Just as I was a little late with my Halloween photos in yesterday's post (hey, time's fluid in my mind, OK?!?), I'm equally late with this superb drawing of characters from my Cirque Du Freak books, by a fan called Coro, which was drawn in the run-up to October 31st. I think Coro captured the characters perfectly -- Harkat's so cute! Mr Tiny's so scary! -- and the composition is wonderful. The only sliver lining in the temporal cloud that I can offer up in my own defense is that if I'd shared this with all of you back around Halloween (which, OK, I'll admit I should have done), you wouldn't be able to enjoy and be amazed by it for the first time TODAY, would you?!? :-)

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