I am starting an encyclopedia of characters so you can get to know them better. Think if it as their ‘online personals’. I will do one a week for a while.

I am starting with Singing Snake since he is probably my oldest creation. I started drawing him way way back when Beka, my oldest, was in elementary school (late 80s). Her teacher had a pet boa that she let stay with a different family over the summer every year. We got to keep the snake (named Spot) one summer. I loved it.

Plus a snake had great connotations and meanings to everyone, always something to interpret when you have a snake in your art! Oh, and can there be an easier thing to draw?

Many decades later ‘Singing Snake’ is an old friend, filling my need for song and commentary and meaning and innuendo and feelings.

Drawing © Marty Coleman