{"id":44548,"date":"2025-02-04T07:01:45","date_gmt":"2025-02-04T12:01:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/?p=44548"},"modified":"2025-02-04T07:01:45","modified_gmt":"2025-02-04T12:01:45","slug":"this-is-the-end","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2025\/02\/04\/this-is-the-end\/","title":{"rendered":"This is THE END"},"content":{"rendered":"

…or it could be. I may have figured out the end of my story and I am working my way backwards.<\/p>\n

\"Pen

The Teenage Beast in a fiery conflagration is sent back to whence it came.<\/p><\/div>\n

I never planned on revisiting the Teenage Beast<\/em><\/a> character which I cooked up back in the mid-1980s, but I find that is where my pen and my sketchbooks are currently taking me. More than one person has told me that I ought to work it up as a story, possibly a comic book which may not be a bad idea.<\/p>\n

I’ve been fishing through my filing cabinet<\/a>, ancient notebooks and old sketchbooks to see if I had a fully fleshed out story for The Teenage Beast<\/em>. I’m not finding anything complete, but I am finding a decent amount of crumbs. Rereading the old notes is a slog because some of them date from when I was still in high school. It’s difficult reading the ramblings of my teenage self, but some of the sketchbooks I kept after I got out of art school aren’t too bad. A lot of these old drawings seem to be variations of the two drawings I just completed<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"Goo-Goo <\/a>
Goo-Goo Muck’s final form <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Goo-Goo <\/a>
Goo-Goo Muck sketch from the ’80s <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"1980s <\/a>
1980s Goo-Goo Muck sketch based on a guy I knew <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>\n

So I’m jotting down notes and sketching in the sketchbooks and a story is taking form. I’m not sure what the final format will be — maybe an illustrated story or maybe a comic. I don’t know.<\/p>\n

\"Teenage

A doodle of my monster as he reaches the end stages of his demonic form.<\/p><\/div>\n

I have a vague notion of where I am going — sort of like an outline. I’m trying to build the story via these key sequences which are percolating up through the pages of my sketchbook. Sometimes I hit: a lot of times I miss, but I am enjoying the process.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

…or it could be. I may have figured out the end of my story and I am working my way backwards. I never planned on revisiting the Teenage Beast character which I cooked up back in the mid-1980s, but I … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":44549,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4953,49],"tags":[158,17,9,76,2034,5,25,480],"class_list":["post-44548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-doodle-tuesday","category-it-came-from-the-sketchbook","tag-analog","tag-cartoon","tag-comics","tag-horror","tag-it-came-from-the-sketchbook-2","tag-joe-williams","tag-sketchbook","tag-usa"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1ed1x-bAw","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":521,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2009\/10\/05\/teenage-beast\/","url_meta":{"origin":44548,"position":0},"title":"Teenage Beast","author":"Joe_Williams","date":"October 5, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"Another sketchbook variation of the Teenage Beast A.K.A. 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