Joan WIlder Art: Pete LePage

Pete LePage (who also co-hosts Comic Book Club, which is pretty awesome, and I hope anyone who got my Gil Kane and Jack Kirby references in the Sean post, checks Pete's show out), originally wanted to be a dragon. Which is a cool idea, but it's tough to take a regular dude and turn him into a dragon. Not to mention that it doesn't fit stylistically with a bunch of people dressed as people-as-things or people-as-people. So he had to revise his choice to "Pete in a dragon costume". Which is much better.

His reference photo:

In all fairness, he did have a dragon pose photo, but this was much more in keeping with the style. That style being onions tied to your belt.

 Then I had to find a dragon costume. Didn't take long for that:

You can buy this costume here. I don't know where you can buy that child.

So then we needed a background. Pete's was the toughest. Originally, I was thinking a castle on fire, like in the great movie Reign of Fire. Then I realized a) that movie is terrible and b) I was already doing a village on fire for Beth.

So I went with a more placid scene, using Neuschwanstein castle in Germany. There are many lovely photos of that lovely castle. I can't be bothered to find the specific one I used. So here's this one:

It's no Castle Grayskull, but it'll do.