Vermont Monster Guide Extravaganza!

The Connecticut River Monster, in its natural habitat—the riparian areas of the Connecticut and White Rivers. Reconstruction by Steve Bissette, 2009, c.e.

On First Friday, 4th September, 2009, from 7 PM to 9 PM:

You’ll want to head over to the Main Street Museum (a short walk from CCS) for more Vermont Monster Guide original art — and to see one or more of the real Vermont Monsters that appear in the book on display!

SEE! The Connecticut River Monster’s Mortal Remains!!!

SEE! The Fantastic Fur-Bearing Trout!!!

SEE! Miniature Replica of The Lake Champlain Monster ‘Champ’ in All Its Glory!!!!

SEE & HEAR! Monster Hunter & Monster Maker Tell All — Live! Live!! Live!!!

Yep — there will be a live Citro & Bissette Vermont Monster Guide slide lecture at 7:30 PM at the Main Street Museum, followed by Q&A –

They Walk! They Talk! They Speak the Unspeakable & Show the Unshowable!! They Crawl on Their Bellies Like Reptiles!!!

Oh, wait, no, we don’t do that.

But — you’ll want to see & hear it all! Don’t be late!

Main Street Museum director David Fairbanks Ford describes the Connecticut River Sea-Monster in a lecture given at the University of Vermont, 2000, c.e.

For as long as there have been fisher-folk, and contact with the ocean, there have been Sea Monsters.

Cover of the Vermont Monster Guide, University Press of New England, 2009.

References and Links

See Monsters as only a Master of Comics could draw them here at Steve Bissette's own htmlpage!

and see Joe Citro's blogspot page here!