VikkiComics

Illustrator, Writer, Animator. CommissionsOpen! Creator of ongoing Ww1Fiction Ottoway, see https://ottoway.carrd.co/

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Crozier and Fitzjames animated gifs. Cos I haven’t really animated anything since my dissertation. 

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Brother can you spare a dime? I have no income, here is my Ko-fi if you want to support my art with a small donation, bless you!☕

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In 1908, Vincent teams up with Herr Lönnrot, a Gerheimpolizei (secret police) officer, in order to rise to the rank of Hauptman.

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Cover art for Moth volume 1's script. Moth volume one's script draft will be available soon, I'm putting it in novel format so it's easy to read. The scripts will have simple black and white covers but the comics will have more complex coloured and rendered illustrations. The Moth comics will be released in 99 page black and white issues as they come out, once they are all out, I may re-release them in larger coloured versions, but it's a lot of work that will take a very long time. Moth is written in the same style and spirit as pre-wwi gothic adventure literature, the series focuses on Siegfried Isenstein and Vincent Odinkirk's friendship during the the tumultuous period of 1906-1922.

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Couples at the Officer's Ball, 1906-8. Concept art for Moth. Characters in order of appearance from left to right: Selene von Hinden, Vincent Odinkirk, Adele von Zelewski, Siegfried Isenstein, Agnetha Daum, Leon von Zelewski, Gottlieb Witt, Odette von Ravenmark, Austerlitz von Ravenmark.

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I'm curious about Siegfried's last name. Does "Isenstein" mean in German "iceberg" or something like that?

Thanks for the ask! It means 'Ice stone' but it was possibly an old name for Iceland or someone from Iceland. 'Eisen' is also an Odinic name, there's a list of names that Odin would introduce himself as in mythology as he was a wanderer and shape shifter that didn't give his true name in order to test mortals. In Richard Wagner's opera 'Isenstein' is the name of the place in which the character Siegfried rescues Brunhild. Siegfried's full name is Siegfried Richard Isenstein, sometimes with his mother's maiden name 'von Tilsit' added if he wants to remind his piers he's a nobleman. The relevance of Richard Wagner's work in the narrative of Moth isn't just because I like his music but because it had a massive cultural impact in Europe that lasted up to wwi, lots of boys(not just in Germany) were named 'Siegfried' at this time because of this, Wagner reshaped western Europe's perception of warrior cultures by retelling Celtic and Germanic stories with transcendental themes, the references to Germanic and Celtic history and mythology in Moth are important for showing how Siegfried and Vincent view themselves, and their place in the world. The Celts believed that you were immediately reincarnated after death and if you were a great warrior in life you would be reborn a nobleman or progressively a higher rank with more fame and a better life, all of that is very relevant for Siegfried Isenstein's world view, whether we agree with it or not it's important to see what was going on in people's heads in those days. Such myths would not have been taken literally, but they present a series of values we can expect young men from this time period to take up ardently.

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Prussian Blue and Magenta set.

A set of images of Siegfried Isenstein I drew for an Instagram reel.

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Ludwig annoying Vincent at work.

Ludwig is Vincent's younger brother by 3 years, the second born in their family. Here he has a portable video camera, the tripod is in the cylinder on his belt, and he's wearing a "Kriegspresseamt" armband to make it clear he's here to take videos and photographs, not to kill people.

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Brothers Vincent and Otto Odinkirk hugging in the rain. My main German wwi soldier Ocs from my anti-War comic 'Ottoway'.

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But now seriously.

I'm curious about your whole illustration with that owl 😇

Thanks for the ask, it was drawn from the Nightwish song 'The Crow, The Owl and the Dove," because its one of my favorite songs by one of my favorite bands. Here are both:

There's a fourth verse about a swan that isn't in the title which is why four birds appear in the drawing. Each one has strong symbolic representations. Without looking up what the song is actually about, it seems to be related to trauma or inner chaos that cannot be remedied by the pride of the crow, the wisdom of the owl, the peace of the dove or the beauty of the swan, because what the singer wants is to return to a state of childhood innocence. Someone made a great fan video where they interpreted it as being about the existential dread of a terminally ill child that can't find inner peace, which I'll also link here:

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Read Ottoway volumes 1 & 2 on Patreon!

Now available for paying members.

Read here.

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Eric Ethelstan, our favorite Waterlandian. Commissioned by @polsterreich I love their character designs, very distinct! 🖤🌊

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We're in the evil robots are copying our data so they can kill us time line, 1996 Sonic The Hedgehog OVA has never been more relevant.

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Two ravens and barbed wire. -My wwi German OC, Oberst Vincent Odinkirk, with two of his ravens on his shoulders. Canonically Vincent is never captured, but I saw Marlon Brando posed like this for 'Young Lions' and wanted to draw Vincent that way.

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"The god of plenty" is a short story I wrote last year, and I just stumbled upon it while cleaning up some storage space.

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This is a deleted scene from Ottoway vol 2 showing some of Vincent and Edwin's backstory, it's going to be extended and edited for volume 4 as the story needed much more build up and context. Since the scene deals with some very harsh themes, I'd like to hear opinions on it.

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Why was this deleted? ☹️

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It didn't fit with the pacing and deals with sensitive issues that needed more context. I didn't want to introduce Sven in vol 2 and for him to be absent in vol 3 only to appear again in vol 4. This scene links to Vincent mentioning his cousin who he's not allowed to write to and who took the seal of Askja to Sweden in that flash back scene with Austerlitz (Ottoway vol 2), but this part of the plot can still be deduced; there are hints like that Edwin had the amulet at this time, and that he wants to escape Wwi by going to Sweden and that Edwin's dad died at a fairly young age; this isn't the first time Edwin has ran away from a difficult situation by going to Uppsala. Without this scene it's left more mysterious as to why Vincent was banned from contacting Edwin until he was 18, however there's already an idea that Edwin and Vincent's relationship is important and building to something; their backstory shall be presented in a cleaner, more chronological way in volume 4.

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This is a deleted scene from Ottoway vol 2 showing some of Vincent and Edwin's backstory, it's going to be extended and edited for volume 4 as the story needed much more build up and context. Since the scene deals with some very harsh themes, I'd like to hear opinions on it.

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Pickelhaubes near Bismarck Denkmal Vincent with his hawk Flosshild and his friend Siegfried, stood near the Bismarck Denkmal in Königsberg, in 1908. Vincent is wearing his lieutenant's uniform while Siegfried is still a cadet here. P.S Happy St.Florian's day.