Lio by Mark Tatulli for September 23, 2017

There just had to be a cyclops passing by

Wait… One-eyed, one-horned, flying purple people-eater? Ah, okay, it’s not a colorful day, so I guess it’s been downgraded to a baggage handler.

It is take a monster to school day. Or maybe show and tell day.

I will name him “Mule”.

The civilizing effects of hard work.

Sometimes Lio reminds me of Little Nemo in Slumberland

Looks very much like one of the aliens on Tatooine in A New Hope.

I think I detect some Matt Groening influence. That last panel looks like Homer finally radically mutated.

I definitely see some Ray Harryhausen influence in the design. That horn especially. see the cyclopes of Colossa island. “7the Voyage of Sinbad”.

Lio is always good at making new friends and pets of the most unlikely sort. And this one even carries his backpack!

Where the wild things roam