(Just what has Stubb been smoking??)
I remembered that several of my Moby-Dick pieces have not been posted to this site, so here's one of them. A more experimental work, featuring Stubb hyena, Ahab wolf, and the merman(-atee). This is based on Stubb's surreal dream in chapter 31, but also incorporates quotes from his encounter with Ahab in chapter 29 and his soliloquy in chapter 39. The whole ordeal of Stubb's transformation fits well into my Ahab werewolf metaphor, as the captain—turned animal by Moby Dick—proceeds to transform his crew into wild beasts as well. The figure of the merman is also strongly indicative of this book's blurring of human-animal boundaries, and possibly representative of Stubb himself, or what he must become (part-animal and part-inanimate tool (marlinspikes)) to go along with Ahab.
(Will probably roll out some of my other Moby-Dick pieces here later, in between Wuthering Heights pieces, and then I'll be preparing OC art for Art Fight. Good ol' summer break!)
