On New Year’s Day, I started this drawing of Bigfoot in my sketchbook. The mysterious ape has made sporadic appearances in my artwork over the years, which now has the effect of making me nostalgic for the great woods of the Pacific Northwest. For this Sasquatch design, I combined physical features of orangutans and gorillas, plus longer legs and humanoid feet. Gigantopithecus is a primate related to orangutans that lived in China during the Early to Middle Pleistocene. Cryptozoologists hypothesize that this ape still lives today as the elusive Sasquatch and Yeti. I don’t know if Bigfoot is a real animal, but it’s certainly real as an enduring folklore character. I recall how Alan Moore said, “The one place in which gods and demons inarguably exist is in the human mind, where they are real in all their grandeur and monstrosity.”
Stephen Bissette and I have plans to create a short comic featuring Bigfoot, his script, my artwork. And it has got to happen because he prepaid me for some pages!
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