– Starting this week I’ll be putting a new piece of original art on ebay every 5 days. As some of you know, I’ve ran into some issues with the new Modest Medusa book. You can read about it here, but the short version is that the book cost more than I thought it would, so now I’m short on money to actually send it to the backers who generously supported the Kickstarter. It was a stupid mistake on my part, but I’m working hard to fix it. Selling some art will help me build up the funds I need to get 500 books in the mail as soon as possible.
Here’s the illustration that’s on auction this week. This is drawn in blue pencil and pen and colored with markers on 9 x 12 bristol board. It’s one of my favorites! The auction goes till next Tuesday, and I’ll post the next auction on Weds. You can see the auction here.
her snakes are looking downright worried there…
Who knows…if Jake starts chopping off hairs left and right…No hair is safe :O snake hairs are especially delicious you know
Today’s cartoon reminds me of a certain Chas Addams cartoon.
http://www.newyorker.com/cartoons/bob-mankoff/charles-addams
Oh, nice. I’d never seen that before.
Jake’s hair: Noooo! I’m not going back! You’ll never take me alive!
Modest: !!! Shut up! And hair’s not alive! …Is it?
Jake: Er- yes! So that’s two against one! Motion is defeated by a clear majority! Home! 🙂
Call out the hair-sea rescue squad.
Reminds me of Naga’s snake-hair-cut in Does not Play Well with Others.
Oh, I should read more of that.
Modest doesnt have hair or fingernails. If she doesnt shed her old skin like a normal snake then she literally has nothing on her body to compare hair to since every bit of her would be alive or have nerve endings. If she does shed I wonder if her mom saved her first shedding out of sentimentality.
It’s not clear if she sheds or not. I haven’t decided anyway. She actually does have some regular hair as well. If you look close you can see it sometimes. It’s not particularly obvious though, given how I draw her, but there’s some normal hair on her head as well as the 4 big snakes.
….if her hair snakes get severed, what if they turn into full snakes instead of dying?
and if Modest regrows snakes if one is cut (wasnt the full grown form of a medusa called a hydra or something a while ago?) she could have a veritable snake army!
or just use them as manual labor
whichever is easier…
Her snakes don’t obey her while they’re still attached, why would they once they got loose? Lolz! They’d slither around doing whatever they pleased. 🙂
But it is possible they continue to live even if cut off, which is why MM is so concerned about Jake’s cut-off hair.
He should mention, that human hair is not alive
Jake needs to explain to Modest that human hair is nothing like Medusa ‘hair’.
Aww, it’s cute how her snakes are helping her pull Jake’s arm.
The Barber is awesome!
I really hope the Barber is just like Modest imagines. But is actually a nice guy despite his scary look. Or has one of those magnificent curl moustaches a red and white striped shirt a straw hat and a cane.
Let’s get this joke out of the way. “Conan the Librarian”
Wait, does MM have experience with temporally displaced Romans? The term does come from their dickish mockery of all Germanic language words as sounding like nothing more than “bar bar bar”.
Shout out if you’ve also got Vandal, Goth, and/or Gaul ancestry!
Grrlpower has a Barberian.