Here's a work in progress that I work on every chance I get some time to myself, which - unfortunately hasn't been that often as of late. I have been mega into classic, old skool monsters as of late and am working on a whole series of um' to send out around halloween as leave behinds, post cards, send outs - all that professional jazz. I'll post up the final, all inked all colored version a dis when itz all done
So here's Frankenstein in all his sewn together, horrid corpse of a body glory. A pretty big misconception in the original Mary Shelly story is that the Victor Frankenstein's monster is named "Frankenstein" - when, in reality, it's creator never gave his abhorred, wretched creation an actual name. As soon as it sprang to life, Victor was stricken with illness that forced him to be bed ridden for months, and only occasionally did he awake, hot and wet with fever, to catch glimpses of the monster in his maddening fever. Forever plagued by guilt, Frankenstein escapes only to spite his creator the rest of his mortal life - wishing only to be treated as a human being. Frankenstein somewhat embodies the idea of "original man" - as Mary Shelly states that in a twisted, modern way the monster is "adam", who is innately "good" - and only commits evil deeds out of the evil of society and circumstance. But - like most tragic stories, Frankenstein is driven to commit murder and acts of atrocity out of a longing to be loved by his misguided and weak master - a flawed perfection from a flawed genius.
I have ALWAYS loved Frankenstein since I was a kid - I used to have this Ghost Busters toy that when you squeezed its legs, the big green Prometheus would raise its arms zombie style and his mouth would fly open revealing bright 90s colored purple gums and rotten yellow teeth. A fond memory of ancient kid-dom is also playing regular nintendo with my little brother - playing the game "monsters in my pocket". You could be either Nosferatu or "the Monster", which was Frankenstein. Mad props to the 80s design team that decided to use the character in the right context of the original story.
Maybe I love Frankenstein because he's a huge, 8 foot tall animated corpse with the strength of twenty men, nasty - rotten hair and sewn together limbs. Maybe I love the monster because he makes me remember how rad the game Monster In My Pocket was, and Ghostbusters, and bein a kid with my brother and laughing and drinking a ton of cherry coke on a Saturday afternoon.
Or maybe - I love Frankenstein because I love the humanity of the story. A creature so ugly, so powerful and so vile, putrid and disgusting - brought to life against its will with a miss mash of other people's body parts. A hulking behemoth of dead flesh and rotting, never to heal wounds and sores - and the only thing the monster ever craved was a lover. At one point in the story, the monster begs Victor Frankenstein to create a woman for him - molded in his same image so the monster could escape forever, and leave behind the world of man and live his, perhaps immortal (because Frankenstein's monster is in itself already dead) life in some ancient, self made "garden of eden" with a equally unloveable and horrid partner.
what can I say, I get moved when I read about re-animated corpse love as a literary allusion to the story of adam and eve. Call me a hopeless romantic
"Did I request thee, Maker from my clayTo mould Me man? Did I solicit theeFrom darkness to promote me?"Milton, Paradise Lost
here's the end product for the new SEE YOU NEXT TUESDAY tee design. I cranked this mother out in three days, because they had a wednessday (tomorrow morning) deadline to meet. 
