4/4 Seaguy Week! Maps and Legends

SEAGUY WEEK ETERNAL!

April sweet is coming in!

Let the Feast of Fools begin!

Who knew?

Seaguy week outgrew its little virtual terrarium and is now running around the room chasing the red dot from a laser pointer!

It’s official! Seaguy is a hit! TOO LATE!

Hooray!!!

As a result of the overwhelming demand for more and yet more Seaguy shit, the Management has decided that our exclusive Spring Salon will be relocated to NEXT WEEK which looks very comfortable indeed, what with tropical plants, seaweed, the elements etc – so look out for that!

Seaguy soundtrack: Ducks on a Pond by the Incredible String Band. Andrew Marvell and John Donne greatly influenced the story I’m doing with artist Hayden Sherman for DC Pride 2023 and The String Band did Musickal Metaphysical Poetry better than anyone in those ‘way out’ hippy ‘60s! This was one of several songs that set the tone and emotional texture for Seaguy Eternal (another is Syd Barrett’s cracked farewell to the Floyd in Jugband Blues).

SEAGUY ETERNAL – THE MAP

Reproduced below are the final three pages of the SEAGUY ETERNAL #1 script ‘Return of Robomonkey’. The 3-part story was based around a voyage to the bubble-gum heart of darkness, so it seemed important to include a map.

One of my favourite comic book stories growing up was Bala the Briton from the UK weekly comic Jet. Devised in the fantastical vein of Ray Harryhausen’s Jason and the Argonauts it had seafaring Britons rather than Greeks up against giants, and monsters. They had a map at he start, as I recall, so you could see where our intrepid adventurers might be heading next, with the mind-melting promise of the Bay of Skulls or Dragon’s Maelstrom to contend with in the weeks ahead!

This was a bit of that crossed with Jack Kirby’s incredible dream-map of Kamandi’s post-apocalyptic world from Kamandi #1 1972.

LAB artefact #016

Do not reproduce without permission or else…paper cuts between the toes.