A Belated Sequence of Hurricane Art Posts

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I said I would be posting all the dumb hurricane drawings I did over the past year in August and...well I'm running out of August days, so here it is.
Of course, it goes without saying that Hurricane Dorian is perhaps the most important topic right now, so if you're not in the mood to see historical storms depicted as deceptively cute cartoon characters, feel free to avoid my art like the plague.

Anyhoo, here we go...

The first set of drawings depicts scenes from that "Harvey Diaries" story I posted on this site last year. They cover scenes in the story from when Hurricane Harvey has dissipated and ascended to the spirit world, and interacts with the spirits of other storms from the past.


Harvey encounters the ghost of the 1991 Perfect Storm in his nor'easter form. The Perfect Storm offers to help Harvey undergo extratropical transition, but really all he wants to do is devour Harvey like he did to Hurricane Grace in the real world.


Harvey is overwhelmed by awe and terror after getting rescued from certain death by the spirit of Hurricane Carla.


This leads to Harvey and Carla undergoing some mild flirting. If you want to know what hurricane flirting looks like, it mostly involves splashing each other with their storm surges, making fun of the hot air expelled from each others' bodies, and just kind of falling asleep together under the tropical sunlight. Nothing too sophisticated.

And yes I am guilty of drawing a hurricane farting in the second panel...there's context in the story for this, but uh...yeah. I thought I made this whole concept up completely but then this appeared last year:

so I don't know what to believe anymore.

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Next up is a series of drawings where I asked the stupid question: "If you could shrink down a hurricane so it was small enough to fit in the ocean, how would it swim?"

Would it be like a frisbee?...


...Or like a propeller?


I feel the horizontal orientation of the frisbee configuration would be more realistic given it is how hurricanes are normally oriented (insofar as a sentient hurricane can be called "realistic" lmao) but I think propeller looks way funnier.

While we're at it, why not make the propeller configuration have the inflow face forward, so it's like some sort of jet engine? Assuming these are northern hemisphere hurricanes, then their orientation would be reversed:

You lay another spiral band on Camille and I will decouple you!

...These are the miniature/chibi forms of my characters for the 1935 Labor Day hurricane and the 1900 Galveston hurricane respectively. If you read the "Harvey Diaries" story, you'd know 1900 is a little special in that he can bleed when his clouds are sheared, but that he is also a bad dude even by hurricane standards and so totally had this coming.

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The final set of images that are from this year specifically are from late May when there was all that severe weather (tornadoes, supercells etc.) hitting the entire country at once.

I drew this:


and this:


...The second one has 1900 again trying to intimidate a miniature/chibi supercell, which then...uh...*plops* a hailstone in stress.

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Finally here's a very very bad gif of my mini Labor Day character just sort of rotating in place and glaring admonishingly at someone. I sort of threw this together haphazardly and didn't really realize the stray marks were left over.

I know the helmet staying stationary while his body moves looks weird, but this is honestly how I imagine the hurricane characters' "hats" to work. The clouds and wind just sort of rotate under and through them while the hat stays stationary.

[AnnularCane]

Thanks for posting this! I've seen most of these on your website already, but since I'm not on Tumblr myself I can't really "like" or comment on anything over there. I apparently have a thing for hurricane and other weather comics, I guess. I especially like those three grouped pictures of Harvey and Carla, especially the third one. They just look so content! (Is it wrong to say they make an adorable couple?)

1900 must be pretty bad if he can intimidate a supercell.

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Thanks for posting this! I've seen most of these on your website already, but since I'm not on Tumblr myself I can't really "like" or comment on anything over there. I apparently have a thing for hurricane and other weather comics, I guess. I especially like those three grouped pictures of Harvey and Carla, especially the third one. They just look so content! (Is it wrong to say they make an adorable couple?)

1900 must be pretty bad if he can intimidate a supercell.

You've been following my website? Stalker!...(just kidding). So presumably that means you've the seen the Hurricane Andrew interviews and the one with the guy riding the supercell?

As far as Harvey and Carla making a cute couple, Carla really would be happier with Harvey than with 1900, but she ends up sticking around 1900 because she thinks she can change him someday...somehow. She's kind of stubborn in that manner.

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So kind of a toxic relationship, I guess?

Ha! Well, you DID post a link to it on here before, and of course that's where the "Harvey Diaries" story is, and it didn't take long to discover the Archive link... Yes, I saw that, and the Andrew interviews. I thought Andrew bore an amazing resemblance to a South Park character in the first interview.

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So kind of a toxic relationship, I guess?

Ha! Well, you DID post a link to it on here before, and of course that's where the "Harvey Diaries" story is, and it didn't take long to discover the Archive link... Yes, I saw that, and the Andrew interviews. I thought Andrew bore an amazing resemblance to a South Park character in the first interview.

I have a huge backlog of comics of these characters I have yet to color, and I also have a series of written stories with them I hope to publish once I am done with my PhD.

They're in a setting where they've been summoned back from the spirit world to work together as partners with humans who are fighting to keep the balance between humanity and the planet. The "Harvey Diaries" is sort of a prequel to this world.

1900 and Carla's relationship is toxic in both directions. 1900 basically keeps trying to kill any humans he sees and Carla stops him by beating him up with her far greater strength.

As far as Andrew's personality being like a South Park character, he's supposed to be the stupidest out of all the hurricanes, and basically causes destruction by sheer obliviousness. He thinks he is helping.

[AnnularCane]

Oh, actually I meant Andrew looked like a South Park character. But yes, he did seem rather naive, I guess? Or kind of dim? He's kind of cute though. I like those little sweat bands he wears...is that what those are?

That's cool, hopefully I'll be able to read those stories someday! I guess you can't post them on your website though, right? Although I think you posted an excerpt or something once.

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Oh, actually I meant Andrew looked like a South Park character. But yes, he did seem rather naive, I guess? Or kind of dim? He's kind of cute though. I like those little sweat bands he wears...is that what those are?

That's cool, hopefully I'll be able to read those stories someday! I guess you can't post them on your website though, right? Although I think you posted an excerpt or something once.

Yeah Andrew wears tiny sweat bands because he heard they “wick away moisture” and therefore thought they would help him be less destructive. He also sometimes is seen wearing Cuban flags and Che Guevara berets because a Cuban exile saw him do this and pointed and yelled at him, and he took this to mean they liked him.

Andrew probably thought all the people writing his name in their damaged roofs and plywood shutters were his fans.

As far as posting the stories I hope to publish, yeah, I’d rather not share those in their entirety until I get the the chance to do that. But first I want to publish this science fiction novel I am working on that takes place in a quasar galaxy. I figure sentient stars and black holes will be easier for people to accept than hurricanes as 3/4 of the protagonists.

[AnnularCane]

Awwwww... Well, sounds like his heart is in the right place anyway!

I figure sentient stars and black holes will be easier for people to accept than hurricanes as 3/4 of the protagonists.

Just out of curiosity, have you been given grief about that before?

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Awwwww... Well, sounds like his heart is in the right place anyway!

I figure sentient stars and black holes will be easier for people to accept than hurricanes as 3/4 of the protagonists.

Just out of curiosity, have you been given grief about that before?

OOOOH YES...Most people who've survived hurricanes in my experience don't mind, but a few do get put off by it.

The worst though are the people who get offended on behalf of people who have been through hurricanes, and loudly proclaim to speak for them, but have never actually experienced any themselves.

[AnnularCane]

The worst though are the people who get offended on behalf of people who have been through hurricanes, and loudly proclaim to speak for them, but have never actually experienced any themselves.

Or those who seem to think that even just having a fascination with hurricanes is bad. I've seen that on this forum occasionally. I actually find it kind of refreshing to see hurricanes depicted as something other than evil beings bent on destruction, which seems to be the common viewpoint, so I don't mind the protagonist thing at all (you might wonder why I even care, and I'm not sure I could tell you why if you asked).

But good luck with eventually publishing your stories, and try not to let anyone give you too much grief.