This was my final for Visual Storytelling 1. We had to do an autobiographical comic with emotional impact, which reminded me of a script I had done for Comic Book Scripting. After cutting the script down from 8 pages to 3, I had what would become “The Snake.”

This was based on a real event from when I was about 10. There really was a snake in the woodpile, but it almost definitely wasn’t a rattlesnake. My dad did shoot it, but the emotional trauma was added to heighten the story. The longer script had something about how both the snake and my dad were both just protecting their homes and kids (the snake was to have eggs in the woodpile).

I got really into the white ink splatter on these last two pages. Also, drawing scales is a nightmare. I learned a better technique after the fact, but that was too late to help me on this one. Live and learn I guess.