Roy 151 Major Arcana

This month's Mental Roy was to cover spurious predictions for the coming year. After a certain amount of discussion with the editors regarding Roy reading the future in his own guts, I felt that another approach might be better. Thus Mental Roy as a Tarot Card character was conceived. The Fool, of course, which coincidentally is the first of the Major Arcana, whatever that means.

    For the purposes of the illustration I chose to closely follow the elements that appear in most Tarot depictions of the fool: the bag on a stick often associated with vagrant children, the flower in the hand meaning he’s a wannabe gardener, is looking for a girlfriend. What is usually a small dog taking a bite out of the seat of the fool's trousers is represented in this image by a small cat (for the sole reason that I already had a cat version of Roy and a deadline). Another common theme I have included from the cards is the headland, the end of which he is in danger of blindly walking over into the sea below, the moron.