Graphic novel originally commissioned by York Archaeological Trust for display at the Jorvik Viking Festival
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The Hammer Flies
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Behold the God-slayer Typhon – Doom of Zeus – Graphic Novel Fourth Draft
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She sees one sheep
Typhon is too giant for the earth.
Down
I have done a great deal of research in the build up to turning this very strange and ancient tale into a graphic novel so that it is all based on history, (unless it was the morphine). Some of the research work helped me create the individual features linked to below:
The Handwritten text boxes titled Information Snippet add background details from the research work.
Yes this is what I have been busy with over the past months while in and out of hospital and beginning my long recuperation by the sea.
I came up with the idea of developing a graphic novel around a Greek myth earlier in the year and an independent publisher is now on board with an interest in hybrid publishing (that’s when you publish online and with a major distributor too).
It has been a dream for many years to do something with the quirky and strange Typhon and the terrible Zeus; their battle suited my online graphic novels perfectly.
We are probably a couple of hundred hours from the ‘for sale’ version, but I shall update here as pieces and text boxes are completed.
Please do share with friends as we will be asking for help shifting the finished product later in the year.
PS the first graphic novel from Viking Comics Inc. The Hammer Flies is almost ready for release as a slide show presentation – my first movie!
PPS Soon to become an epic poem, a poetess has commissioned me to illustrate.
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OldMan Comics Inc #23
OldMan Comics Inc #23
And now welcome to Zoom: My sister
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Collect all 23 editions of OldMan below…
Click here to view the Indoctrination poem
Click here to view Lives of Creatives
Click here to view OldMan 04 – Star Trek
Click here to view OldMan 05 – Missing Time
Click here to view OldMan 06 – Back When I Was Abducted
Click here to view OldMan 07 – Pickles from the Polish store
Click here to view OldMan 08 – of Socks and Slippers
Click here to view OldMan 09 – Fame at Last
Click here to view OldMan 10 – Battle of Hastings
Click here to view OldMan 11 – This time it’s personal
Click here to view OldMan 12 – Bob’s Life
Click to view OldMan 14 – Magazine Feature
Click here for Viking Comics Inc.’s latest project – The Horned God
Click here for the completed Viking Comics Inc. graphic novel The Hammer Flies
Click here for Viking Comics Inc. graphic novel for older children Oski and the Amulet
Click to view – OldMan 18 – Those Terrible Towers
Click to view – Terrible Tower of Flame
Click to view – Knock Them Down
Click to view Hobb and the Normans at Cliffords Tower
Cancer Care Capers – OldMan #19
OldMan Comics #20 – Learning some moves; grandkid-wise
OK Popsico you asked Ana and here you Go – Hey You!
OldMan Comics 23
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Visiting Viking Attractions: An Idea Swap; revisited
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Visiting Viking Attractions: An Idea Swap – one of my most successful blogs, here revisited, which celebrates the uniqueness of such as Norske Høstfest ND, UWGB Viking Festival and of course, my other home, Njardarheimr Viking Town, Gudvangen, Norway – lots of ideas…
(Book mark it or save the URL now for you will want to come back and back.)
So, here I am back in Blighty. Bit of a rest-stop before it all starts again.
This isn’t a travelogue,
I have a feel for something a little more intellectual; an idea swap. There are ‘transferable models’ out there and we are the experiencees.
I have called this the ‘first draft’ because I just know you all have ideas to share.
When I say all, I mean Viking related peeps; if you are coming from other directions or none Viking ‘attractions’ OK well we would like to chat with you too you poor little things.
Think of this as a Birth-Product for we know there are ticket buyers out there and we want them in – and besides, gosh, we are engulphed by our own enthusiasm.
You hobbyists you.
Er, sorry, Vikings. x
Right.
While I was at Njardarheimr my good friend Christof took me to the
Voss Folkemusuem
(link below).
It was a wonderful experience.
Gaius Cornelius Tacitus wrote of the concept of farms as a commune, Karl the guide in Njardarheimr says so, and so does my friend Susan who lives on er, well a farm.
An expanded community almost in the same way as villages in Britain etc.
The farmhouse gets longer as we add people on. The square of the building becomes, er, squarer. The farm.
A Viking-age cultural development still relevant today.
Voss Folkemuseum came from such a community development.
We had a lovely time there. It wasn’t ‘populated’ like Gudvangen is, but on the other hand it felt good to be free to roam. We shared the experience and did so in our own time and in our own space.
Not all of the things we spotted and liked on the farm would have been used in the Viking age, yet share them I shall. You may know otherwise, or ideas may come from them.
One such thing which I loved was the work-stool; a stool yes, but with an extra bit to slot tools in, be it crafting or carving.