Feep sketch from New York Comic Con 2011

This is from last October, and I am posting it now because I am just that organized, o yes! I stole the markers of a tablemate to do this one, but I think from now on it would be wise for me to keep a red marker as well as a black in my con pen bag.

Road Feeps - Coil Horn Cyclops observes the George Washington Bridge

Viewed from Fort Tryon Park, it is the very bridge that takes one (and one's feeps) out of New York and into New Jersey, en route to Newark Airport, not but a couple of hours after this photo was taken. Adieu!

Road Feeps - Coil Horn Cyclops at the Cloisters in Manhattan

What to think about a door that is simply labeled "known point," and then tightly shut? One has to assume that, along with transporting the stones and artifacts of European cloisters to New York, they also inadvertently transported a few of the resident ghosts or demons. You know, the sorts of things that can't be destroyed, but have to be sealed with wards behind thick doors, and are spoken of only in hushed whispers for centuries. Oopsie!

Road Feeps - Coil Horn Cyclops at the Cloisters in Manhattan

A portcullis only really works, of course, if your average horde can't fit through the openings. Prepare to be overrun by tiny monsters, o Cloisters.

Road Feeps - Coil Horn Cyclops at the Cloisters in Manhattan

Evidently you need a portcullis to keep out the barbarian hordes from lower Manhattan.

Road Feeps - Coil Horn Cyclops at the Cloisters in Manhattan

Nestled within Fort Tryon Park is a collection of buildings known as The Cloisters, a mashup of several medieval buildings imported from Europe by one of New York's eccentric rich people (one John D. Rockefeller, Jr., perhaps you've heard of him). There's a museum inside, but sadly we were there on a Monday and the museum is closed Mondays, so we had to content ourselves with wandering around the outside.

Road Feeps - Coil Horn Cyclops in Fort Tryon Park, Manhattan

This archway, just so you know, leads you to a parallel universe.

Road Feeps - Coil Horn Cyclops in Fort Tryon Park, Manhattan

Nary a skyscraper or a gigantic billboard in sight.

Road Feeps - Coil Horn Cyclops at Fort Tryon Park, Manhattan

The next several photos are of our intrepid little Coil Horn Cyclops friend running around Fort Tryon Park in upper Manhattan. It's an impressive landscape of quiet greenery in a city known mostly for its buildings and its bustle.

Road Feeps - Coil Horn Cyclops and art deco grate in Manhattan

This grate protects a public utility building in a section of Manhattan that was clearly built up in the 1920s. All the buildings around there have this kind of style. Makes one feel a bit as though one is walking through a certain Fritz Lang film.

Road Feeps - Orange Round with New York fauna

This feep manages to find a dwelling in Manhattan that's the right size for the price.

Road Feeps - Red & Black Coil Cyclops at Riverside Cathedral in Manhattan

Just around the corner from ol' Grant's place is this ornate edifice.

Road Feeps - Red & Black Coil Cyclops at Grant's Tomb

Feels a bit like sneaking around the dragon.

Road Feeps - Tentacle Larva at Grant's Tomb

It is, according to the posted information, the largest mausoleum in the United States. We got there right as it was closing, so only had but a moment to peek inside. It was rather interesting to contrast Grant's Tomb with the mausoleums in Mt. Auburn Cemetery (where we had just been), and which until now had seemed impressively elaborate and ornate.

No, for this you gotta be more than just rich.

Road Feeps - Von Snoot and statue in Sakura Park, Riverside, NYC

That's the Riverside Cathedral peeking through in the background. I don't know who this statue represents. It was cordoned off with caution tape, and a sign alerted one of an apparently vicious wasp nest. So the feeps and I observed from afar.

Road Feeps - Feep Snail in Manhattan

The snail wishes to know what these apartments rent for, but is mildly afraid of large numbers, and thus refrains.

Road Feeps: Bat Necklace looms over Manhattan

Swooping down over Grant's Tomb and Riverside cathedral to appropriate accompaniment.