nicholasgurewitch:

THOR SPOILER: Kate Beaton and I collaborated on this Marvel parody piece in 2011, for their Strange Tales series.

I’m not as good at doing Nick Gurewitch comics as Nick Gurewitch is, but it was fun to try!  Marvel was always great with this series, they just wanted artists to have a laugh with their characters.  Hope it comes back sometime.

(Source: pbfcomics.com, via perryfellow)

A rare new story from Alistair MacLeod (click through, as always).

Of course, as a Cape Bretoner, he is our literary pride and joy.

cute-girl-network:

“It’s so easy to get comfortable in the world of Cute Girl Network.  The beautifully rendered art completely pulls you in, and the natural, breezy dialogue never misses a beat.  There is a welcome familiarity- you feel like you’ve known a version of these people, your old roommate, a friend, an ex.  It’s a testament to Greg Means & M.K. Reed’s skills that they can turn a simple boy meets girl story into a real page turner, and keep you guessing at whose side you’re on.  I hope there’s more where this came from.”

-Kate Beaton, Hark! A Vagrant

THE CUTE GIRL NETWORK in stores November 12th! 

(Source: cute-girl-network)

My friend Charlotte thinks I will be like my mom if I am ever a mom, which would be amazing probably.

learn to be human plz 

discardingimages:

bad breath, stitched parchment – exorcism performed by pope Leo IX

Passionary, Weissenau 12th century.

Cologny, Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 127, fol. 191r

Just another day for ol' Pope Leo, all like, “ugh whatevs demon coming out of someone’s mouth, when’s lunch?”

erikkwakkel:

Charming medieval cartoon

This is a great example of how medieval drawings can look very modern. The 500-year-old book of Latin grammar in which this image is found, presents verbs accompanied by a drawing. To illustrate ”lego” (to read), a young student was drawn reading a book. With his short legs and abundance of hair, he looks eerily similar to a modern cartoon figure. Awesome.

Pic: Uppsala, University Library, C 678 (15th century). This is an English blog about the manuscripts (source of the image). A German article on this manuscript is found here.

Hobbit-y, right?

medievalpoc:

1800s Week!

Unknown British Artist

Portrait of Paul Cuffe/Cuffee

England (c. 1880)

oil on canvas, 64.1 x 52.1 cm.

Stuart P. Feld collection, NY, NY

The Image of the Black in Western Art Research Project and Photo Archive, W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research, Harvard University

Paul Cuffee (1759-1817) was a man of Aquinnah Wampanoag and West African Ashanti descent, Quaker businessman, ship owner, navigator, abolitionist and also founded the first racially integrated school in Westport, Massachusetts. He was the founder of the Friendly Society of Sierra Leone, and organized expeditions that facilitated emigration of free Blacks from the United States to Sierra Leone and the newly independent Haiti.

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hmm yes I will reblog old-timey sailor pics

beatonna:

HALLOWEEN QUIZ

1.  How can you tell if the unknown party guest is the Devil?
- He has cloven feet
- He turned the television on to MTV (grandma was right!)
- He’s all like “hey baby, I’m burnin’ up here cause you’re so hot and I’m Satan”
- He’s checking out your copy of the Malleus Maleficarum all casual like it’s not weird

2.  Who was Jack the Ripper, really?
- The Earl of Toffee, heir to Her Majesty’s cabbages
- Colonel Mustard in the Conservatory with the lead pipe
- Moriarty, damn his eyes! He’s the Napoleon of crime!
- El Chupacabra

3.  How can I tell thou art a witch?
- For thou hast cavorted with Satan in a sexy way
- Because I could really use thy farmland if thou happened to be a witch
- For the milk has gone sour and I understand science not
- For thou won’t consent to a simple drowning test, the premise “offends thy good sense”

4.  Before Jack o’ Lanterns, Celtic cultures used:
- The carved heads of your enemies
- Bog sacrifice of your enemies
- Oatmeal in the shape of a face (of your enemies)
- Jack o’ turnips

5.  Which Malevolent Old Woman Spirit from Japan is the scariest?
- Cackling old woman
- Old woman bleeding from the eyes
- Floating head of weeping old woman
- Old woman inquiring about your marital status

6.  What is the only thing that can kill a werewolf?
- Silver bulletin
- Strychnine
- Rock n’ roll
- Pile driver

7.  Should we pick up this spectral hitchhiker?
- Only if he will share his weed
- No way, they’re jerks! You give them a ride and then they vanish without saying thanks
- Only if they’re doing that thing where you stick your leg out
- I don’t trust those spectral hitchhikers, they’re all the same, but I’m not racist or anything

8.  Trick or:
- Treacle
- Train
- Tits
- El Chupacabra

9.  If you say “Bloody Mary” three times, what will you see in the mirror?
- The Virgin Mary (this answer is blasphemous, circle only if you are willing to go to confession immediately)
- “Bawdy Mary?” this spell is broken
- A bartender who heard you the first time
- A scorching hot hag (if you’re into hags)

10. What do the zombies want?
- Brains
- Brians

Please circle your answers in blood (obviously) and submit your papers via séance

I reblogged a link to this quiz I made last year, but deleted it, this is better!  The whole darn thing.

Happy Halloween!

(via beatonna)

Here are some silly Halloween postcard comics i made.  Just click through!

the difference between ryannorth and I

classy dinner convo with brittwilson and vickinerino

Mr Big 

What it’s like to be stupid