Preparing for SGR25 pt 2
I mentioned yesterday that I am contemplating making a 1000-piece jigsaw puzzle to commemorate my 25th comics anniversary. The barrier to this is my high standard of jigsaw picture appreciation and the commensurate effort and personal skill required to hit that standard. I want a lot of little people. I want a lot of textures to aid construction of largely homogenous zones. I don't want a lot of sky. I want a little story in there. I want some structures. I want some repetitive elements. I once did a puzzle of a big horse's face and I almost went mad. This cannot be a big horse face situation.
The first stage of the process is to think about all the little people. I want to encompass all characters who have been important to Scary Go Round stories over the last quarter century. Which means I had to draw them all while watching TV. I just needed to see them all at once, but little. These are not the drawings I will use on the puzzle, they're just a reference. Some characters appear twice, to represent different epochs. Note, I ran out of space for the cast of "Destroy History" and a few others, but I've made a note of those.
Perhaps, then, it will amuse some of you to try to identify everyone on my big grid of 128 tiny characters. Bear in mind that some of them have probably not been drawn very well!
There you are. Something to occupy your Sunday.
Comments (22)
Are 105 and 106 meant to be Dean and Ingrid?
I think so!!
Bumping this through the roof
Make it so.
Am I missing Mad Terry & his mum, or are they in there somewhere?
I was wondering that, too, but I didn't want to start posting "Where is (insert character name)?" posts. It's quite an accomplishment, and it's not as if John could have included everyone. Still, it does seem as if Mad Terry should be there somewhere...
I will smash the "buy" on this so fast.
If it has Moon and a wendigo, I'm in.
Wasn't that an old romance comic series? "A Moon, A Wendigo... Romance"!
I'd love to see a puzzle! SGR-related arts & crafts has been a weird passion of mine. (Full confession: When bestselling instant-classic rhythm game Rock Band 3 first came out for the XBox 360, I spent way too much time crafting characters to look like members of the SGR crew. Every once in a while, I get the urge to dig out the old plastic-guitar controllers and play a set with that band, which I lovingly named "The Tackleford Empire." And then I remember the arthritis.)
This is lovely, Matt. I used to really enjoy the little SGR-based game avatars people would send me - there were some hilarious Sims based on them.
count me in for a puzzle!
There I am! (102)
I demand justice for Friend-Bat, the most ill-advised pet (after a baby wendigo).
Comrade Bat just wasn't the same.
Excellent
I would LOVE a 1,000 piece SGR puzzle! 🤩🧩
Are there... 3 Lotties? That's a lot of Grote.
I think I can identify most of them, if not by name than by general description (i.e., what story they were in and what they did there and whatnot). But the only one that's important is #35 anyway, right?
Wow!
I would like an SGR puzzle 🙂
Marvellous