn French so I can read the original Musketeers books by Alexander Dumas), and musketeers, strangely enough, require muskets. 

 

More coming soon, so stay tuned! And thank you so much for reading! 

Visit from Artemis

Applausibilty

 

Segue p4&5 - Boone and Crockett: Sasquatch Sagas Chapter 2

When I finished the final page of my segue between the Crockett and the Boone stories, and went to post it here, I discovered that, though I'd uploaded it, I hadn't actually published the penultimate page yet.

So here they are together, the last two pages of the segue/break/intermission between the main stories. Next stop Boonesborough!

If you'd like to read the whole comic thus far, please click on the Sasquatch Sagas label below, and to read just the segue, please click on the segue label. 

And thank you for reading!

Segue p3 - Boone & Crockett: The Sasquatch Sagas Chapter 2

Normally when I do one of these Gerb and gang renditions of literary sources, the portrayal itself contains little jokes and fourth wall flouting dialogues, questioning, mostly on the part of Gerb, the direction taken, or the interpretation of the material, by the “lame-brained cartoonist.” 

For some reason - perhaps the brevity of the original source materials - so far, this particular project hasn’t contained the same breaks and asides from the primary documentation. Therefore, this ‘second chapter’ segue between the two main stories was probably inevitable to give the necessary space and free reign to the guys to express those things that are such an integral ingredient of my comics. 

To read the entire comic thus far, click on the Sasquatch Sagas link below, and to read just the Segue portion, click on the Segue link below. Thank you for reading!