Originally published at Patreon. Phew, I high time I got to do something of a nod* to Katsushika Hokusai. My initial thoughts was, I’d obviously get The Wave in there, that was a dead cert (it was only a few
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Folklore Thursday: Threshold
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: halloween
Folklore Thursday: Chronos
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: 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: 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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Folklore Thursday: Woodwose
No time for blogging this week, just enjoy the strip…! Oh and enjoy this email exchange between me and John… John, can you send me a selfie?I have … reasons… ME Hang on… Are you making me the Woodwose? JOHN
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Tweetdrawing
Earlier today, my friend John Reppion posted a little musing on twitter about a local Church being knocked down. John is a great writer, and the tweet had a lyrical quality that I really responded to. So I thought, as
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