Mister Boney Comforts an Unfortunate Soul

This is a small pen and ink drawing on archival cotton rag paper. Mister Boney is a character who occasionally appears in my drawings, usually to offer ghastly, existentially perilous advice in a weirdly upbeat fashion. I've lately begun to suspect that he is, perhaps, an alter ego made from my own skeleton. Here, he expresses a rare moment of tenderness.