Eric Canete has been ramping up interest for March's Emerald City Comic Con, where he'll be selling a sketchbook called Monsters and Dames, by posting tantalizing glimpses of works in progress via his Instagram feed and the finished work on his Twitter account.

A while back, Canete vowed on his blog to no longer sketch copyrighted characters, so if you requested, say, a Big Barda sketch, he'd instead do a piece for you based on his reimagining of Kirby's initial concept of a warrior goddess. There's clearly some of this notion going on with these pieces; I think we all could take a guess at which characters possibly inspired which drawings. Some of the pictures below may be regarded as NSFW, depending on your boss' tolerance for cartoon pokies or under-boob.