This is painted in Solas’s style, meaning it could be another work of his similar to the murals found in Trespasser. For all speculation past this point, I will assume such.
1. The Idol
Carved from red lyrium, depicting an crone-like figure holding a body by the head. The crone looks to the sky. Upon her head is a diamond shape found in imagery of both Andraste and Mythal. The crone’s skin seems stretched, almost mummified, while the second body is more emaciated and skeletal.
2. The Surrounding Circle
Whether or not this is a representation of magic being cast, a barrier around the idol, or simply symbolic of the narrative, it could have more significance than given at first glance. There are seven domes around the outside of the circle: five dim, and two filled with light. This could be a connection to the five slain archdemons and the two that still slumber beneath Thedas, Razikale and Lusacan. Otherwise, the pattern has no other connections I can think of at this time.
3. The Figure
An unknown elf standing on burning ground. We’ve seen how Solas paints himself, so it is safe to say that this is not another self portrait. The figure has shoulder length, light hair and is dressed in a fur cloak. They are holding a staff similar in shape to The Heart of Pride and seem to be either blocking the Dread Wolf or casting a spell. They stand in front of a tree.
4. The Barren Tree
A tree burnt by the fire covering the landscape. Either ash or paint covers its side. The city elves living in alienages plant a lone tree in the center called a Vhenadahl, symbolising everything that the elves have lost when Arlathan fell. The composition of the mural places the elf in front of the tree, almost protecting what remains of elven culture from the wolf looming over it.
5. The Wolf
Compared to how Solas has painted the Dread Wolf before, this representation is downright sinister. The glowing eyes and sharp teeth make this enormous figure all the more menacing. The swirls of paint in the body give it a smoke-like texture.
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That idol really looks like what happened to Meredith huh?
Maybe Andraste didn’t burn at the stake after all.
Bezoar is a monster-themed mini-comics anthology, started by a small group of Athens, GA cartoonists. However, for issue 3, we’re doing something a little different…
Bezoar contributor, incredible cartoonist, and wonderful pal Patrick Dean has recently come under some pretty severe health problems, being diagnosed with ALS.
As Patrick’s friends and fellow cartoonists, the Bezoar crew decided that we wanted to help out in any way we could. We decided it was time to put together a new issue of Bezoar, extend the net of creators further to include other friends & colleagues of Patrick’s, and use whatever funds come from it for his benefit! All money from sales of Bezoar 3 will go to Patrick and his family to assist with medical bills, quality of life, and just as a way to let them know we care.
So, let’s talk about Bezoar 3!
As with the previous issues, Bezoar’s theme is MONSTERS. Creators are welcome to interpret that however they like. Check out this killer list of contributors!
Drew Weing
Patrick Dean
Wes Brooks
Wook Jin Clark
Adam Daughhetee
Duane Ballenger
David Mack
Shawn Daughhetee
Scott Stripling
J Chris Campbell
Rich Tommaso
Joey Weiser
Eleanor Davis
Lee Gatlin Michele Chidester
As you can see from a few examples posted below, Bezoar 3 has a wide variety of work, ranging from spooky to delightful in mood and art style!
This anthology is 40 pages of monster greatness! Now, you have a few options for how to read Bezoar 3…
Limited Edition – Screen printed color cover, only 50 available, $10. Buy Online!
***We have marked the Limited Edition as ‘Sold Out’ for the time being. We have a few copies left that we will be selling in person at The Athica Holiday Market, and after that event we will be putting any remaining copies back for sale online. Thanks for your support!***
Regular Edition – Black & white cover, $5. Buy Online!
The beautiful cover was created by David Mack who screen printed the Limited Editions. The logo, designed by Drew Weing, is hand-stamped and embossed on each cover, both Limited and Regular Editions!
We’re all very proud of this book, and we all hope that you’ll check it out! Be it the Limited, Regular, or Digital Edition, this is a great way to help out a member of our community and get some great monster comics!
It’s not just Tumblr, people. This shit is getting ridiculous.
Of course it’s not Tumblr!
They came for Craigslist personals first because that’s the oldest trick in the book: Sneakily taking down the ‘perverts’ under the guise of vague, high morality goals and working slowly up from the bottom, picking off larger and larger targets. Few people cared about CL because of the stereotype of scary unwashed creeps trawling for sex online. That wasn’t so familiar or cute so it was fair game.
Tumblr is biting at the ‘artists’ heels and suddenly there is a bit more noise, because artists aren’t supposed to be treated like shit, are they? However even now the hair-splitting over what’s porn and therefore garbage and not-art shows that attitudes are not so different. It’s still the same divisive, dangerous us v.s. themmentality that is so easily exploited.
This is why when people tell me I shouldn’t worry about this because ‘my art isn’t porn anyway’ it makes me angry. It means so much more than drawings or a silly blog. This is about people being slowly phased out of their freedoms, rights and agency. History has shown time and time again that whenever power wants to make a crushing move backwards, it comes for what it declares ‘obscene’ first. People are raised to be scared and ignorant of sex so it’s an easy gateway. When they come cracking down on sex is when we most need to pay very close attention. They are not protecting us.
Yeah. This isn’t about whether *you*, specifically, don’t want NSFW content shoved in front of your eyeballs, it’s about whether the people who want to see NSFW content have the right to see it *at all*.
It’s also about what counts as ‘nsfw’ or ‘pornographic’ content. The article hints at it but doesn’t state it directly, but LGBT content – any LGBT content, even the most G-rated or strictly informative kind – is usually an early target in the name of ‘cleaning up’ a website. (YouTube, for example, is already guilty of doing this.)
LETS PLAY A GAME. It’s called: Who directed it TIM BURTON or HENRY SELICK
We’ll start with the 2009 Laika film Coraline based on the novel by Neil Gaiman. Do you know who directed it? Burton or Selick?
Did you guess yet?
If you guessed Henry Selick, you would be correct. Tim Burton actually had absolutely nothing to do with Coraline at all in anyway ever. Reminder: Tim Burton has NOTHING to do with Coraline. At all. But that was an easy one. Let’s go to the Walt Disney Pictures adaptation of Roald Dahl’s novel, James and the GiantPeach next.
Think you got it? Are you sure? Better double check…
Oh, look. It’s Henry Selick again! Tim Burton actually interacted with this project, though only as a producer. Bet that was tricky… Next one! Let’s go to the Disney/Touchstone Pictures film Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas.
Have you guessed it correctly? Have you really?
Yep that’s right. Even Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas was directed by Henry Selick. Though Burton wrote the poem and created the characters in which Nightmare was based he didn’t have much interaction with the project beyond that. At the time he had already signed off to direct the film Batman Returns and did not want to be involved with the “painstakingly slow process of stop-motion animation.”
Looks like it was a trick quiz. But now you know Henry Selick, whom people rarely know of is responsible for many of the most well known stop-motion animated films. The more you know!
This isn’t even being qeued. This is just being reblogged, because some of you still don’t understand who directed Coraline.
You guys don’t understand, Henry Selick was so happy and so incredibly nice and grateful that there was a festival solely dedicated to the art of Stop Motion and that he was an invited guest. He was treated like a superstar in his craft, and he was absolutely surprised.
All stop motion animators were actually. So please please please, appreciate this guy and his hard work in his key role at keeping stopmotion animation alive and well today.
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