I had no idea about this when I first got the idea for Goldenbird (I have to thank Irish poet W.B. Yeats for that), but according to The Oneirocriticon of Daniel from the fourth century AD (a.k.a. The Dreambook of[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
So much to regret about this page (you should see the state of the original!), yet so much to celebrate. I’ve been drawing Goldenbird for ten years now. I have been thinking about this little metal bird for much longer.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
… or that’s what it feels like since my last update. This page turned out to be ridiculously detailed, as I feared! Mayann’s impatience is partly directed at the author and fully justified, of course. I have been unfaithful to[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
It took me a year to get started again… sorry for that. (I’m mostly apologising to myself.) I had to solve a few technical issues on the way, including getting old equipment to cooperate with new hardware and vice versa.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Maquis (French) or macchia (Italian: macchia mediterranea) is a shrubland biome in the Mediterranean region, typically consisting of densely growing evergreen shrubs. Macchia also means spot in Italian. A perfect segue to Gerard Manley Hopkins’ lovely poem Pied Beauty.
It’s funny to catch up with the script and give visual shape to episodes that I have been planning for a decade. Mayann: is (anachronistically) singing a blues standard from 1922, Ain’t Nobody’s Business If I Do, by Porter Grainger[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
