Nizzibet and I have been together now for 18 years. During that time we’ve each been, at least, half a dozen different people. We’ve grown. We’ve changed. We’ve given each other the silent treatment. We’ve said too much. We’ve danced. We’ve made art. We’ve made family and expanded it. We’ve been each other’s cheerleaders. We have made a home in each other where the doors are always open and a warm fire is always burning.
Happy Anniversary to my favorite Mouse.
Final colors. And this is also my last post for a little while. My computer access is limited and I don’t have a good scanner available. But I shall return!
A little bit of highlighting.
First stage of Photoshopping.
Final pencils with accent inks.
McRory might be the narrator and protagonist but it’s Morgo here whose name is the serial’s title.
In my early research about the novel, before I actually read it, it sounded like Morgo was a Mowgli/Tarzan sort: a boy raised by beasts who becomes king of said beasts. Morgo’s actual origins are both more complicated and vaguer than that. Morgo was a young English boy prior to his life in the caves, so he knew “civilization” at one time. Once he came to caves he was adopted by the protomen and batmen in one of the lower caverns. Somehow he rose to become their king and leader. How that happened is left vague.
McRory, final colors.
McRory does like his smokes.
Morgo the Mighty takes place in series of giant caverns located beneath the Himalayas. Most of the caverns have a “daylight” cycle, a period when they are flooded with light. In the novel, the method of how the light gets from one cavern to another is left … vague. There’s an explanation for why there’s light in the caves but it doesn’t work if you think about it for more than a minute or two.
So in this illustration, I’ve depicted an organic method of lighting the caves. I plan to go into it in greater detail in later illustrations.
When McRory salvages supplies from his crashed plane he makes sure to grab a carton cigarettes. McRory is a twentieth century man.
