Bone Boy Billy

 If you've read previous BTB and character profiles then you know this series has been gestating for a long, long time. During that time I had a few stops and starts with where to begin our tale. How you start your story is important and I had a few different ways to start Billy's. Here, we're going to recollect all the times that Billy almost got his first storyline. To be clear, by storyline I mean multi-part/page story arc.. While I had various ideas of how to start Bone Boy Billy, I ended up deciding to go with a series of character vignettes to start us up. Working as more of an introduction to each specific character I wanted to focus on. You could sort of call this a mini-arc like "Meeting the family" or something along those lines, but each comic is it's own separate story. Now there was also the four part story where Billy learns to toughen up a little, but I'd consider that a mini-arc again. No, by our first storyline I'm talking several part...

  Every good guy has his dark reflection. Billy is no different, with the wicked smart and dangerous Maximillion the vampire. While Max hasn't been in the works as long as some other characters, he's still just as important to the overall story of Bone Boy Billy going forward and deserves a proper profile.  Full Name: Maximillion Von Tesh Age: 113 Favorite Food: Blood, duh Theme Song: Bat Out of Hell by Meatloaf Abilities: Vampiric summoning, flight, hypnotism. History: Max was a normal vampire prince in the late 1800's when the House of Dracula fell. It splintered the vampire community and many famous houses fled around the world for safety. Max's family was one of them, only at some point during the trip his coffin was lost and found by hunters. They staked poor young Max and his father, in his grief, had him buried in the small town of Serling where they stayed for a while before buying land in the South to live.  Max was dead for a hundred years until Zindy's sp...

  That's all for now, folks!

  Remember, kids, rich people suck. That applies to me, too, if I become rich somehow then I will, in fact, suck.

  Important lore bit in that opening line. 

  It started with an ending. Unfortunate news hit the world that on January 16th, 2025, the world got a little less colorful and strange. David Lynch passed away. Nothing will ever be the same without him. I wouldn't be the same person without his work. It's influenced me and countless other artists on deeply personal levels.  Like so many before me, I turned my grief into a drawing. I doodled my Bone Boy Billy as an agent of the FBI making a humorous recording for Diane. After that I watched a lot of Youtube videos about Lynch and his work and ended up re-watching the first season of Twin Peaks. Along with watching some of his films I'd never seen before like Blue Velvet, Mulholland Drive and Eraserhead.  I was incredibly inspired watching Lynch's work and wanting to find some way to pay homage to it. I'd already been struggling thinking of what would be the focal point for this year's Halloween special. I revisited the doodle of Agent Billy and suddenly I had ...