I’m back after my travel break. Goldenbird is a light-hearted adventure comic set in the aftermath of the First World War. The characters have always been conscious of this, but they have been too caught up in the action to[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
You might have seen her before: Chapter 2, Discriminating Taste Or heard about her: Chapter 5, La Peregrini Admittedly, it’s been 10 years in real time between each mention of her in this comic… A good excuse to reread the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Aspirante ufficiale is a designation that you often encounter when looking through rolls and lists of Italian men serving in WW1. In the extremely bloody battles on the Alpine front, Italy lost many officers and had to rapidly train anyone[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I hope the gradients convey the “geometric horror” of this First World War POW camp situated near Celle, Lower Saxony. Originally Falco was supposed to have been just a regular soldier, but once I started to read up on the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Another glimpse of Falco’s backstory (20 years in the making; there is much, much more that won’t fit into this comic…). Long after I came up with this storyline, I discovered that Eugenio Pacelli, the future Pope Pius XII, had[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
And cut! Next page will move to a different part of Ginestra – what on earth have Andy, Lou and Goldie been up to in the meantime? You can check the end of chapter 6 if you want to refresh[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…