Hello and welcome! It’s good to see you again.

We have arrived at December, the last month of the year. Three more newsletters and then we’ll be seeing 2022 on the dates.

I know. I write the obvious.

These Days …

Work at my USPS station has started at 6 am. We come in, grab whatever large parcels that the clerks have sorted, load our trucks and go deliver in darkness. We sort the mail and the rest of the parcels when we get back. On a good day I only have to deliver my own route. Most days I (and other carriers who would prefer to go home earlier) get drafted into carrying part of a route that no one is covering that day. Twelve hour days are common. I’m expecting them to remain so until after Christmas.

I’m kinda of expecting them to remain so long after Christmas. We need more carriers. Our customers have gotten used to having more things delivered and I doubt if that will change. Why shlep to a store and bring home a forty pound bag of dog food when you can have the friendly mail person do it for you?

Bleah.

Assemble!

One of my recent commissions was family portrait. The client has friends who, as a family are fans of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. He asked me to draw each member of the family as their favorite character. The color art was delivered as a digital file. The original balck and white physical art got mailed (and arrived safely). Can you guess which MCU characters are represented?

Frame 352

Most folks have seen Bigfoot.That is, most folks have seen a photo of Bigfoot as taken from the 1967 film taken by Roger Patterson at Bluff Creek, California. The shot where the Bigfoot turns to the camera has been copied in many illustrations of the critter.

The Mighty Nizz was raised by a Sasquatch. So, of course, I had to do a version of that shot. Nizz clearly doesn’t care to be photographed.

This image is available on schtuff in my Redbubble store.

That image was the wrong aspect ratio to fit in the 2022 Mighty Nizz Calendar but there are plenty of other illustrations included to warm your months. If you haven’t already, please take a look!

And please, take care of yourself. The world is a better place with you in it.

See you next week!