folklorethursday

Folklore Thursday: Dragoni

Posted on 27th February 2020 by PJH

When I get one of John’s tweets, I try and let them perculate around my head a little.. What does this conjure up? Is there a story in this, can i make it a story, and, sometimes… does this make
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Folklore Thursday: Portals

Posted on 20th February 2020 by PJH

I wanted to tell a story, and specifically a love story. Linking readers through time to each other. Initially, because I’m the definition of vanilla straight man, it was a man and a woman but that just felt very dull
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Folklore Thursday: Anteros

Posted on 13th February 2020 by PJH

Oh man, this was a hard one. Frankly, I found the idea of an avenging god of unrequited love absolutely appalling. And it was hard to figure out how to tell a story that wasn’t going to be… gross. I’m
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Folklore Thursday: Beowulf

Posted on 6th February 2020 by PJH

Is this the shortest comic adaptation of Beowulf? someone phone the guinness book of world records. Oh I was so excited to get this tweet early from John. I’ve never been into fantasy, I was hard wired for sci-fi, but
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Folklore Thursday: Wandinja

Posted on 30th January 2020 by PJH

The location in the bottom panel is based on The Pinnacles in Australia. (Not much time to go in depth here for this one, pencilled, inked and coloured in clip studio. Researched via google.)

Folklore Thursday: yedua

Posted on 23rd January 2020 by PJH

Any resemblance to creatures living, dead or fictional is entirely coincidental. I wanted to do a one page short story, there’s a variety of cool muck monster things in fiction, and I love the pairing of god with streetwise magician
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Folklore Thursday: Hidebehind

Posted on 16th January 2020 by PJH

We ended up, somehow, out of sync with the folklore thursday account, tweeting our stories on week ahead of theme (christmas, a confusing time all round). So this is a resync strip. John sent me the tweet and I had
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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: Santurnalia

Posted on 19th December 2019 by PJH

Just one more thing… So, here’s a special thing, just for you (for the moment) a two pager. John will be tweeting a two tweet thread. I had planned more, but this came in late with double the normal workload.
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