Happy Thanksgiving to U.S. peeps! I hope the day is a good one and as stress-free as possible, given… everything.
Last year around Halloween I first did a piece with Stan and Ford encountering these Cornstalk Men while traveling in New Jersey. I’d wanted to do a sequel, but wasn’t able to get it done for this year’s Halloween. But, the Cornstalk Men, while undeniably eerie, are certainly a Harvest Spirit kind of a deal, so Thanksgiving seems like an appropriate time to visit with them. (In fact, I had intended to do a whole background for this, basing it on the Corn Maze location that the gang visited in Roadside Attraction, on the theory that Stan and Ford got an introduction to the Oregonian Cornstalk Men from their NJ bretheren…. but obviously I didn’t manage that. Ah well.)
I can’t take credit for the pun of Dipper’s sweater. I was googling for ideas and a bunch of shirts in that vein popped up, and I knew immediately that I had to use it.
Of course I paid a visit to the originals in October:
I would usually link to the past Cornstalk Men posts, but because Tumblr is being a butt about linking right now, I will instead say that if you go to this post on my blog, you can hit the “cornstalk men” tag to see the previous posts. (Including an explanation behind these things.)
Late, but here’s a Tgiving commemorative post from 2018. I still kinda like this. I should do more with the Cornstalk Men at some point. Alas, I did not get to see them this year; I think they’ll be gone by the time I go down there around Xmas.
