Don’t mind me, folks. Just having an existential crisis.

For those of you who live in the Eastern United States, are you sick of cicadas yet? They were cool when they first came out, but now they keep flying into my car, latching into my hair, and making so much noise that my family has to yell if we want to be understood outside.

People often ask me, “AK, what kinds of mermaids are out there?” (They ask me this because they know I minored in mermanthropology and have an encyclopedic knowledge of all things mermaid and mer-made.)

Let’s continue the mermaid theme this month with this parody of one of my favorite paintings in the National Gallery of Art: Watson and the Shark by John Singleton Copley.

It’s May again, which means I finally get to draw the mermaid-related Ben & Winslow comic ideas that have been kicking around in my head since *checks calendar* seven days ago. So let’s get started, shall we? Ben and Winslow even have a boat in this one!