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Dancing Bear Short Short Story

Once upon a time, in a fantastic and magical land, a brown bear learned to dance. His reward was a collar and a leash. And the instant the collar was slipped over his head, all the whimsy and wonder in the land evaporated and was never seen or heard from again.

Image: A dancing bear performing in the United States, c. 1900, from the Hugh Mangum Archives.

Final sketch for Badger Boy

Portrait of Troy Nickle as Badger Boy.

While attending a recent Dr. Sketchy's event, Troy Nickle showed me a photograph he had taken of himself in his skivvies. While I instantly remarked that I thought he looked like Bobby Hill, my next thought was that I desperately wanted to transform the image into Badger Boy. It seems to be a logical progression from the idealised masculinity in the Buckheads to portray the flawed and vulnerable body given character by the addition of an animal head chosen to convey the specifics of the individual portrayed.