#jabbageart

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I bought a Strand Magazine from the 1890s this week, and got to discover that a about a third of it is advertisements, and a significant chunk of those are just for cocoa.

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I was utterly charmed by this book cover when I first saw it - aww, it's Sherlock Holmes, cuddling a chicken! Look, it's eyes are closed, it's so happy!

And then it was pointed out to me that said chicken is... kind of lacking a body. It is an ex-chicken. It has gone to meet the choir invisible. It has shuffled off this mortal coil. It is pining for the fjords, etc.

But don't worry.

I'm an artist. I can fix this.

There, much better.

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DID YOU KNOW there are so many pulpy late Victorian/Edwardian crime-solvers. I thought I'd have fun drawing some of them.

Psychic Detective Flaxman Low uses his keen logician’s mind to grapple with ghosts, spirits and on one notable occasion, fungus. He also gets possessed a lot.

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Two minute slightly sad can't sleep painting.