Remember to Turn the Paper

One of the two creatures depicted above is Garmegula, a giant monster I made up many years ago because I wanted to write some very short allegories about very tall monsters. Now he is the mascot of this site, in part because he staggers ever onward despite reeeally not having it together. It’s a quality I feel very much at home conveying. I think you can probably relate. Of course, when you or I are upset we don’t take it out on the structural supports of human society. In my opinion that’s what distinguishes us from kaiju. And since kaiju are just people dressed up in costumes, pretending to be bigger than everyone else… well, you can see how I got started with the allegory thing. I think Garmegula’s lineage in popular culture must be pretty obvious. In fact, if you’d asked me a couple weeks ago what I was trying to capture when doodling him, I would have told you “obviously golden-age Godzilla, I’m not even trying to hide it.” But then, while at work on the drawing I used to…