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Hey, friends! The big SchweizerCraft wall-hanging Santa's Workshop DisPlayset is finally (after working on it for three years) available for order! Comes with Santa, Mrs. Claus, and 10 elves, and there are 25 other winter holiday figures available, too! schweizercraft.bigcartel.com

23/07/27 21:45

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Just finished a rewatch of @flanaganfilm's MIDNIGHT MASS, so here's a Father Paul to bless your Sunday

23/06/05 03:55

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Hey there, friends! If you're a new follower, you may not have my most recent art book: 88 pages of museum sketches, poster roughs, character drawings, environmental designs, and more. Comes signed and with a sketch. schweizercomics.com/drawings

23/05/17 22:54

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Blades of May 13: a great sword whose blade is from the late Ming Dynasty, but which was rehandled for (probably) civilian or martial artist use nearer the Boxer Uprising

23/05/13 21:16

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Hey, friends. I’m gonna do a “Blades of May” thing, where every day I post up a different sword/choppy weapon sketch from my recent visits to the tower armory, the Royal Armoury, and the British Museum. Here’s Blades of May #1: English Swept-Hilt Rapier.

23/05/02 02:01

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Brendan Fraser from The Mummy (commission for a Patreon backer)

23/04/21 20:09

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Some American Folk Heroes this fine Sunday morning: Here's Toine Barada, the Omaha Aquaman, "Lifeguard of the Missouri", who would ferry folks escaping enslavement across the river to Nebraska on his back.

23/04/02 21:47

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Some American Folk Heroes this fine Sunday morning: Slue-Foot Sue, the texas cowgirl who could, and did, ride anything

23/04/02 21:38

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Some American Folk Heroes this fine Sunday morning: Here's Joe Magarac, the Croatian-born steelworker with impenetrable skin who smashed up the US Capital Building on account of some no good anti-immigrant congressmen

23/04/02 21:35

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R-R-R-Recording in progress, Maarva

22/12/29 01:43

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Here's the finished ARTUR REX small print I drew up for the mail-level tier of my P@treon (won't be shipping it out til mid-January, with October and November's long-delayed mailings).

22/12/27 01:38

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It’s been a while since I’ve done traditional inks over blue line; if I’m watercoloring I usually use graphite or lightbox them from printed digitals, or if it’s gonna be digitally colored I just ink digitally, too. I finished this a little while back but don’t think I shared it!

22/12/27 00:09

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Companions of Christmas 15: Hogger Boggs! During World War II, Santa generally had to fly much lower than he does during peacetime, for fear of attracting the attention of aircraft spotters and putting local towns into panic. 1/

22/12/18 22:03

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Companions of Christmas 14: Hans Trapp! Trapp (once known as Hans Von Trotha) was a German knight in who, in the 1480s, forcibly took possession of a castle fortress that had belonged to a monastery. 1/

22/12/15 02:20

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#CompanionsOfChristmas 8: #Belsnickel! Belsnickel was a hermit in Germany’s large and wild Black Forest, a fur trapper who wanted nothing more than to be left alone, but he lived near the entrance of a cave that children from a nearby village liked to explore. 1/

22/12/08 23:37

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#CompanionsOfChristmas 7: Mari Lwyd! #MariLwyd was a gray mare belonging to Taliesin, a poet hailed as “chief of the bards” in sixth century Wales. Taliesin frequently called on Awen, the Welsh muse, for inspiration... 1/

22/12/07 23:15

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#CompanionsOfChristmas #4: The Krampus! The Krampus was a rural giftgiver who would deliver presents to good Alpine children and stuff the naughty ones into his basket and take them back to his lair, where they would be forced to spend the next year making toys for good kids. 1/

22/12/05 00:06

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#CompanionsOfChristmas 3: Piet! Piet is Santa’s chief lieutenant, in charge of managing operations at the North Pole. When Piet met Santa, he was a young castle page on the eve of being made squire, but his lord was a wicked knight who had contrived to capture the saint. 1/

22/12/03 23:08

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#CompanionsOfChristmas 2: Mrs Claus! Mrs. Claus was once better known by her given name, Alba. She was the nymph of the silver fir tree, a captain in the retinue of the goddess Artemis, and she first met Saint Nicolas when he came to do battle with her Lady. 1/

22/12/02 22:14

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I started a collection of Christmas characters last year, and I'm gonna add to it this year), posting one per day through the 23rd. #CompanionsOfChristmas 1: Santa Claus, or Saint Nicolas (“Santa” means “Saint,” and “Claus” is short for “Niklaus/Nicolas)! 1/

22/12/01 21:34

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(the rest of the Schulz tribute comic essay) 2/2

22/11/27 06:43

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Today's Charles Schulz's 100th birthday. Peanuts means a lot to me and my family, but there's one factor of his work that I've thought about an awful lot, and which I wrote about in a (comics) essay for a Peanuts tribute book some years back. 1/2

22/11/27 06:42

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Puttin' together a lecture

22/11/16 08:43

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Finished drawing of Armage, Queen of the Sarmatians in the 2nd century BCE, who personally led a band of 120 mounted warriors in an assault against the palace of a King in Crimean Scythia who had been raiding her allies, killed him, and installed his grandson as a puppet vassal

22/11/12 01:49

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This might be old hat for some of you, but I stumbled onto Internet Archive's digitization of Viollet-le-Duc's massive multi-volume 19th c. Dictionary of French Architecture from the 11th to the 16th century; INCREDIBLE resource for medieval buildings: archive.org/details/dictio…

22/10/23 05:07