the awesome power of the caterpillar's hookah
Bench #977. I love this strip, and it kept me up till 5am working on it. I knew it would be much harder than any I'd done previously. So many selected regions and layers and colorizations and special effects! There have been plenty of previous Bench strips with drug-inspired special effects, but none with a classical literary allusion like this or as much varied detail. I put in obsessive perfectionist touches like removing Alice's hair below the mushroom in the middle frame when it's Gabe's head. If I were to do this one again, I'd make the squirrel's mouth line up with the smoke blowing out, which I didn't notice till I was done. The floating skulls are from Red Meat and are a reference to many previous Bench strips that have used them.
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