This page got very large and I split it into two installments. I’ve mentioned it before on Goldenbird’s Facebook page, but it is very strange that this comic is set in 1920 and we are now living in 2020. I[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Ettore should really keep his hands out of Falco’s pockets. I found Mayann’s little folk rhyme fragment in a book from 1922 called Negro Folk Rhymes: Wise and Otherwise, edited by Thomas Washington Talley, chemistry professor at Fisk University, choral[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Another international man of mystery. They are flocking to this strange town. I can reveal this much: Truman voted for Woodrow Wilson in 1916, and came to regret it. “The American adventurer in old Europe” was a popular adventure film[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
When I try to ink rough karstic rock formations, they turn smooth and rounded (like Mochi’s ). Karst happens when rock is dissolved by water, and if the rock is soft (e.g. limestone), the result – from the human perspective[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Noonday Devil, daemonium meridianum, is traditionally used as a synonym for the sin acedia, especially considered an affliction of ascetics and hermit monks. It is a state of spiritual sloth, or rather hopelessness, ”the sorrow of the world that[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
There is a Swedish and Finnish saying, “like the Devil reads the Bible” – som fan läser bibeln; lukee kuin piru raamattua; meaning that somebody is doing a malicious interpretation – through literalism, equivocation, wilful misinterpretation, or looking for loopholes.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Too much to handle for a little puppy, after all. I find that emotion and action scenes spread out over much more pages than I had originally planned. On the other hand, bigger panels are quicker to draw. Now that[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Finally. Whew, those three pages were tough! This scene was on my mind for years and it has certainly evolved in a more complicated direction than before. I always get anxious when I put my characters into really dangerous situations.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
My ambition this year is to get chapter 6 printed (re-read it here) and the first two chapters reprinted (you can start reading from the very beginning here). And of course to get on with a brand-new chapter. It’s been[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
That’s a lot of peach trees. To be able to ink all of them in one sitting, I listened to a lecture about deaths in panzers by the German Panzer Museum. (1 h 48 min) It didn’t take that long,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…