I’m making new work for an upcoming exhibit at Museo Archeologico Nazionale dell’Umbria in Perugia. I didn’t draw Hercules in my Inferno as we don’t “see” him. It’s just Dante and Virgil talking. So I’m making a 3 tier comic page, with Virgil speaking words that Dante wrote (INF XI 66-69) with the third line to be added when the drawing is solid. I’m stealing from Jack Kirby’s Green Arrow for Hercules. Dante listens to Virgil as he imagines the scene.

Since the start of my Commedia, I connected illuminated Manuscripts and comics (both tell a story with words and pictures.) I drop as many comics references as I can get away with. Wally Wood’s 22 Panels That Always Work was foundational.

It's too perfect a description of much of the Divine Comedy, in Wally Wood’s words (One part doesn’t fit), “...or some interesting ways to get some variety into those boring panels where some dumb writer has a bunch of lame characters sitting around and talking for page after page.”