Like When They Only Give One Treat? Comic by Daniel Smallegange

 Comic written and drawn by Dan Smallegange, all rights reserved, copyright 2022.

I am very Proud to have worked on a show, as Props Buyer, which won an Oscar for Best Production Design. Congrats to Frankenstein!

Hurray, I can now scratch off my career list: Work for a show which wins an Oscar for Best Production Design (which Props Dept falls under). Congrats for Frankenstein Oscars to Tamara Deverell and Shane Vieau. Also, Kate Hawley, who won for best costumes, Cliona Furey. Mike Micky Hill, and Jordan Samuel for hair and makeup. Yay. Here are some pics of props and things I was involved with and thought were cool. I personally ripped up and aged the flags and got all the weapons and horse gear for the battle field scene, which was one of my faves. And getting the books was another passion project as I love antiques and books and so does the director. #frankenstein #Oscars #GuillermoDelToro

I ripped and aged the flags, got the weapons, worked on canons and horses and gear.

I did the human organs in the jars.

The dead soldiers fell under props, along with gear and weapons like swords and guns.

My van on a typical day, haha.

Books were one of my favourite props to get as I love old books and so did Guillermo. These the Creature peruses and were on the shelf in the cabin scene.

Myself talking Canes with legendary Guillermo del Toro.

There is a Fine Layer of Dust, by Daniel Smallegange.

There is a fine layer of dust

Covering you almost entirely you

Fine layers and fine print

A fine mess

And look at you looking

With those wet eyes so big

Shake yourself rise up rise up

At least enough to

Shake off some of the gathered detritus

This debris there's bits of plaster too

Coating you, fallen down

From this house once great you built

Now slowly crumbling

A fine mess indeed and murky viewings

Prospects seen

Through windows smeared

But what was once glorious

That is where your head lies now

Behind

And look at you looking

With those big wet liquid eyes

Rise up rise up

Shake off this dust and gathering mold

At least at least

Before you settle once more

To view the past

And reminisce

By Daniel Smallegange, copyright 2026, all rights reserved.

Photo of the author, circa 2010ish.

I Crushed a Can at Midnight, by Daniel Smallegange

I crushed a can at midnight

And I sunk too deep

I thrashed around to music

While all the gods did sleep

Dancing with the stars

Fronting like a Tsar

An island on my own

Hissing at the flames

Begging for the rains

While I crushed a can

I crushed another

It was then that I

Began to wonder

How it all began

Where it was she ran

And how the times do change

Until I danced this free

I sang for solace and revenge

Alone alone at midnight

Where I crushed a can

I crushed and crushed and crushed them all

Until my vision swam

I railed and cried and gnashed my teeth

Coughed and puked and staggered

And then I took to swagger

And walked the pain away

Until the moonlight

Ran from me like rain

And the dawn arrived

To whom I crushed another can

By Daniel Smallegange, copyright 2014, all rights reserved.

Photo of the author, approx 2010, Toronto.

In a Certain Light, written by Daniel Smallegange

In a certain light

In a certain view

I can see and contend

Exactly with you

With what you say and

What you mean

All you portray

What to glean

From all your frontings and fixed countenance

Your damn gloating and false pretence

Such effortless allure I wish I could procure

Lovely contours also you can imprint upon me

Anytime night or day

However and when

My point of view shifts

When I stumble or fall

Everything is less focused

More obscure

And the truth of you

Shines as through an open door

That's quickly shut

So this blurs and fades

Shades of light

Yellows and grey

But your silhouette remains constant and

Pulls me your way

I orbit you like some doomed planet

Caught heavily by your sway

But it's difficult to

Read through the lines

Divine truth from lies

However and ever

In a certain light

In a certain view

I can deal and contend

Exactly with you

So, long may it last

As good as it can get

After all and as they say

There's still life in me yet

Written by Daniel Smallegange, copyright 2026, all rights reserved.

Pic: I am in the centre, with a couple friends at a bar, from many moons ago.

Home Sweet Home, Comic by Dan Smallegange

 

Comic by Dan Smallegange, all rights reserved, copyright 2023.

DAN (This is on the shelf by my stairs :)