Willceau Illo News

I have a studio with a drafting table, drawing lamp and everything I would need, but it seems inspiration strikes me best when I am sitting on a couch with a sketchbook in my lap while trash streams on my Roku box in the background.

I continue to flesh out the story of the Teenage Beast or The Goo Goo Muck which is sort of a punk version of I Was a Teenage Werewolf. I first started to kick around this idea in the mid-1980s. I think my initial approach to the story like a lot of my art at the time was somewhat half-hearted and tentative. I would be all fired up over an idea one day, and then completely lose my enthusiasm for it the next. Drawings which seemed like good ideas at the time sat unfinished for decades. Stories never went anywhere beyond scribbled notes in some notebooks. I’m not sure if it was a lack of confidence in my ability or not being able to transfer the image in my head down on the paper. I don’t know what I was waiting for because I was a young man with few responsibilities and all of the time in the world. Now almost 40 years later I am regularly and happily filling sketchbook pages edge to edge with inked drawings based on these old ideas.

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