Happy Birthday to Stan and Ford!
At long last, I have completed the Sea Grunks and the Jersey Devil sequence that I've been working on / meaning to do since... oh, must be 2017.
At that time, I took some prompts, and got one from @ancientouroboros that was "the Stans rescue a cryptid or forest animal". This was the idea I had for it. In 2018 I did the first version of the selfie pic that comes at the end. In 2022 I did a piece for the Gravity Falls 10 Years Later zine, that I meant as a sequel to this not-yet-done sequence. (Last August I did a piece for Dipper & Mabel's birthday meant to be set right before meeting with the Jersey Devil on top of the lighthouse.) And for Halloween I got done the first two panels of the 6 I had planned. Now, at last, it's all together.
I've always liked the idea of Stan and Ford making friends with their own home-state cryptid.
A repeat of some background info on this piece below the cut:
