Astro Gator Number 18

Matthew Thiele
1 min readOct 7, 2023

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Original art by Matthew Thiele

Undated. I forgot to put a date on this one. It was obviously published between 3/20/03 and 3/28/03. I was pretty scrupulous about initialing and dating these, so this is unusual. Something must have been going on for me not to notice, but trying to remember after 20 years is futile.

I thought it would be interesting for the space station to have different facilities of different sizes to accommodate large and small creatures, but I don’t really develop that idea very much beyond this one strip. I thought it might have been inspired by Wall-e, but it turns out that it was released 2008, so that’s not possible.

I love Astro Gator’s face in the first panel. He looks tough. I got the eyes just right.

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Matthew Thiele
Matthew Thiele

Written by Matthew Thiele

Independent scholar and satirist. Published in Slackjaw, Points in Case, McSweeney’s, Ben Jonson Journal, and other fine publications.

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