So ends chapter 1, “Return of the Native.” Tune in next week for the start of chapter 2, “Crude and Feckless” to see if the faeries kick Fetch’s arse. ↓ TranscriptPANEL 1 Fetch looking up. FETCH: I don’t care who[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Hobs are small house elves or spirit or faerie, that in the folklore of the Irish, Scottish, and other Celtic peoples hang around your house and either help you with upkeep or trash the place if you piss them off.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Home again, home again, jiggity jig. This was a fun page to draw. So much detail. And thinking about what kind of house Fetch would have at all was a challenge. I considered a sidhe, but not as well kept[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Malvina Reynolds forever. Some folks might know “Little Boxes” as the theme for Weeds — which, if you bingewatch, will shove that song deep within your brain — but if not, here is a fine rendition. Play it loud: […]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
These are the people in your neighborhood: Selkie, Nessie, Leprechaun (being devoured), Dullahan (or to Americans, the Headless Horseman), a drunken goblin, and a vampiric elven woman enjoying leg of human. The Unseelie Court is a strange and creepy place.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Caring for sick parents in the best of families can be hard. In dysfunctional families, there’s an added measure of trauma. So I imagine dysfunctional fae families must come with a psychodrama unfathomable by modern analytical science. We had a[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The River Clyde in Scotland takes its name from the goddess Clodagh, also known as Clwyd, Clut, and Clota, depending on which Gaelic language you speak or if you’re Welsh. The river was important to the early Celts as a[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Thick woods, a road in disrepair, red skies, and demonic faeries devouring human corpses — could be upstate Michigan; but no, it’s the Autumn Court. In my reading I have come across references to red as a magical color in[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Meet Tara! I am an only child, so my experiences of sibling rivalry come secondhand through friends and eventually raising two kids of my own. Functional or dysfunctional, siblings have always impressed me with their vacillations between sniping and supporting[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Families can be hard. Did I say you’d meet Tara this week? I forgot about this page. Next week! I hope this page sets up her relationship with Fetch well enough. ↓ TranscriptPANEL 1 Fetch on his phone, sitting on[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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