Seth gave me this delightful picture of a girl riding a jellyfish a long time ago: maybe it was when he was still living in the Oki Islands (before 1998), I don't remember exactly. I wouldn't say that he drew it on account of his knowledge of Winsor McCay, but when I found the picture by McCay below it reminded me of this one by Seth.I have spoken here before about how much he loved the ocean and its denizens. He may have encountered jellyfish while he was diving, and pictured a pleasurable--not stinging--relationship between a girl and a really big jellyfish, something he could do in a fluid, curving, poetic, neo-Art Nouveau sort of manner.
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Lots of (non-stinging) jelly action there. Very cool drawing.
The McCay is straight-up whacky!
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