Wednesday, April 28, 2010

36. The Deluge.

Noah, yes. The story about him and his ark is much older than itself.

The first ones we know with certainty told the tale of the big flood was the Sumerians, since they also developed the first real writing language - along with the first city states - where current borders place southern Iraq. The story of the deluge and of Ziusudra, who was both forewarned and given the receipt for a boat by the god Enki, is full of similarities with the Noah myth.

Abraham, by the way, the ancestor of three religions, is supposed to have been raised in one of the Sumerian cities - Ur.

Saturday, April 24, 2010

35. Sighing in the rain.

We're celebrating that it's 3194 years (according to some sources) of the destruction of Troy - thanks to King Odyssevs' ingenuity and King Priam's love of wooden horses - with the very first comic-strip starring Wulf Greybones.

No, I cannot find the connection either.

Sunday, April 18, 2010

33. The pack.

It's no coincidence that this series of animal-pictures ends with one of wolves. My hard-drive is still sick, so in the time to come you'll be able to read an English version of my Norwegian comic-strip Ulveblues - Wolf's Blues.

Saturday, April 17, 2010

32. Wolverine.

He's the best there is at what he does, and looks nothing like Hugh Jackman. Chances are, he's never even heard of the X-men.