The Last Daily Monster

It has been a joy to follow Stefan Bucher's Daily Monster project. Yesterday he posted his hundredth monster, the final one in the series, and it's a special one (I also really liked the toothy penultimate monster). In his comments, Stefan writes:

I started this project on November 19th as a way to pass the time while a few publishers were mulling over a book I had proposed to them --- just a little something to keep my mind off of things. I thought that some of my friends might enjoy it and check in every once in a while, but within a few days I was getting lovely comments from all of you.

Here's more information on the book, Upstairs Neighbors, including the whole thing as a PDF. I'd certainly buy it (along with some cool Upstairs Neighbors merchandise).

P.S. I was looking around for information the the Daily Monster process, and found this answer from Stefan in the comments to monster 23:

Let me give you some answers to your tech questions: I use Yasutomo brand sumi ink, regular old Sharpie pens with fine and chisel tips, Faber-Castell PITT artist pens, Staedler HB pencils, and Tombo ABT Acid Free felt tip pens for color. I blow the ink with a fine cocktail straw.

The camera (a Sony Cybershot DSC-P200) is in front of me, mounted on a small tabletop tripod. It's tilted down towards the paper. Sometimes I draw rightside up and flip the image in Quicktime. Other times, I actually draw the Daily Monster upside down, so it appears in the correct orientation in the clip without any further processing.

My lighting is pretty poor, so I usually amp up the brightness and contrast a bit in Quicktime.

And that's all there is to it.