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Thus spake Nostradamus!
Presenting the cover for Hocus Pocus #4: PROPHECY
Finally, I drew this page during the height of @ExtinctionR's protests and wanted to work in the @extinctsymbol since it was on my mind. We're ruining our Home, folks.
And in the noble tradition of self-deprecating cartoonists, I cast myself as the smarmy and pretentious artist.
The deerstalker hat peeking out is another reference to Arthur Conan Doyle via Sherlock Holmes.
The little frog fellow's name is Mr. Croak and calls back to the very first comic @RikWorth & I made together - a short horror story called "The Land of All Sorts".
The woman in the bottom corner of Doyle's lecture is inspired by a (possibly dirty?) sketch by one of my great-relatives (either Agnes or Ruth Collver according to the inscription) in their Canadian history schoolbook from the 1920s. I guess doodling in class runs in the family.
Stan Allen runs the biggest magic convention called @MagicLive2020. Here he is being (lovingly) pushed off stage by an overly-enthusiastic young mind reader. And note the poster!
I made a short comic a few years ago explaining the science behind pareidolia in a bit more detail.
It's a bit small below so you can read a larger version here: https://t.co/1h7QYitPZQ
Back to Issue #3 and on a cheerier note, here is my favourite panel from the Pepper's Ghost story. I was chortling as I drew it.
The horrific creature being projected is a louse drawn from Robert Hooke's 1665 landmark illustrated tome "Micrographia".
I've long been an admirer of Eyvinde Earle (a background painter on Disney's Sleeping Beauty), so when it came to drawing a gnarled tree I knew who to turn to.
Seriously, look up this man's art, it is staggering. I sometimes have to avert my gaze from its sheer aesthetic force.