Behind the scenes at "Schoolmaster's Comeuppance" (Patreon)

My latest post, "Schoolmaster's Comeuppance" has a very personal history.

It relates to what a very dear, now departed friend, told me about his childhood experiences. This friend grew up in Basel, which is a German-speaking part of Switzerland but has its own local dialect. When my friend started school, he had to learn the official German language ('Urdeutsch') and it was like learning a foreign language! I can confirm that 'Baseldeutsch' looks and sounds quite strange to people like me who have only learnt Urdeutsch. And to add to my friend's schooldays misery, he had a very strict teacher called Herr Rot, whose name literally meant 'Mister Red', who was living up to his name by handing back to students exercise books copiously red-pencilled! So I was thinking very much of all that while drawing and writing.

For the figure of 'Herr Rot' standing in a corner, I used as a basis one of the many photographs I saw on DeviantArt of a very inventive fetish photographer who went by the name of 'Devo' (full name 'devoisback'). This man (in fact, this quite hot mature man, according to my standards) was able to craft very evocative scenes using only himself as a model and his back yard and garage as settings. I haven't seen new work from him for a few years so my using a very hot photograph of him standing naked in a corner like an errant schoolboy is a way of paying homage to his work.