So the other day, I was walking past a shop window all rugged up in my big coat & scarf ready for another cold winter’s morning, and I thought to myself:

“My God! I look like an
Edward Gorey illustration!”

I thought it might be funny to do a little comic or something done in Gorey’s style, about some character who realises he’s in a Gorey comic.

I started with a bit of a sketch at the pub while waiting for friends to arrive:

Then (as I was struggling to embellish on any kind of story) I figured I might as well try a bit of an etching, as it kinda matched the style and I’d recently bought some ‘british scraper board’ that I was dying to try out:

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Ok, ok so its turned out to be not very Gorey-esque, but it was still a lot of fun! I’m not sure if I should leave it as is, or if I should fill in the whole thing to be more like the biro sketch… I love the emotive quality of having a character sitting in the dark, contemplating his cartoon nature, but I’m itching to continue with more and more detail (thereby lightening the scene.) Should I keep going, or start something new?