"Monster, This is Your Life"

in

Finally returning to Lynda Barry's MAKING COMICS exercises (beyond my daily bastardizations of of her Attendance Cards exercise – perhaps a useful way for me to expand my brain in a decidedly expanding-challenged time. Barry's rules for this one:

"Paper, divided into six frames... each frame will take three minutes… you will be jumping around the page, drawing in this order: Frame 1, 6, 3, 4, 2, 5...

  • 1. Draw the monster as a newborn in a certain setting.

  • 5. As a kid engaged in some kind of activity

  • 3. As a disgruntled teen doing something you did as a teen

  • 4. As a young adult enjoying themselves

  • 6. middle-aged, at work

  • 2. At its funeral. It lived to be old. We can see its body in this picture."

My results:

Six panels: a snake monster as a baby on a microscope slide; as a kid playing with blocks; as a teen smoking and proferring the middle finger; as a 20-something roaming a city, smoking; as an office worker; as a body in a burning coffin.

Remind me never to use the snake-monster again: he was a pain to reproduce. Earlier (much earlier, it seems) efforts live here.