"Anton" by Troy's Work Table. Carport chalking for Friday 02 January 2015.
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I've been thinking about the monstrous a lot lately. Monsters are everywhere.
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Goya's Saturn Devouring his Son. Picasso's Minotaur, in his various guises. Groot from Guardians of the Galaxy. ("I am Groot!") The various indifferent amoebic jellies of the Cthulhu Mythos—Shub-Niggurath, Yog-Sothoth, Cthulhu, et cetera. The Deep Ones. The beasts of the Old Testament—Behemoth and Leviathan. The beasts of the New Testament—the Beasts, the Four Horsemen, the Dragon. Jormungandr, world serpent, and his brother Fenris the Wolf. Grendel. Polyphemus the Cyclops. And so on.
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Anton is a troll (for lack of a better term to describe him) from The Nightingale's Stone by David Mecklenburg (and featuring Ada Ludenow).
Anton is illustrated in the novel, by the author, but I still decided to try my hand at him (only by referring to the text).
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I like Anton's "old world" monstrousness. He isn't a monster of the modern age—infecting or irradiating or driving one mad. No, Anton is a monster of story and song and appetite. He wants to eat. He needs to feed. He wants to play with his food for a while before he eats it. He wants to stave off his loneliness, even if only momentarily.
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You can see more of "Anton" HERE.
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