creature comforts

created during inktober, 2018 & as part of my ongoing art/history series, i couldn't resist the opportunity to illustrate the magnificent boris karloff. i seized the day in order to celebrate something that means the world to me. 200 years ago, in 1818, mary shelley's 'frankenstein' was published for the first time (disgracefully, not under her own name). although her story has never been given the cinema treatment it bloody well merits, in 1931, karloff embodied the creature as no one else can. he had said that he had a great fondness for the character & it's obvious that he understood the emotional fragility & alienation that lay at the core of shelley's baby. there was something vulnerable in his eyes. do you see it?