Lio by Mark Tatulli for June 03, 2010

Sorry, you’re too scary….

Meeting your literary heroes can be intimidating.

OOH! So much for being an Icon superstar.

Hey! you were great in Pinocchio.

Poor Monstro! Don’t cry Monstro.

Aw, you’re just spoutin’ off! We don’t want to hear any blubberin’! He thought it was a successful book, but it was just a fluke. So shut your blowhole!

Little buggers! Scared of Monstro?! Whose autograph were they expecting?

Lio is so soft-hearted…he should bring Ishy down to console Monstro…

I don’t get the Pinocchio reference.

In the Disney film Monstro swallowed Gepetto so Pinocchio has to rescue him doing that he becomes a real boy. In the book a dogfish swallows them.

Monstro was the first thing that ever scared me or made me cry in the movies.

I was 3.

And, uh - whose signature? Monstro’s? Lio’s? Carlo Collodi’s? Mark Tatulli’s?

Just make sure Monstro doesn’t bump into Ishmael,

Poor Monstro :(

Doctor Toon, with his Waterman pen?

No Gulf comments. No Gulf comments.

Life’s a beach when they don’t want you around, right, Monstro?

baslim Nice reference to the song in 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.

awww. a whale w a tear in his eye? makes me whimper a little.

Monstro is the Prince of Whales…so I suppose the little peasant children were intimidated?

@ Ash Monstro is the whale that eats Pinocchio when he tries to escape the island of Jackass children.

GEE1A: one and done.

What was everyone carping about? Doesn’t the big guy have the right to flounder on the beach if he wants to? It’s not like he’s making the plaice all crappie.

Never mind, Monstro; you have Lio’s seal of approval.

Have a heart, folks, whales are people too!

Oh, wait, they’re not… well, Whales are Mammals, too!

And Monstro went and beached himself for it too! How’s he ever going to get off?

Aww! Life is tough on authors…

Sometimes you have to get here at the stroke of midnight, or the thread is done. “Whale blubber”, heh.

Monstro only pawn… in game of life.

Bwaaaa, Monstro straight!

Yeah, that happens at my book signings too.

So SAD - really! I’m tearing up a little!