Skippy

By Tim

If you’ve never read the online comic strip “Sluggy Freelance,” you don’t know what you’re missing. My good friend Chuck is the person who got me reading it, and I’ve been hooked ever since. Chuck’s working on the main characters as customs, but I thought in the meantime it would be fun to work on some of the strip’s villains as a gift for Christmas.

Skippy is a parasitic demon who “infects” the mind of this (apparently) helpless man. Often you will see a lump of slime on his shoulder, who is in fact the “real” Skippy. In this body, he has the power to turn his arms into gushing slime. I made Skippy from a Nightwing head, Flash torso, Mattel Joker legs, and hands from a 5” X-Men Sabretooth, with Sculpey filled in from shoulder to wrists. I sculpted Flash’s torso to look more like a shirt, with vinyl at the bottom. Everything else is paint.

For more information on Skippy and “Sluggy Freelance,” visit www.sluggy.com