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Redux., originally uploaded by 顔なし.

Just so you know we aren’t dead or anything. Mike is doing stuff every week at Foxy Lollop, and even though his wikipedia entry has been deleted his ego is still as big as ever, and if you were worried about it I’m actually pretty sure it inflated it a bit, if you can believe it. I sure can’t. Oh yeah did everyone remember his birthday? It was like… two months ago… I sure didn’t. I hope someone signed my name to the card we were all getting him. Did you guys do that? Is anyone here? Is this thing on. Well anyway, this is my belated birthday card to the big guy, if he’s still out there somewhere making webcomics. Which he is. At Foxy Lollop.

So in my son’s 2nd grade class, any child who finishes up his assigned work faster than the others can get to doing a little personal project. It can be anything from reading to drawing to crafting. Anything. My son has pulled out some pretty fun stuff out of these down periods, but nothing quite as amazing as this.

It’s a drawing inspired by the song The Crane Wife (Part One) by The Decemberists. If you have never heard it, the song is based on a Japanese fairy (folk?) tale of a man who finds an injured crane in the dead of winter, nurses it back to health, only to find that it’s a shapeshifter which he marries.

It’s folded in the middle and all crumply, like any good eight year old’s drawing should be.

It’s important to note two things:

1) There was no parental guidance in this at all. He did it in school and I was just as surprised as anyone to see the end result.

2) We listen to The Decemberists a lot, at home.

I guess, in a way, this is my son’s first true piece of fan art. May his geekdom be long and fruitful.

There is a higher resolution image of the drawing at my Flickr area.

I guess my recent contacts with the VampireFreaks.com community inspired me.