The Pen Monster Blog

A collection of heavily filtered iPhone photos, which was the style at the time. These were people I knew in Japan. I only kept in tough with a couple of them via FaceBook but once I deleted my account that was the end of that.

I have a bunch of pics of students being cute as well. I might post more of them up at some point because even the youngest of them would be spotty high school students by this point. They'd be unrecognizable now. Kids grow fast.

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Backdating tells me that the first batch of kids I taught in Gangnam would be in their 20s and 30s now. I like to hope that they look back on their behaviour in that hagwon with a lot of shame. They were some little shits.

They were all rich, so I doubt they ever developed a sense of shame.

As I've been going through The Lost Vault of Images I've been fighting the urge to retool comics ideas from literally decades ago and use what I already made as a first draft for something new and current.

This one, Pictou the T-rex, ran in my university newspaper in the 90s. It was about a T-rex being reincarnated into a more humble form in order to earn a second chance from the Earth Mother and avoid eternal damnation. Spoiler: It was really about me needing a hand. People are more aware and responsive to those needs now. Good on yah, Zoomers!

I figure that, of all of them, this is the one that might have the best chance in 2024. The others have 90s humour and 90s perspectives that did not age well at all.