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Spectra - 11x15", Watercolor on paper, 2022.

Started with the prompt, "Gorgon," and wanted to paint sunbeam snakes :)

Painted for "Mystical Rhythms," a @wowxwow group show.

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Inktober 2024: Medusa

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Medusa's Morning Coffee, because sometimes all a cranky morning needs is a lil' sippy

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Ray Harryhausen making Medusa for Clash of the Titans - 1981

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You get called over to the children’s section of your store. A father is surrounded by onlookers and is frantically asking questions and begging for help. He says to you “Look I know that my child is half human, but I’m trying to do my best. I just need the right soap and hairbrush!”

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Well, here’s the finished piece.

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Medusa head made of jade by L’aquart

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VividShadows 2024 Day 5 - Kintsugi

"Well hey, it's a good thing you were already sculpted right? Heh-"

"Shut up. I can't believe they make clumsy gorgons."

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Two Legends, WIP. The Minotaur is as done as he's getting. Working on Medusa now.

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The Minotaur in his Labyrinth

Roman mosaic

Conímbriga, Portugal

3rd century CE

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Two Legends. Digital. WIP

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Medusa

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I feel like it’s cruel to put Athena and Medusa in proximity like this, even in the form of casino games.

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Prices for an Asterion and a House will be under $150; more details to come. Website is www.highwater-studio.com. They're not listed yet because I just took the photos.

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“Whatever happened to T-shirt Medusa?” by J. Richmond

Whew. 60 panels in 3 days. This is the longest “24 Hour comic” I’ve ever done (And of course it doesn’t count as a 24 Hour Comic at all because it took 3 days). As a point of reference, I usually do 8 Modest Medusa strips each month. So this is 15 comics worth of panels, or about 2 whole months of Modest Medusa strips.

This one is a deep dive. 6 or 7 years ago I launched a “t-shirt of the month” project created the character “T-shirt Medusa” to promote it. T-shirt Medusa starred in a few promotional strips that appeared in 2016 and 2017, where she would mysteriously show up to taunt Modest (the main character of my comic) into buying a shirt (I incorporated two of those strips into this comic). I had kind of sort of thought I’d maybe offer a canonical explanation for this someday, and that thought eventually turned into this comic. Obviously not canon.

This comic is more about me and my uncertainties, fears and anxiety over the last few years than anything else, but I think maybe a lot of you can find something relatable here. I came up with the idea for this comic during the most recent Modest Medusa Kickstarter when I thought that project wasn’t going to fund and I suddenly realized I had no idea what I was going to do with myself if I couldn’t make a living doing Modest Medusa anymore after 12 years. The project did fund, but that feeling of dread has lingered. I’ve decided to try to learn from it.

This comic takes its name from the classic Superman story “Whatever happened to the Man of Tomorrow?” It was created for the new 48 Hour Modest Medusa book. Which is available now on my site.

No plans for new t-shirts. Well… maybe. More Modest Medusa here.