It’s the Modern World, the End of Times, the Decline of the West, the Revolt of the Masses. It’s the 1920’s. It’s going to be Very Silly.
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 [...]
In Finnish, with some English lyrics.
See also: First part/Ensimmäinen osa
Translation:
Know your three theological virtues.
This is the first page of a short story written entirely in Finnish. It is surprisingly difficult to find the correct voices for the characters in a new language, especially Finnish, which is stiff and tends to fill the speech bubbles horizontally (I like vertically stretched bubbles, but they only work well with Japanese or [...]
Humu-Heikki was a Finnish sailor and adventurer in Piirtopalat, the first 100% Finnish comic magazine in the 1940’s. With his Norwegian friend Hans he got into all kinds of trouble in South American ports, leading mutinies, smuggling arms, rebelling against dictators and being rescued by the seductive Lola. In a 1977 article in Sarjainfo, some [...]