Presidential Prowess

So this time around it’s John Struan of SuperPunch’s turn! As coincidence would have it, both of our book clubs are reading Abe Lincoln: Vampire Hunter. So, it was my pleasure to draw our sixteenth president messing up a couple of vampires.

Does this look rough to you? I kind of took a break from everything for the past few days. I guess it’s more appropriate to say that I just read three novels in the past week and decided not to do anything but. It was an odd challenge to convince myself to draw. Intellectually I know that I love the crap out of drawing, but when it came to doing it….I just nestled up with a good book instead.

Whatever, I’m back on the wagon now and ready to educate you on history: Abe Lincoln carried a sawed-off shotgun in his absurdly large hat. That’s not true to events in the book, but seriously, why else would any 6’4″ man need such a big hat? TO HIDE A GUN IN IT. The sketch was supposed to be him pulling the sawed-off out on attacking vampires while standing on his desk in the oval office but…yeah, I’m lazy.

It seems like the vampire is going to get the better of our intrepid hero- or so you would think! Abe’s badassery will save the day once again. What was that? You’re saying that that doesn’t seem at all correct? Look, just because the guy was taken out at point blank range with a measly derringer does not mean that he could hold his own against a vampire. ‘Sides, the situations totally different. Booth waited until the funniest line in Our American Cousin to shoot ’em.  Try to keep your guard up with the most knee-slappin’-good-time-circa-1965 going on in front of you. I have no idea what this facial expression says, but I love it anyway.