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[cosmonautroger]

Algeria, 7000 BC

[pan-pacifica]

Doggerland: The Europe That Was

[epestrefe]

Κνωσσός,Κρήτη

Knossos,Crete

Knossos is the site of the most important and better-known palace of Minoan civilization. According to tradition, it was the seat of the legendary king Minos. The Palace is also connected with thrilling legends, such as the myth of the Labyrinth with the Minotaur and the story of Daedalus and Icarus.

[er-cryptid]

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[theoldstone]

Wistman’s Wood is a remote high-altitude oakwoods on Dartmoor, England. While obviously not a rock, the forest is actually situated on top of a large bank of exposed granite boulders where pockets of acid have formed, and loamy brown earth soils have accumulated. It is home to a surprising amount of poisonous adders as well. (Maybe this is where all our hag stones come from?)

The Wood has been mentioned in writing for hundreds of years, but has existed since 7000 BC and was partially cleared in 5000 BC by Mesolithic hunter/gatherers. It’s thought the name derives from the dialect word “wisht” meaning eerie, uncanny, or “pixie-haunted,” and some legends tell that the Heath Hounds (aka – hellhounds) originate from these woods, and are set loose to chase the region’s sinners or the unbaptized into hell.

This story is itself a distinctly British offshoot of the Wild Hunt legend that pervades many Northern European cultures, and describes a gathering of ghostly or supernatural hunters who streak the sky in dogged pursuit of something. The identities of the hunters vary and can be elves, fairies, or simply the dead; and the leaders of the hunt are typically Gods or Heroic figures of some kind. Seeing the hunt is said to presage a catastrophe, or at best the death of the person(s) who witnessed it. Witnesses may also be dragged to the underworld or a fairy kingdom, or their souls could be dragged from their bodies to join in the hunt.

[fuckyeahwallpaintings]

Rock Art at Laas Geel, Somaliland, 9.000 - 3.000 BC

Photos: Abdullah Geelah/wikimedia commons (photo at the top) Clay Gilliland (2nd row left), J McDowell (2nd row right), Vladimir Lysenko (I.)/ wikimedia commons (2 photos at the bottom)

[alunclewe]

So, I did once again get a comic done on 24-Hour Comics Day, and this morning I finally got around to getting the whole thing online. Pictured above is the title page (I'm not crazy about the title, but at one point I decided I was spending way too much time trying to think of a good title and ought to just pick a title even if I wasn't particularly fond of it and get on with drawing the comic); you can see the whole comic at https://d24comic.com/Night .

(The comic was drawn at a 24-Hour Comics Day event at the Albuquerque Public Library, hosted by the independent comics shop 7000 B.C.)

[alunclewe]

So, once again this year I participated in 24-Hour Comics Day... and for the first and hopefully last time I was not able to do it in a physical host location.  (More on that later.)  I did, however, still do it in a group setting of sorts, because I was in a 24-Hour Comics Day Zoom meeting hosted by 7000 BC, a comic store in New Mexico.  (Were there not closer locations hosting this year?  No.  No there were not.  Again, more on that later.)

I’ll scan the whole comic later and put it online, but in the meantime here’s the first page of my newest 24-hour comic.  (Most of the pages are not, of course, nearly this elaborate; since this was a big splash page, I spent more time on this page than on any other page in the comic.)