Adam suggested having the father find the toy that the Erlkönig had offered the boy. It makes the story easier to take at the end. Goethe’s version is what it is, but this version was going into a comic book for handing out as a business card for the MidSouth Cartoonist Association, and so we needed to take the edge off a little bit, right? Anyhow, Adam’s a sharp guy and I like his approach to the end.
Here you go- the first page of The Alder King, by me and Adam Shaw. And Goethe.
Creepy, ya’ll.
Here’s page 2 of Flapdoodle. The pacing is a little weird. I take a whole page to pretty much deliver one joke. There are only four more pages to come, and they may be a little cramped, what with me using page two for one gag and a little backstory. But you’ll see. Stick around.
The local cartoonist group is the MidSouth Cartoonist Association, begun in 1989 or so. It’s been through a lot of forms over the years- headed up by newspaper cartoonists alternating with comicbook folk, and with seemingly random influxes of just about every kind of cartoonist there is. Good People All.
Anyhow, they being who they are, decided that a comic book is a much better business card than… a business card. So from one of the group’s business cards, here’s the first page of my contribution. It’s six pages, so the next six Off-Hubris days will be your 1/6th dose of Flapdoodle:
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