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I made a separate blog for my thesis in Swedish (and some Finnish) called Fienden (The Enemy). I will publish everything related to it over there.

October 11th, 2008 | Category: Historia, blog, stereotypes | Comments (2)

You want to know what has been holding me away from Goldenbird all these years? Soon to be revealed - the true nature of the Enemy of the Nation (guess which nation)…
Since September 2003 (gasp!) I have been working on my Ph.D. dissertation in the glorious science of History (well, in my case maybe more [...]

September 18th, 2008 | Category: Historia, identity, stereotypes, suomi, svenska | Comments (6)

Have a jazzy Bastille Day with the Harlem Hellhounds!
Mayann and Lou’s band in Paris is led by Sgt. Cottonmouth (top right), a veteran of the 369th infantry regiment, a.k.a “the Hellfighters” - the first Allied troops to reach the Rhine in 1918, *and* the first to introduce jazz to France (you should read more about [...]

July 13th, 2008 | Category: art, france, goldenbird | Comments (1)

I still haven’t had the energy to draw anything, but I found a silly book from 1920 about how to analyse the character of a person based on their looks, and I had to check how Falco and Andy compared. Read the silliness here…
Among other news: I have been working like an idiot to finish [...]

July 8th, 2008 | Category: blog, goldenbird, stereotypes | Comments (1)