Deep Dark Fears #178

No place, 2015. Original illustration for Deep Dark Fears, Fran Krause's popular crowd-sourced series of comics: "I try not to pick my nose while driving. / I worry that I'd get into a crash, / and I'd fatally poke my brain, / and everyone would know how I died." Animator and cartoonist Krause first depicted his own fears as a webcomic on his 2011 Tumblr page. Eventually, readers began submitting their own fears, from embarrassing death scenarios to moments of existential dread, which Krause collected into a 2015 book and a 2017 sequel, The Creeps. A fine example. Watercolor and ink on paper, measuring 12 x 9 inches (sheet size). Signed and dated 5-11-2015 in ink; captioned "Deep Dark Fears #178" and signed again in pencil to lower right margin.