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Folklore Thursday: Fire

Posted on 21st May 2020 by PJH

Originally posted at my Patreon. This is one of those strips you feel smug about how you’ve turned it into to something. John’s tweets can sometimes be so evocative they paint a picture right in my brain and I’ve just
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Folklore Thursday: Jack-in-The-Green

Posted on 7th May 2020 by PJH

This strip appeared on our patreon first here. John Reppion has written an accompanying essay here. Hello! Back! And we’re opening up with a big full colour piece! Lots of fun drawing this, trying to get a bit of John
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Folklore Thursday: Shoe

Posted on 26th March 2020 by PJH

You can support John and I creating more of these comics at: patreon.com/holdenreppion Phew, just under the wire. Every piece of art now is an act of defiance. A defiance of the invisible enemy which is both unstoppable and imminently
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Folklore Thursday: Cray

Posted on 9th January 2020 by PJH

Seymour Roger Cray was an American supercomputer engineer. Beneath his suburban home he constructed a series of tunnels. When Cray reached a creative impasse he would retire below. “While I’m digging, the elves will often come to me with solutions
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Folklore Thursday: Threshold

Posted on 2nd January 2020 by PJH

Crank up the manifest, hoist the gibbert, weigh up the anchorage. We’re back! Having tried to push myself to do a little bit of writing over Christmas (you can see the results at my blog pauljholden.com) I thought I’d approach
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Folklore Thursday: Nuckelavee

Posted on 27th October 2019 by PJH

(More catching up!)

Folklore Thursday: Pig

Posted on 27th October 2019 by PJH

I haven’t missed doing one of these, but I have cocked up on posting them to my blog, so here’s a a few blog posts coming that are a Sunday catch up service!

Folklore Thursday: Chronos

Posted on 10th October 2019 by PJH

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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Folklore Thursday: Locker

Posted on 26th September 2019 by PJH

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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Folklore Thursday: Boudicca

Posted on 12th September 2019 by PJH

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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