I liked drawing this page. The original plan was five panels, but I realized so much detail would be lost or not even provided if I did not give the first panel more room to breathe. So I sacrificed a[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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Meet Fiona. Even in the Otherworld a young punk can’t find love at home and has to look for it in the world at large. As I mentioned a few posts back, Yeats cautions: “Do not think the fairies are[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Get a pint, play some darts, catch up with old friends, and — oh, yeah, endure the local Buachailleen. Also known as Herding Boys, the Bauchailleen are small boyish looking faeries who often wear pointy hats made from upturned red[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Meet Fiona and her trooping fairies (pixies) Lydia, Bridget, Naida; as well as Hob. Plus a few others in the background you’ll get to know soon. Have I mentioned trooping fairies yet? Here’s W.B. Yeats on the topic from his[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
You know Dianetics was dreamed up by some weirdass demon. LRH just took the credit. Furcas in Western demonology is a fallen angel who took up a teaching post in Hell as a professor of the dark arts, along with[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Finvarra is the High King of the Daoine Sidhe in Celtic folklore (but not the only one), and Oonagh is the High Queen, and his wife. We’ll meet them in a few chapters — but don’t expect a faithful to[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
You might know “the Golden Ones” as mysterious figures from early David Bowie lyrics (or maybe like Bowie you read too much Aleister Crowley in a haze of cocaine). But in any case, the Golden Ones here are actually the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
How Fetch thought he could leave his home unattended for a decade without attracting squatters is a rare show of naivete on his part. Or maybe just youthful carelessness? And you’re in a land of the fae, bud. What did[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Welcome to a new chapter — “Crude and Feckless”! Fans of The Clash should recognize the allusion to “Rudy Can’t Fail” off of London Calling (1979). Fetch is no Jamaican rude boy, but he might relate to catching flack from[…]↓ 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…