Spider-Me

I've long talked about how being a Shaman, especially at times when I had another day job, feels like what it must feel like to be Peter Parker - Living two different lives in two different worlds. Even today, as a full-time Shaman, I'm still learning to integrate the realities and truths of shamanic life with the logistics and limits of the 'mundane' world. 

In a previous comic from twenty years ago, I drew Longleg the dog carrying a hefty stack of library books with fictitious titles to be checked out, then asks for some books he has on hold, including one entitled "Living a Quantum Reality in a Newtonian World" (highlighted below).  That in a nutshell is what I'm describing, and I'm secretly hoping that someday someone (perhaps me?!) actually writes that book. 

By the way, his library account number is actually the phone number (plus area code 320) of Gary's Pizza in St Joseph, Minnesota, which made up the major proportion of pizza consumption during my college career at near by St John's University (which is why I still have it memorized all these decades later).  

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The Saga of Didrik - Complete

Now that I have finished this particular adventure of Gerb and the gang, I wanted to put all the pages together in one post. Ta-da!!

 

Saga of Didrik page 19 plus one

Finally, as was my stated intention a couple posts ago, here is the final page of my Saga of Didrik story! It is the first of many stories I wish to compile into a collection of archery stories and myths from around the world. WOOOOHOOOOOO! 

Please click on the Didrik label below to read the complete story series, keeping in mind the updated First Page is posted here below the the final page -- Kind of an Ouroboros (symbolic images of a snake eating its own tail). When I drew the first version of page 1, it had been a while since I'd drawn Gerb, and I found the original drawing a little too stiff and unsatisfactory. Now that I've been drawing the gang for almost 20 pages, I've loosened up somewhat and gotten more into the flow of drawing him, so I wanted to redo that page, and the result is what you see below.

But first the last page of the series...

...Then lastly the first page of the comic...

Thank you for reading! <3 

 

Purple Pachyderm in "A String and a Purr"

In honor of Free Comic Book Day I wanted to share a comic book I drew 20 years ago (apparently, according to the dialog, while I was still married) starring Purple Pachyderm - one of my favorite characters to draw since childhood.

Happy Free Comic Book Day! And thank you for reading!

Saga of Didrik page 18

Almost finished! I haven't got it totally mapped out yet, but there's just a page or two more to go now until the conclusion of the Saga of Didrik. Stay tuned! 

To read the entire comic up to this point, please click on the Didrik label below, and thank you for reading! 

 

Saga of Didrik page 17

As usual for any given situation in my life, I have several brands in the fire when it comes to my comic projects. Not including any one-shot, one- or two-pagers that randomly occur, I have at least three separate comic stories actively in progress -- 

Dismem-boar-ment - Chronicling some profound experiences from a Vision Quest a couple years ago (Click on the corresponding label below to read the story so far)

Smoke and Mirrors - A exercise of soul-searching in response to some outside resistance I encountered to my spiritual path (Click on the corresponding label below to read the story so far)

Saga of Didrik - First of a planned series of adaptions of archery myths and legends from around the world, the latest page of which is posted here (Again, click on the corresponding label below to read the story so far)

So I'm going to try (I know! "...There is no try, only do or do not..." blah blah blah...😉) to concentrate on Didrik, being the one closest to being finished, and, I believe, the one I've been working on the longest, to free up some creative energy on the other two. My intention is to not let anything linger in limbo for too long. It's good to have a couple things going at the same time, so I have a couple choices of were to apply and follow my inspiration, depending on the accompanying emotional states. When things go on for too long, though, without closure or completion, for me it seems to leave loose ends which are fertile ground for the development of guilt and self-judgement, which tends to block or clot the creative energy, slowing the creative flow to the detriment of all creative projects. 

So, in that spirit, here is the latest page in the last chapter of the Saga of Didrik!

 

'Corn to be Wild

Looking through a journal that I take with me when I do sacred pipe ceremony at the local river, I found a little, almost forgotten comic I drew there. It is unpolished and sketchy because it was done 'in the field' and I am yet uncertain if I will draw a more polished and finished version. Meanwhile I thought it'd be fun to share this original version here.

This brings to mind a favorite drawing of me from an earlier comic when I drew myself as a My Little Pony unicorn. If you look closely at the last panel above, my unicorn self has the same wolf pawprint tattoo on my hip as I do below. I can neither confirm nor deny the existence of such a tattoo in physical reality.