Many old stories tell of sailors landing on mysterious islands, out in the open sea. There they make their camp, and light their fires. Then the island sinks down fast. The drowned become its food. The island is not an
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Author: PJH
PJ Holden is a comic artist and this is his blog.
#52 – “Return”
The isle of the Gods and Goddesses, of heroes and heroines; a realm beyond time and death, where the bravest and the boldest live out their eternities. The winterless Blessed Isles of Ancient Greek mythology, where those heroes who chose
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#49 – “Fafrotskies”
Charles Fort Christened them “Fafrotskies” – a contraction of “falls from the skies”. Frogs, coins, spiders, even blood have been recorded raining down for millennia. In Yoro, Honduras, fish fall so regularly that the Festival de Lluvia de Peces is
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#51 – “Selkie”
The selkie fowk (“seal people“) are shapeshifters of Scottish folklore. The merrow (“moruach” – “sea-maid“) of Irish mythology is sometimes also regarded as a seal-woman, as opposed to the more common notion of a mermaid. The 19th-century Scottish Folklorist Walter
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Folklore Thursday: Treasures and Weapons, fit only for heroes
Well, here it is. The last of folklore thursday! I wanted to end on something that tried to draw as much in as possible (without appearing too cluttered) like an idiot I redrew all of those monsters, you won’t be
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Folklore Thursday: Ocean
And we’re coming to the end, so time to revisit some old friends 😛 The look of the selkies here is a bit of fail on my part (seeing how the sausage is made is what you expect from me,
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What happens next?
So, we are approaching the end of our year of #FolkloreThursday comics. When PJ and I first embarked on this little adventure of ours, way back in 2019 when everything was so very different, we didn’t really have a solid
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#50 – “Hy-Brasil”
Out in the ocean west of Ireland lies Hy-Brasil. Whispered of for centuries, the island was first marked on a map in the C14th. No longer though, for Hy-Brasil is enchanted. Visible only every 7 years. Last sighted in 1872,
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Folklore Thursday: Hy-Brasil
What does Hy-Brasil look like, what shape is it? What’s on it? I have no idea, so you’ve got to make these things up, I suppose. I Shaped out an island, in panel one, and started figuring out some geography,
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Folklore: Fafrotskies
AT LAST! CHARLES FORT makes an appearance! My frustration with my abilities as a colourist has never felt more evident. I also tried, and failed, a kind of Burroughs Cut-up technique to see if I could shake something out of
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