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Generally speaking Corey has the cutest outfits out of the entire staff.

Happy 26th birthday, Elisa "Ells" Robbins! (2/27/1989)

"I just took a trip down Memory Lane and it was surreal as hell. Also, there's no speed limit on Memory Lane and that's cool."

#Ells Robbins #The Historians #happy birthday to the closest thing to a main character that we have

If there was to be a spinoff of The Historians, LaGuardia would probably be the main character. She has a strong enough personality to carry a storyline on her own and since she's a New Yorker (she lives in Middle Village, Queens and works in Manhattan) I could surround her with all sorts of interesting people because, well, this city is a delight.

#Fiorella Azzara #LaGuardia #The Historians

Happy birthday to our 6'2" hockey-playing firebrand genealogist Karen Cunningham! She's 26 today!

#Karen Cunningham #The Historians

okay

#Corey Windham #Ells Robbins #Clyde Alfredson #The Historians

WHAT A BIG NERD.

#Clyde Alfredson #The Historians

Ells has spent her entire life putting up with sexism due to her love of cars and motorsports and she regularly calls this stuff out.

#Ells Robbins #The Historians #sexism

It runs in my family (Ells, Clyde, and Corey!)

Ells: Ells is a miniature version of her father. She resembles him physically (right down to the hair, although his is lower) and they share their perverted sense of humor. Her mom is very frustrated that there are basically two of them to deal with. Like her dad, Ells tries her very best to be an honest mechanic since he made sure she knew there weren’t enough of those!

(Art from 2012, but you get the idea. Ells’s mom Irene Robbins is on the left and her dad Oliver Robbins is on the right.)

Corey: Corey’s family is made up of philosophy-loving educators - her father is a philosophy professor, her mother is an elementary school librarian, and her older brother Mark is a high school teacher who actually teaches a philosophy class. Corey actively combines her parents’ careers by being an archivist who also has a degree in philosophy. During the story it’s eventually revealed that she’s been working on a philosophy PhD. the entire time.

Clyde: Clyde’s father is a Londoner and his mother is from Amsterdam, so he’s spent a lot of time trying to balance two different traditions and two different life philosophies. Fortunately, these two countries have a lot of shared history, so he has an easier time with this than many other people do. His mother was actually a really good softball player in college (baseball and softball being popular in the Netherlands), so he was raised to love football (soccer) by his father and baseball by his mother, although he never played either. He does enjoy experimenting with speed skating, though, another hobby he inherited from his athletic Dutch mother. She, much like her son, really does enjoy going fast.

(Side note: Ells is a native of Boston and as such considers the Red Sox to be a religion. She is very, very happy that she does not have to worry about Clyde not understanding this.)

#staturescout #The Historians #Ells Robbins #Corey Windham #Clyde Alfredson

Ells and Karen are a couple of nerds.

Colored version of this lineart!

#Ells Robbins #Karen Cunningham #The Historians #Team Fortress 2 #TF2

Just goofing off around here, as usual. Ells pretty much IS the TF2 Scout, so here she is with Karen accompanying her as Heavy.

#Ells Robbins #Karen Cunningham #The Historians #TF2 #Team Fortress 2

Posing for the cover of chapter 5, which you'll see at midnight EST (GMT -5) right here!

#Ells Robbins #Clyde Alfredson #The Historians

Racing teammates at their finest.

#Ells Robbins #Fiorella Azzara #The Historians

With a main character like this, nobody takes us seriously. Which is the point, really.

#Ells Robbins #The Historians #what a freaking nerd

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They do actually sell Dunkin Donuts coffee at Fenway, but Ells is advocating for a full Dunks franchise inside the ballpark.

#The Historians #Ells Robbins

Since the Mets-Rockies game is a complete debacle on both sides right now, here's LaGuardia, who is actually currently swearing violently at the Mets because that's what people from Queens do.

#The Historians #Fiorella Azzara

Armo wanted us to remind you that he exists, so here he is.

#The Historians #Armo Karppinen

Spoiler alert: the song sucks.

Brace for the next chapter - we're starting pages next week!

#The Historians #webcomic #webcomics #Ells Robbins #Clyde Alfredson

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