The Walking Not-Yet-Dead Chomo schoolmaster

MODELS: My models were the last known photograph of an extremely emaciated inventor and physicist Nicola Tesla, a cone snail siphon and barb, an extreme cranial-facial cancer victim in the end-stage of his disease and a dead squid's eye.

LOCATION: Rendered at Florence and Coolidge, Arizona in 2019.

INSPIRATION: The collective "Living Dead" old franchise and new franchise films plus the "Walking Dead" graphic novels and multiple TV series franchises. Artist auteurs were emulated by me to include Tom Savini, George A. Romero, Frank Darabont, Steven King, and a host of other creative geniuses to include Kevin Yeager, the creator of HBO's "The Cryptkeeper" as inspired by EC Comics' "The Old Witch, The Cryptkeeper," and the old "Gravedigger."

INSPIRATION: The post-apocalyptic comic book series "The Walking Dead" was created by writer Robert Kirkman and artist Tony Moore – who was the artist on the first six issues and cover artist for the first twenty-four – with art on the remainder of the series by Charlie Adlard.

INSPIRATION: One of my inspirations for making my not-quite-but-almost-a-zombie a child-abusing school master came from Roger Waters' lyrics for Pink Floyd's "The Wall." I bought the record and attended the concert in the LA Coliseum in 1979. The model was Croatian-born Dr. Nicola Tesla (1856-1943) in his malnourished last days.

A nearly homeless and alone Nicola had been previously destroyed by his rival "American Titan" William Stanley for Westinghouse and Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931) who stole the applied invention of the electrical Alternating Current (1886) from the man and had been subsequently abandoned by former colleagues at the old Command Intelligence Group (CIG), the FBI and the US Department of War.

It was wartime, and the time of the "Philadelphia Experiment" in Philadelphia's outer harbor regarding a certain escort destroyer known as the original USS Eldridge and everybody from Edison to the US military-industrial complex had mined Tesla's brain, mathematics and spirit and had subsequently discarded him the way a large, flying insect cicada bug sheds it's exoskeleton prior to flying and mating.

INSPIRATION: The Daleks created by the original Showrunner Terry Nation and BBC Designer Raymond Cusick from "Dr. Who" all the way back in 1963 and H.P. Lovecraft's the "Lovecraft Mythos," his Cthulhu Mythos," and the entire dark aether alien daemonic motif.