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Here's a preview of my piece for the upcoming "Seasons: A Gravity Falls Zine"!

You can still order the zine HERE, @gf-seasons-zine - ordering is open through November 21st!

Here's a preview of my piece for the upcoming "Seasons: A Gravity Falls Zine"!

You can still order the zine HERE, @gf-seasons-zine - ordering is open through November 21st!

Stan and Ford and the Cornstalk Men - an update!

The Cornstalk Men are a fall tradition that I've missed seeing in person for the past couple of years. I first did this sequence where Stan and Ford encounter these New Jersey... beings? cryptids? creatures?... back on Halloween of 2017. Decided on the spur of the moment to update them; 5 years is a long time in art evolution! Below is some of the original text and other links.

In October of 2017, I first posted about encountering these giant cornstalk men while driving on a minor highway through New Jersey farmland.  Although I didn’t go into it at the time, I was driving on a really grey day with fog persisting through the morning, turning the surrounding fields and distant trees into ethereal vistas.   Which made coming upon these faceless giants all the more eerie, despite it being a busy highway (and them basically being roadside advertising for a garden center.)

Some folks commented suggesting that these were propitious figures, forest spirits (or… spirits of the field, I guess?) or otherwordly sacrifices for a good harvest.   Sure!  Why not. As I said before, this seems like some major Over the Garden Wall shit happening right here.

(As noted in the original post, these things are gigantic. Those are novelty giant Adirondack chairs, They've got to be at least 10 feet tall, even sitting down.)

It seemed like just the kind of thing that Ford would insist they go investigate!  

Though, he and Stan were never very familiar with the more farm-oriented parts of New Jersey.  Stan is obviously dubious about the whole thing; including after the Cornstalk Men show up.  As it turns out, they’re perfectly friendly, if a bit inscrutable, and happy to at least try to answer Ford’s questions before whatever fate awaits them on All Hallow’s Eve. (The original version was posted on Halloween.)

BONUS:

(Stan has already fucked off across the road to a farm stand where they are selling five different types of pie. He is less interested in witnessing eldritch harvest rituals, and more interested in making sure he keeps them both on schedule for the Skype call later to see what the niblings have dressed up as this year.)

I did eventually do a sequel, in GF style, in which they do bring Dipper and Mabel to meet the Cornstalk Men. (That was posted on Thanksgiving 2018, which is why I now associate these posts with Tgiving.) And here is the original version, from 2017.

Anyway -- hope everyone's day has been as good as it can be. I know the holidays can be stressful for a lot of people. I'm about to heat up some dinner, and begin my now-annual rewatch of Over the Garden Wall.

From Thanksgiving 2022.

Happy Thanksgiving! (click to embiggen!)

Happy Thanksgiving to U.S. peeps!  I hope the day is a good one and as stress-free as possible, given… everything.  

Last year around Halloween I first did a piece with Stan and Ford encountering these Cornstalk Men while traveling in New Jersey.  I’d wanted to do a sequel, but wasn’t able to get it done for this year’s Halloween.  But, the Cornstalk Men, while undeniably eerie, are certainly a Harvest Spirit kind of a deal, so Thanksgiving seems like an appropriate time to visit with them. (In fact, I had intended to do a whole background for this, basing it on the Corn Maze location that the gang visited in Roadside Attraction, on the theory that Stan and Ford got an introduction to the Oregonian Cornstalk Men from their NJ bretheren…. but obviously I didn’t manage that.  Ah well.)

I can’t take credit for the pun of Dipper’s sweater. I was googling for ideas and a bunch of shirts in that vein popped up, and I knew immediately that I had to use it.

Of course I paid a visit to the originals in October:

I would usually link to the past Cornstalk Men posts, but because Tumblr is being a butt about linking right now, I will instead say that if you go to this post on my blog, you can hit the “cornstalk men” tag to see the previous posts.  (Including an explanation behind these things.)

From 2018.  

(Link to the original Cornstalk Men piece referred to above.)

And *now* with a link to an updated version of the Sea Grunks meet the Cornstalk Men, redone in 2022.

Well, that’s not ominous at all.

(What you have to appreciate about these… things… is that they are at least 10 feet tall, while sitting down?  They’re huge.  They LOOM.  I know it’s hard to tell with the trees in the background but the one on the left is raising its right hand in a sort of… greeting? Hey there, humans.  Where you going in such a hurry? Why don’t you come sit a spell?  This is some Over the Garden Wall shit right here.)

(Context-wise, these are on Rt. 202 in New Jersey, not far from the Delaware River, at the front of Rutgers Landscape and Nursey; the kind of garden shop where you can buy plants and trees and, at this time of year, pumpkins and I’m sure they’d sell you corn stalks to do whatever you want with, such as create enormous ominous Cornstalk Men to watch over your neighbors or whatever.  I had passed this place before and seen the two gigiantic yellow adirondack chairs, and wondered.  Now I know what they’re for.)

OH HEY GUESS WHAT THEY LIGHT THEM UP AT NIGHT.  Yeah, that’s just great.  Because I’m sure this stretch of highway, which runs through farm fields, is completely pitch dark at night, too. (This is NOT my photo; I just found it while trying to confirm the name of the place.)

Clearly these are royals of some manner of forest spirit. And they are lovely! 💕💕💕

Hmmm.

Hmmmmmmmmm.

(I mean, I did kind of think that they strike me as a sort of New World John Barleycorn deal.)

(Original posts from October 2017)

Stan and Ford and the Cornstalk Men - an update!

The Cornstalk Men are a fall tradition that I've missed seeing in person for the past couple of years. I first did this sequence where Stan and Ford encounter these New Jersey... beings? cryptids? creatures?... back on Halloween of 2017. Decided on the spur of the moment to update them; 5 years is a long time in art evolution! Below is some of the original text and other links.

In October of 2017, I first posted about encountering these giant cornstalk men while driving on a minor highway through New Jersey farmland.  Although I didn’t go into it at the time, I was driving on a really grey day with fog persisting through the morning, turning the surrounding fields and distant trees into ethereal vistas.   Which made coming upon these faceless giants all the more eerie, despite it being a busy highway (and them basically being roadside advertising for a garden center.)

Some folks commented suggesting that these were propitious figures, forest spirits (or… spirits of the field, I guess?) or otherwordly sacrifices for a good harvest.   Sure!  Why not. As I said before, this seems like some major Over the Garden Wall shit happening right here.

(As noted in the original post, these things are gigantic. Those are novelty giant Adirondack chairs, They've got to be at least 10 feet tall, even sitting down.)

It seemed like just the kind of thing that Ford would insist they go investigate!  

Though, he and Stan were never very familiar with the more farm-oriented parts of New Jersey.  Stan is obviously dubious about the whole thing; including after the Cornstalk Men show up.  As it turns out, they’re perfectly friendly, if a bit inscrutable, and happy to at least try to answer Ford’s questions before whatever fate awaits them on All Hallow’s Eve. (The original version was posted on Halloween.)

BONUS:

(Stan has already fucked off across the road to a farm stand where they are selling five different types of pie. He is less interested in witnessing eldritch harvest rituals, and more interested in making sure he keeps them both on schedule for the Skype call later to see what the niblings have dressed up as this year.)

I did eventually do a sequel, in GF style, in which they do bring Dipper and Mabel to meet the Cornstalk Men. (That was posted on Thanksgiving 2018, which is why I now associate these posts with Tgiving.) And here is the original version, from 2017.

Anyway -- hope everyone's day has been as good as it can be. I know the holidays can be stressful for a lot of people. I'm about to heat up some dinner, and begin my now-annual rewatch of Over the Garden Wall.

Stan and Ford and the Cornstalk Men - an update!

The Cornstalk Men are a fall tradition that I've missed seeing in person for the past couple of years. I first did this sequence where Stan and Ford encounter these New Jersey... beings? cryptids? creatures?... back on Halloween of 2017. Decided on the spur of the moment to update them; 5 years is a long time in art evolution! Below is some of the original text and other links.

In October of 2017, I first posted about encountering these giant cornstalk men while driving on a minor highway through New Jersey farmland.  Although I didn’t go into it at the time, I was driving on a really grey day with fog persisting through the morning, turning the surrounding fields and distant trees into ethereal vistas.   Which made coming upon these faceless giants all the more eerie, despite it being a busy highway (and them basically being roadside advertising for a garden center.)

Some folks commented suggesting that these were propitious figures, forest spirits (or… spirits of the field, I guess?) or otherwordly sacrifices for a good harvest.   Sure!  Why not. As I said before, this seems like some major Over the Garden Wall shit happening right here.

(As noted in the original post, these things are gigantic. Those are novelty giant Adirondack chairs, They've got to be at least 10 feet tall, even sitting down.)

It seemed like just the kind of thing that Ford would insist they go investigate!  

Though, he and Stan were never very familiar with the more farm-oriented parts of New Jersey.  Stan is obviously dubious about the whole thing; including after the Cornstalk Men show up.  As it turns out, they’re perfectly friendly, if a bit inscrutable, and happy to at least try to answer Ford’s questions before whatever fate awaits them on All Hallow’s Eve. (The original version was posted on Halloween.)

BONUS:

(Stan has already fucked off across the road to a farm stand where they are selling five different types of pie. He is less interested in witnessing eldritch harvest rituals, and more interested in making sure he keeps them both on schedule for the Skype call later to see what the niblings have dressed up as this year.)

I did eventually do a sequel, in GF style, in which they do bring Dipper and Mabel to meet the Cornstalk Men. (That was posted on Thanksgiving 2018, which is why I now associate these posts with Tgiving.) And here is the original version, from 2017.

Anyway -- hope everyone's day has been as good as it can be. I know the holidays can be stressful for a lot of people. I'm about to heat up some dinner, and begin my now-annual rewatch of Over the Garden Wall.

Stan and Ford and the Cornstalk Men - an update!

The Cornstalk Men are a fall tradition that I've missed seeing in person for the past couple of years. I first did this sequence where Stan and Ford encounter these New Jersey... beings? cryptids? creatures?... back on Halloween of 2017. Decided on the spur of the moment to update them; 5 years is a long time in art evolution! Below is some of the original text and other links.

In October of 2017, I first posted about encountering these giant cornstalk men while driving on a minor highway through New Jersey farmland.  Although I didn’t go into it at the time, I was driving on a really grey day with fog persisting through the morning, turning the surrounding fields and distant trees into ethereal vistas.   Which made coming upon these faceless giants all the more eerie, despite it being a busy highway (and them basically being roadside advertising for a garden center.)

Some folks commented suggesting that these were propitious figures, forest spirits (or… spirits of the field, I guess?) or otherwordly sacrifices for a good harvest.   Sure!  Why not. As I said before, this seems like some major Over the Garden Wall shit happening right here.

(As noted in the original post, these things are gigantic. Those are novelty giant Adirondack chairs, They've got to be at least 10 feet tall, even sitting down.)

It seemed like just the kind of thing that Ford would insist they go investigate!  

Though, he and Stan were never very familiar with the more farm-oriented parts of New Jersey.  Stan is obviously dubious about the whole thing; including after the Cornstalk Men show up.  As it turns out, they’re perfectly friendly, if a bit inscrutable, and happy to at least try to answer Ford’s questions before whatever fate awaits them on All Hallow’s Eve. (The original version was posted on Halloween.)

BONUS:

(Stan has already fucked off across the road to a farm stand where they are selling five different types of pie. He is less interested in witnessing eldritch harvest rituals, and more interested in making sure he keeps them both on schedule for the Skype call later to see what the niblings have dressed up as this year.)

I did eventually do a sequel, in GF style, in which they do bring Dipper and Mabel to meet the Cornstalk Men. (That was posted on Thanksgiving 2018, which is why I now associate these posts with Tgiving.) And here is the original version, from 2017.

Anyway -- hope everyone's day has been as good as it can be. I know the holidays can be stressful for a lot of people. I'm about to heat up some dinner, and begin my now-annual rewatch of Over the Garden Wall.

Happy Thanksgiving! (click to embiggen!)

Happy Thanksgiving to U.S. peeps!  I hope the day is a good one and as stress-free as possible, given… everything.  

Last year around Halloween I first did a piece with Stan and Ford encountering these Cornstalk Men while traveling in New Jersey.  I’d wanted to do a sequel, but wasn’t able to get it done for this year’s Halloween.  But, the Cornstalk Men, while undeniably eerie, are certainly a Harvest Spirit kind of a deal, so Thanksgiving seems like an appropriate time to visit with them. (In fact, I had intended to do a whole background for this, basing it on the Corn Maze location that the gang visited in Roadside Attraction, on the theory that Stan and Ford got an introduction to the Oregonian Cornstalk Men from their NJ bretheren…. but obviously I didn’t manage that.  Ah well.)

I can’t take credit for the pun of Dipper’s sweater. I was googling for ideas and a bunch of shirts in that vein popped up, and I knew immediately that I had to use it.

Of course I paid a visit to the originals in October:

I would usually link to the past Cornstalk Men posts, but because Tumblr is being a butt about linking right now, I will instead say that if you go to this post on my blog, you can hit the “cornstalk men” tag to see the previous posts.  (Including an explanation behind these things.)

From 2018.  

(Link to the original Cornstalk Men piece referred to above.)

And *now* with a link to an updated version of the Sea Grunks meet the Cornstalk Men, redone in 2022.

Well, that’s not ominous at all.

(What you have to appreciate about these… things… is that they are at least 10 feet tall, while sitting down?  They’re huge.  They LOOM.  I know it’s hard to tell with the trees in the background but the one on the left is raising its right hand in a sort of… greeting? Hey there, humans.  Where you going in such a hurry? Why don’t you come sit a spell?  This is some Over the Garden Wall shit right here.)

(Context-wise, these are on Rt. 202 in New Jersey, not far from the Delaware River, at the front of Rutgers Landscape and Nursey; the kind of garden shop where you can buy plants and trees and, at this time of year, pumpkins and I’m sure they’d sell you corn stalks to do whatever you want with, such as create enormous ominous Cornstalk Men to watch over your neighbors or whatever.  I had passed this place before and seen the two gigiantic yellow adirondack chairs, and wondered.  Now I know what they’re for.)

OH HEY GUESS WHAT THEY LIGHT THEM UP AT NIGHT.  Yeah, that’s just great.  Because I’m sure this stretch of highway, which runs through farm fields, is completely pitch dark at night, too. (This is NOT my photo; I just found it while trying to confirm the name of the place.)

Clearly these are royals of some manner of forest spirit. And they are lovely! 💕💕💕

Hmmm.

Hmmmmmmmmm.

(I mean, I did kind of think that they strike me as a sort of New World John Barleycorn deal.)

Stan and Ford and the Cornstalk Men - an update!

The Cornstalk Men are a fall tradition that I've missed seeing in person for the past couple of years. I first did this sequence where Stan and Ford encounter these New Jersey... beings? cryptids? creatures?... back on Halloween of 2017. Decided on the spur of the moment to update them; 5 years is a long time in art evolution! Below is some of the original text and other links.

In October of 2017, I first posted about encountering these giant cornstalk men while driving on a minor highway through New Jersey farmland.  Although I didn’t go into it at the time, I was driving on a really grey day with fog persisting through the morning, turning the surrounding fields and distant trees into ethereal vistas.   Which made coming upon these faceless giants all the more eerie, despite it being a busy highway (and them basically being roadside advertising for a garden center.)

Some folks commented suggesting that these were propitious figures, forest spirits (or… spirits of the field, I guess?) or otherwordly sacrifices for a good harvest.   Sure!  Why not. As I said before, this seems like some major Over the Garden Wall shit happening right here.

(As noted in the original post, these things are gigantic. Those are novelty giant Adirondack chairs, They've got to be at least 10 feet tall, even sitting down.)

It seemed like just the kind of thing that Ford would insist they go investigate!  

Though, he and Stan were never very familiar with the more farm-oriented parts of New Jersey.  Stan is obviously dubious about the whole thing; including after the Cornstalk Men show up.  As it turns out, they’re perfectly friendly, if a bit inscrutable, and happy to at least try to answer Ford’s questions before whatever fate awaits them on All Hallow’s Eve. (The original version was posted on Halloween.)

BONUS:

(Stan has already fucked off across the road to a farm stand where they are selling five different types of pie. He is less interested in witnessing eldritch harvest rituals, and more interested in making sure he keeps them both on schedule for the Skype call later to see what the niblings have dressed up as this year.)

I did eventually do a sequel, in GF style, in which they do bring Dipper and Mabel to meet the Cornstalk Men. (That was posted on Thanksgiving 2018, which is why I now associate these posts with Tgiving.) And here is the original version, from 2017.

Anyway -- hope everyone's day has been as good as it can be. I know the holidays can be stressful for a lot of people. I'm about to heat up some dinner, and begin my now-annual rewatch of Over the Garden Wall.

Happy Thanksgiving! (click to embiggen!)

Happy Thanksgiving to U.S. peeps!  I hope the day is a good one and as stress-free as possible, given… everything.  

Last year around Halloween I first did a piece with Stan and Ford encountering these Cornstalk Men while traveling in New Jersey.  I’d wanted to do a sequel, but wasn’t able to get it done for this year’s Halloween.  But, the Cornstalk Men, while undeniably eerie, are certainly a Harvest Spirit kind of a deal, so Thanksgiving seems like an appropriate time to visit with them. (In fact, I had intended to do a whole background for this, basing it on the Corn Maze location that the gang visited in Roadside Attraction, on the theory that Stan and Ford got an introduction to the Oregonian Cornstalk Men from their NJ bretheren…. but obviously I didn’t manage that.  Ah well.)

I can’t take credit for the pun of Dipper’s sweater. I was googling for ideas and a bunch of shirts in that vein popped up, and I knew immediately that I had to use it.

Of course I paid a visit to the originals in October:

I would usually link to the past Cornstalk Men posts, but because Tumblr is being a butt about linking right now, I will instead say that if you go to this post on my blog, you can hit the “cornstalk men” tag to see the previous posts.  (Including an explanation behind these things.)

Late, but here’s a Tgiving commemorative post from 2018.  I still kinda like this. I should do more with the Cornstalk Men at some point.  Alas, I did not get to see them this year; I think they’ll be gone by the time I go down there around Xmas.

The original Sea Grunks meet Cornstalk Men post from 2017. The original Cornstalk Men Sighting post.

Happy Thanksgiving! (click to embiggen!)

Happy Thanksgiving to U.S. peeps!  I hope the day is a good one and as stress-free as possible, given… everything.  

Last year around Halloween I first did a piece with Stan and Ford encountering these Cornstalk Men while traveling in New Jersey.  I’d wanted to do a sequel, but wasn’t able to get it done for this year’s Halloween.  But, the Cornstalk Men, while undeniably eerie, are certainly a Harvest Spirit kind of a deal, so Thanksgiving seems like an appropriate time to visit with them. (In fact, I had intended to do a whole background for this, basing it on the Corn Maze location that the gang visited in Roadside Attraction, on the theory that Stan and Ford got an introduction to the Oregonian Cornstalk Men from their NJ bretheren…. but obviously I didn’t manage that.  Ah well.)

I can’t take credit for the pun of Dipper’s sweater. I was googling for ideas and a bunch of shirts in that vein popped up, and I knew immediately that I had to use it.

Of course I paid a visit to the originals in October:

I would usually link to the past Cornstalk Men posts, but because Tumblr is being a butt about linking right now, I will instead say that if you go to this post on my blog, you can hit the “cornstalk men” tag to see the previous posts.  (Including an explanation behind these things.)

From 2018.  

(Link to the original Cornstalk Men piece referred to above.)

Happy Thanksgiving! (click to embiggen!)

Happy Thanksgiving to U.S. peeps!  I hope the day is a good one and as stress-free as possible, given… everything.  

Last year around Halloween I first did a piece with Stan and Ford encountering these Cornstalk Men while traveling in New Jersey.  I’d wanted to do a sequel, but wasn’t able to get it done for this year’s Halloween.  But, the Cornstalk Men, while undeniably eerie, are certainly a Harvest Spirit kind of a deal, so Thanksgiving seems like an appropriate time to visit with them. (In fact, I had intended to do a whole background for this, basing it on the Corn Maze location that the gang visited in Roadside Attraction, on the theory that Stan and Ford got an introduction to the Oregonian Cornstalk Men from their NJ bretheren…. but obviously I didn’t manage that.  Ah well.)

I can’t take credit for the pun of Dipper’s sweater. I was googling for ideas and a bunch of shirts in that vein popped up, and I knew immediately that I had to use it.

Of course I paid a visit to the originals in October:

I would usually link to the past Cornstalk Men posts, but because Tumblr is being a butt about linking right now, I will instead say that if you go to this post on my blog, you can hit the “cornstalk men” tag to see the previous posts.  (Including an explanation behind these things.)

From 2018.  

(Link to the original Cornstalk Men piece referred to above.)

Well, that’s not ominous at all.

(What you have to appreciate about these… things… is that they are at least 10 feet tall, while sitting down?  They’re huge.  They LOOM.  I know it’s hard to tell with the trees in the background but the one on the left is raising its right hand in a sort of… greeting? Hey there, humans.  Where you going in such a hurry? Why don’t you come sit a spell?  This is some Over the Garden Wall shit right here.)

(Context-wise, these are on Rt. 202 in New Jersey, not far from the Delaware River, at the front of Rutgers Landscape and Nursey; the kind of garden shop where you can buy plants and trees and, at this time of year, pumpkins and I’m sure they’d sell you corn stalks to do whatever you want with, such as create enormous ominous Cornstalk Men to watch over your neighbors or whatever.  I had passed this place before and seen the two gigiantic yellow adirondack chairs, and wondered.  Now I know what they’re for.)

OH HEY GUESS WHAT THEY LIGHT THEM UP AT NIGHT.  Yeah, that’s just great.  Because I’m sure this stretch of highway, which runs through farm fields, is completely pitch dark at night, too. (This is NOT my photo; I just found it while trying to confirm the name of the place.)

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!  - Sea Grunks and the Cornstalk Men (please click to embiggen!)

The other weekend I posted about encountering these giant cornstalk men while driving on a minor highway through New Jersey farmland.  Although I didn’t go into it at the time, I was driving on a really grey day with fog persisting through the morning, turning the surrounding fields and distant trees into ethereal vistas.   Which made coming upon these faceless giants all the more eerie, despite it being a busy highway (and them basically being roadside advertising for a garden center.)

Some folks commented suggesting that these were propitious figures, forest spirits (or… spirits of the field, I guess?) or otherwordly sacrifices for a good harvest.   Sure!  As I said before, this seems like some major Over the Garden Walls shit happening right here.

It seemed like just the kind of thing that Ford would insist they go investigate!  

Though, he and Stan were never very familiar with the more farm-oriented parts of New Jersey.  Stan is obviously dubious about the whole thing; including after the Cornstalk Men show up.  As it turns out, they’re perfectly friendly, if a bit inscrutable, and happy to at least try to answer Ford’s questions before whatever fate awaits them on All Hallow’s Eve.

Bonus:

(Stan has already fucked off across the street to a farm stand where they are selling five different types of pie.  He is less interested in witnessing eldritch harvest rituals, and more interested in making sure he keeps them both on schedule for the Skype call later to see what the niblings have dressed up as this year.)

Happy Thanksgiving! (click to embiggen!)

Happy Thanksgiving to U.S. peeps!  I hope the day is a good one and as stress-free as possible, given… everything.  

Last year around Halloween I first did a piece with Stan and Ford encountering these Cornstalk Men while traveling in New Jersey.  I’d wanted to do a sequel, but wasn’t able to get it done for this year’s Halloween.  But, the Cornstalk Men, while undeniably eerie, are certainly a Harvest Spirit kind of a deal, so Thanksgiving seems like an appropriate time to visit with them. (In fact, I had intended to do a whole background for this, basing it on the Corn Maze location that the gang visited in Roadside Attraction, on the theory that Stan and Ford got an introduction to the Oregonian Cornstalk Men from their NJ bretheren…. but obviously I didn’t manage that.  Ah well.)

I can’t take credit for the pun of Dipper’s sweater. I was googling for ideas and a bunch of shirts in that vein popped up, and I knew immediately that I had to use it.

Of course I paid a visit to the originals in October:

I would usually link to the past Cornstalk Men posts, but because Tumblr is being a butt about linking right now, I will instead say that if you go to this post on my blog, you can hit the “cornstalk men” tag to see the previous posts.  (Including an explanation behind these things.)

From 2018.  

(Link to the original Cornstalk Men piece referred to above.)