Chronos was the Ancient Greek word for time, Cronos their sickle carrying God of Agriculture. Romans related Cronos to their own Saturn, and made him an old man. His sickle became a scythe, and Cronos became Old Father Time who,
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Author: PJH
Schedule
“How long does it take you to do a page?” Every comic artist has had to answer that one at some point (and more often than not, they have to answer that one over and over again, both to fans
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Folklore Thursday: Locker
Oh man, we messed up. Well, we didn’t really, we work from a list in advance of what the next Folklore Thursday is gonna be. The list is pretty far in advance, and, apparently, this week, changed. So instead of
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Uniform
I cobbled my version of dredd together over 15 or so years of lifting and removing the bits of his uniform I liked and didn’t like. The Stallone movie (*spit*) added a couple of things to my Dredd armour –
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Folklore Thursday Celestial
Originally published at https://www.patreon.com/holdenreppion Unusually this particular folklore thursday tweet went through a rewrite… I’ll start with the finished article, here it is: On the 23rd of September the Sun will cross the Celestial Equator, marking the Northern Hemisphere’s Autumn
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Holden and Reppion are Making Comics (on Patreon)
So, been chatting to John about our next moves, and we’ve set up a patreon. If you’ve enjoyed the weekly folklore comics, and want to help us justify to ourselves why we’re doing it, you can sign up to our
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Serves you right
For many years I ran a wordpress blog off a server on phpwebhosting, I started it so long ago that I don’t think there were that many options for self hosted wordpress blogs. It was always a little slow, but
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Folklore Thursday: Boudicca
Oh man, let’s start with the Tweet. I admit, on first read of this, I got very excited, I knew EXACTLY what I was gonna do. Which sounds great, but it’s inevitably crushingly disappointing as your abilities fail to meet
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Folklore Thursday: Labyrinth
Ok, I admit, this one got shorter shrift than some of the others. Totally on me, John gave me plenty of time (and a great bit of inspiration) The labyrinth is an ancient symbol. Painted and carved across the world
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Folklore Thursday: Lindwurm
Klagenfurt, Austria is home to a nine tonne statue of a Lindwurm, erected in 1590. Folklore tells of the beast plaguing the surrounding swamp, until it was eventually slain by a band of brave knights. Its skull was found in
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