iguanas on the subway

(BORING BUSINESS: i'm back. i apologize for the fact that i haven't posted in awhile. i was in the middle of changing web hosting services and there were some glitches. it's come to my attention that i'm not always receiving emails. (last week i got an email from a woman i went to highschool with. she sent it 3 years ago! hell, i lived in texas and had long hair back then.) believe me that's more frustrating than you can possibly imagine. the point i'm making is: if i didn't respond to you, i'm sorry, i may never have received it. the other reason would be i don't like you but that's rare. i like you. BRIAN@BRIANYANISH.COM will always be my email address. but if for some crazy, world wide web mishap it gets bounced back, please tell me by sending an email to my back-up email address: BYANISH@MAC.COM. thank you, this is not the information i intended for this blog.)

when i was riding the subway late at night a few months ago, i saw this young guy slouching in his seat across the way, falling asleep. he had so much gel in his hair that it spiked up really high. quite frankly he reminded me of an iguana and naturally the image of an iguana on the subway seemed amusing to me, so i jotted a quick sketch and a few notes for further development. i'm really just avoiding drawing people by switching from monsters to anthropomorphic animals. recently, i've gone back to this idea and developed it into a story.
and i'm really excited about this one.

the cryptic text (yes, i know i write small) from my sketchbook reads: "I saw an iguana on the subway. He was big and scaly and he took up 2 seats just like that. 3 people almost tripped over his long green tail but he didn't seem to care. He just blinked, scratched his belly and went back to napping right there on the subway. The only time he moved was to share his seat with a rhinoceros but nobody believes me. About the rhinoceros I mean."