#sienkiewicz

[kyuoki]

Bohun this, Skrzetuski that, Kmicic my ass but why is nobody talking about Książe Jeremi Michał Korybut Wiśniowiecki? Don't you see the unlimited dilf potential here? The long hair? The moustache? The power he holds? The terror he ignites in Cossacks? The sick ass outfit? The way he's serving cunt? Dude literally stands next to Vlad The Impaler, vibing as he's impaling his enemies and everybody is what? Sleeping on him. Y'all are sleeping on him.

#i don't care if he has a wife and kids #i want to get impaled by him idc #y'all can fight me #trylogia #ogniem i mieczem #jeremi wiśniowiecki #jarema wiśniowiecki #jeremi michał korybut wiśniowiecki #jarema #sienkiewicz #henryk sienkiewicz #henryk sienkiewicz trylogia #henryk sienkiewicz ogniem i mieczem #jerzy hoffman #andrzej seweryn #andrzej seweryn kniaź jarema #andrzej seweryn jeremi wiśniowiecki #(talking about the movie version ofc) #jarema posting #polskie kino #polish cinema #txt

[balladyiromanse]

MY BABYGIRL POOKIE WOOKIE CUPCAKE PRINCESS

#kmicic #kmicic pocałuj mnie #sienkiewicz #trylogia #kocham capcut

[furordinaricvs]

Alexander Domogarov as Yurko Bohun in "With Fire and Sword", 1999.

#Poland #Polska #With Fire and Sword #Sienkiewicz #Henryk Sienkiewicz

[thealisflore]

#digital doodle #ogniem i mieczem #with fire and sword #sienkiewicz

[polish-manor-house]

10 cm of snow: *falls*

me:

#dworek #polish manor house #poland aesthetic #styl polski #helena kurcewiczówna #noblewoman #szlachta #sienkiewicz #ogniem i mieczem #winter aesthetic #slavic aesthetic #historical fashion

[sienkiewiczowna]

Bohun na zakończenie roku

#jurko bohun #bohun #sienkiewicz #ogniem i mieczem #Henryk Sienkiewicz #bohun edit #jurko bohun edit #polish literature #Polish Cinema #With Fire and Sword #dla fanów bohuna i tylko dla nich #trylogia #trylogia sienkiewicza #aleksandr domogarow

[sienkiewiczowo]

#henryk sienkiewicz #sienkiewicz #trylogia #jan skrzetuski #husarz #fire and sword #ogniem i mieczem #traditional art #rysunek #with fire and sword

[drifting-pieces-blog-blog]

Breaking down the comics: An evening with Bill.

Moon Knight afterward from issue #25. 

Truth, I agonized on if I was going to acknowledge this. My business is with the Moon Knight comics, after all… History, development, and personal insight into the comics. You know, me screaming into a dark room about how much I love this comic. 

But where would we be if we didn’t have a little insight into the legend himself: Bill Sienkiewicz. 

Issue #25 was a special double long comic. These bad boys come out once in a blue moon to celebrate the success and growing popularity of a comic! Once a comic becomes top ranking, you’ll start to get Annuals and yearly (sometimes bi-yearly) double longs! 

So here we sit in 1982, just a few years after the creation of Moon Knight and we get our first double! 

But what really makes you pick up a comic in the store in the first place? Especially if you know nothing about the characters. Sure, Marvel (and DC) will splash a crossover event with a popular character across the cover to lure in those that are fans of the one character. They’ll also do variant covers to get the collectors wild (gotta catch ‘em all!). Limited runs? You know someone’s trolling Ebay for that blank cover that gives nothing away. You’ll also get guest artists who do ONLY covers. Fans of the art will collect them just for the covers. 

But all those special things aside, you know that a well done cover piece is what makes you pick it up and go “Neat. I wonder what’s inside.” 

So what makes a cover? To all the aspiring artists out there, this one’s for you. 

Don’t worry people. I’m not going to make you squint. I’ll just type up everything verbatim that Mr. Sienkiewicz has to say. And I admit, I was so pleasantly surprised to find his sense of humor on point. 

I've also added the final cover product so you can really see how the cover ended up laid out in publishing.

A TALE OF THREE COVERS by Bill Sienkiewicz

When Denny and Ralph asked me to come up with a possible topic for the editorial pages in the double-sized issue of MOON KNIGHT, my first reaction was "Editorial? Isn't that your job? I've just finished the art for this issue and the last thing I feel like doing is an editorial page." Then I made some crack about them earning their money and proceeded to walk out. 

"Hold it!" Denny snapped, bringing his riding crop down smartly on the New York Post. I turned, my nostrils filling with the stench of wounded printer's ink, and did some serious reconsideration. 

"Look," Denny began, "I don't want you to get the idea that this is something you have to do," his gloved hand waving the riding crop in what could be construed as a menacing fashion, "But we'd like to give you the opportunity to do something that you'd like to do to get you involved in EVERY aspect of the book, not just the artwork, to tell the readers some of your viewpoints and..." Denny leaned back, crossed his jackbooted feet on the desk. He smiled a wicked smile "...to let the readers know that we're just one big family here at Marvel. My mind raced. 

"Covers." I said. 

"What?" asked Denny, cocking a thumb under the visor of his cap. Light glinted off some odd metallic insignia there. 

"Covers." I repeated. "Unused covers." 

"Go on..." He crossed his arms awkwardly, creasing his holster.

"Well... The covers -the unused one-- we could run them along with the ones that were used, and I could write about the dumb...the uh, reasons that they weren't used, you know, why I did them the way I did and why you turned them down." 

There was a long pause. Very long. Then he smiled again. Only worse than before, and said -- "We'll do it..."

I relaxed. I turned to leave but Denny wasn't finished. "Sienkiewicz," he hissed. 

I cringed. "Yeah?" 

"Don't make me look like the bad guy in this." 

"No. Of course not." I said, then turned I left. 

I returned one week later, armed with the covers and my feelings about each. I walked into Denny's office and snapped to attention. The Post was still on the desk. It had decayed horribly "At ease." Denny cooed. He shot a sly grin at Ralph. 

"What did our little artist friend bring us perchance?" Said Ralph as he woke up, "Our meal ticket?" 

Denny's smile faded. "You can be replaced, Macchio." 

I looked at Ralph. Innocent of face. Stubbly of beard. Ralph. Ralph Macchio. Ralph went back to sleep. There was a smile on his face. 

Denny turned back to me. "What have you got?" 

This--" I replied, and proceeded to show him what a week of coffee, cigarettes and images of a mutilated newspaper had inspired.

"First: Issue #9's cover for The Return of the Midnight Man. I wanted to do a total image, an essence of the relationship between him and Moon Knight. The paintings --the Jekyll and Hyde shots of Midnight Man's face. The target around Moon Knight. Moon Knight's expression of worry and insanity --He was going through a lot back then." 

"That's all well and good--" Denny smirked. "But it's too tall--the paintings would be obscured by the logo. All that we could see would be the two big faces and MK going crazy. And he's been crazy or in a losing position on the past five covers. I wanted to show him fighting, maybe winning. I thought about it. I really did. But you were moving to a studio and couldn't be reached in time to do another. Frank Miller was in the office and drew the cover that was used." 

"Oh," I said. My hand shook as I reached for another cover. Number 12. Morpheus and Moon KNight. Boffo action. "I wanted a closeup," Denny said. "Simple as that. Miller was in again and did it up. Milgrom inked it." 

"That Miller guy again." I thought. 

I turned to issue 13, which guest-starred Daredevil. Frank was drawing Daredevil. Denny thought it would be fun to have Frank draw the cover and me ink it. I agreed. I spoke to Frank on the phone. He said we could do "crossover" covers; I'd do one later for Daredevil. Fine idea. "What are you waiting for, Sienkiewicz, "Denny screamed, interrupting my reverie. Veins showed in his forehead. Big ones. 

"Right," I said. "The cover for issue 13--Frank pencilled, I inked. I really had a good time with this one. It was the first time I inked anyone else's work." 

Denny Scowled. "Except it was too tall. The logo would have obscured the pinball machine's scoreboard. That's why I nixed it. Ron Wilson happened to drop by the same time as Dave Simons did. The deadline was tight. I had no alternative. They did the cover." 

Deja vu. Denny was beating a dead Post. "That will be all for now. And Sienkiewicz--About the article. Flattery will get you nowhere." 

I managed a weak smile, and again turned to leave. As I did so, I glanced at Ralph Macchio, his eyes closed in contented slumber.

—

Ralph Macchio is a comic book editor and writer. He's done a lot of the big ones (The Avengers, Captain America, Ultimate Marvel, Doctor Strange, Thor, Spider-Man...). He retired in 2011. 

Dennis O'Neil (Denny) is the editor for Moon Knight at the time. He also worked for DC back in the day. He tended to write the more mature themes in early comics that were often controversial. Also the creator of notable characters like Ra's Al Ghul, Talia Al Ghul, Iron Monger, Lady Deathstrike, and many others that I have no idea who they are off the top of my head. 

If anything, I am more endered towards Bill after this. The idea of him turning in cover after cover only to have them nixed and replaced by the LEGENDARY Frank Miller, and then being playfully bitter about it is the funniest thing. The notion that these other cover artists just happened to be hanging around only to ruin Bill’s day… 

Also, some of those nixed covers are amazing! The Dare Devil one in particular is amazing! And relevant to the comic! I wish I could see it in color! What happens to these rejected covers? Do they get sold? Trashed? Look at that Midnight one!

Anyway, there are a lot of little afterwards in the backs of the early comics. A lot of letters from fans with author/editor responses mostly. But now and then they include a behind the scenes with narrative from various levels of Moon Knight creators. My favorites are these ones that show the character of the creators themselves. It also gives us a peak at the process of how a comic is made and the art and skill it takes. 

Current comics don’t really include these anymore. You’ll see some fan letters in the backs of some (I’ve been in one! For a Moon Knight of course.), and a few spotlight articles on writers or artists… But you don’t really get the big behind the scenes things anymore. The characters are all established, the readers/fanbase know what they’re in, and there just doesn’t seem to be interest anymore into the creation of the comics. 

Which is a pity. 

I’d love to see more excerpts like this. Imagine getting an aside from Lemier!Jed Mackay! Smallwood! 

What do you think? What afterwards would you like to see in modern day comics? 

#Moon Knight #Moon Knight comics #Bill Sienkiewicz #Sienkiewicz #Analyzing the comics #I fucking love this

[theophan-o]

Miesięcznicowy Michałek

#pan wołodyjowski #fire in the steppe #przygody pana michała #michał wołodyjowski #tadeusz łomnicki #trylogia #sienkiewicz #jerzy hoffman #trylogiarchive #trylogia sensem życia

[pol-ski]

Vinicius and Lygia (H. Sienkiewicz, Quo Vadis) by Mieczysław Reyzner (Polish, 1861-1941)

#quo vadis #mieczysław reyzner #poland #polish art #mieczyslaw reyzner #reyzner #polska #polish painter #polish painters #christian #couple aesthetic #christianity #marcus vinicius #lygia #henryk sienkiewicz #roman empire #polish literature #polishcore #sienkiewicz #christian love #*

[gucio]

Dowiedziałam się, że dzisiaj - 14 listopada - jest rocznica premiery Przygód Pana Michała, więc tak na szybko sobie coś skleiłam, bo i tak mnie nosi, żeby to znowu obejrzeć i się nakręcam.

#wczoraj ściągnęłam sobie cały serial w celach editowych (i gifowych) właśnie - taki szczęśliwy zbieg okoliczności #trylogia #sienkiewicz #przygody pana michała #pan wołodyjowski #ketling #trylogia edit

[archvampyr]

Boguś bby

#muszę więcej rysować sama dla siebie a nie da tych choler z uczelni #pollit #potop #polish literature #watercolor #polish history #drawing #art #traditional art #trylogia #sienkiewicz #potop sienkiewicz

[hipersomniaaa]

the emptiness after finishing a wip,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, sometimes i do understand why Sienkiewicz wrote 99393 books with 20020202 pages using the same characters over and over again

#writing #sienkiewicz #nienwidzę dziada piernika zasuszonego aaaa #andrzej kmicic the blorbest blorbo

[sienkiewiczowna]

Dwa lata temu siedziałem sobie w pokoju i nagle pomyślałem, że piękna byłaby scena w „Ogniem i Mieczem”, w której Michał spotyka Horpynę, która wróży mu, że „umrze za tą, którą kocha najbardziej”.

#Pan Wołodyjowski #michał wołodyjowski #baśka x michał #ale bardziej michał x ojczyzna #Henryk Sienkiewicz #sienkiewicz #edit #polish literature #Polish Cinema #polish film #polish culture #ketling #trylogia #trylogia sienkiewicza #tribute #mały rycerz

[romantyczni-pozytywisci]

Reading Quo vadis during lecture about art of ancient Greece and Rome was such a strange mind state

#Sienkiewicz #Quo vadis

[drifting-pieces-blog-blog]

Breaking Down the Comics: Teaming up with the Devil.

Moon Knight Issue #13: The Cream of the Jest. (1981) 

Moon Knight's first team up! Daredevil! 

At this point, he probably has appeared in the background of other comics and maybe even been badly sketched in one or two group shots. 

But this is the first Moon Knight comic that features another hero. 

And of course it's DareDevil. 

And thus we start Matt and Marc's long competition of who can be the most dramatically angst ridden. 

....I think Matt is winning. 

I'd also like to point out that ANY TIME Moon Knight teams up with someone, the issue always starts off with them fighting. (There is one hilarious exception and that is Franke Castle, who instantly bonded with Moon Knight and was like his BFF. That issue comes later). 

It's like anyone in the Avengers sees Moon Knight and kill bill sirens start playing. 

So the issue opens on Grand mansion and Jake (clothes and mustache make the man) is at the table reading the paper. He's not happy because someone he stopped as Moon Knight just got out on parole for being a 'model prisoner'. 

I want to point something out here: NEDDA THE COOK is better at respecting Jake than Marlene. 

She's still calling him Steven but whn Jake gets up to leave, Nedda takes the time to get it right: 

"Very well, master....ah, Jake." 

Little old granny Nedda! 

As Jake leaves, Marlene calls after Steven. 

"The name is Jake now, Lady." As he gets into his cab. 

Cut to two guys scheming together about what to do after they get out of jail. One promised to kill Moon Knight as his first act out of jail. The other is a villian named "The Jester '' because he had a poor stage performance and got booed off the stage once. 

He plans to ruin the director that fired him during his big big triumphant return to the stage. 

He also deeply hates DareDevil for putting him away. 

It's surprisingly easy to become a villain in the marvel universe. 

Yep, just as Moon Knight is planning to watch his guy, DareDevil plans to follow his own villain. I....I'm going to have to show you the glory of this age of DareDevil. 

Behold: 

Matt….What are you doing…. Was this the best way to do this? 

So the Jester is preparing for his scheme, putting together his 'deadly toys' and so on. 

He heads to the city and DareDevil follows. 

Meanwhile, Moon Knight is hot on the trail too. 

And he spots DareDevil, but he worries DareDevil is going to get in the way before the Jester leads him to his guy. 

Unfortunately the Jester nearly gets hit by a car and in New York fashion, the driver chews him out, leading to the Jester hitting him in the face with a Yo-yo. 

DareDevil assumes the worst and is ready to jump in and take him down. 

And so, Moon Knight is forced to interfere to keep DareDevil from ruining his plan. 

What does he do? Of course the most sensible thing and talks to him, right? NOPE. Throws one of his crescent darts at DareDevil and cuts his Billy Club Line. 

....And DareDevil lands in an arcade. Because of course he does. 

If you've read any DareDevil comics, you'll know that DD's greatest weakness (besides his crippling catholic guilt) is having his hearing overwhelmed. 

So while DareDevil is stunned and having a bad time with the loud sounds, Moon Knight straight up tackles him. 

Yeah, that's not how you make friends, Moon Knight. 

Jester stands outside the arcade watching the fight. 

I can't even imagine the citizen's of New York also watching these two idiots fight in an arcade. 

Jester runs off to carry out his plan. 

While DareDevil swings Moon Knight around on a billy club line. 

And Moon Knight throws his own Truncheon (big stick thing to hit people with). 

DareDevil is still off balance by the arcade sounds and gets whacked right in the face.

It's at this point that they've made a right mess of the arcade and the citizens decide they've had enough. 

Put to shame by the arcade patrons, Moon Knight FINALLY introduces himself. 

"The Name's Moon Knight, Daredevil, and it seems to me that enough is--"

"Right--Enough. We've almost hurt some innocent people as it is." 

They make up and decide to team up to stop the bad guys. 

Meanwhile, the Jester has made it to the theater and sends in his robots to cause chaos. 

They crash the play and take the audience hostage while the Jester does his thing. 

They proceed to rob the place. 

Running up to the theater, Moon Knight spots his man in the getaway car playing lookout. 

On a walkie talkie, he tells Jester that the cops are coming. 

They have a getaway plan, though. "Go get the helicopter, Taggert-and pick me up on the theater's roof in say, a half hour?" 

Look at my boy go. Sending people to ‘Dreamtime”. I’m not sure that makes sense. Did you mean Dreamland? I’ll give him the benefit of the doubt, he did take a few DareDevil hits to the head, after all. 

He calls Frenchie in his chopper and tells him to get ready for a plan. 

You gotta love the early comics. They were about fun and surprises. Even when you could see where they were going, you had no idea how they would pull off the gag. 

DareDevil meets with the police at the baracaid. 

"You can't go barging in there--He's got five hundred hostages!" 

You can't stop DareDevil when the law is being broken. 

"...And not even the Jester can laugh at the law. I'm bringing him to justice." 

And he dramatically vaults the baracaid. 

He's just so passionate about the law....

He runs in before the Jester can hurt someone and jumps through a background prop. 

And I do mean through. He busts through like the Kool-Aid-Man. 

"DareDevil! Bursting through the scenery! But I thought you were--" 

"Trading punches with Moon Knight? Sorry to disappoint you, but we kissed and made up -- Deciding our punches would be better spent on YOU, Jester!" 

Gotta love old comic dialogue. You just... You just have to appreciate it. 

The robots attack DareDevil and Moon Knight busts in to help take them out. 

It goes about as well as it usually does.

 Why does he always look so utterly helpless all the time? I’ve never seen someone spend so much time face down on the floor. That’s not just me, right? Does he splat on the floor a lot?

He jumps on a robot and just beats the shit out of it. 

Moon Knight has never been about elegance. He's not going to flip around like DD. He's always been about brute force. 

He just has no regard for his own limitations or safety. He always just goes into every fight hoping to dish out more hits than he takes. 

The Jester makes a run for it and Moon Knight lets him go. 

This is what I like about some of the older comics. You get a lot of dynamic poses. You just don’t see art like this too often anymore. 

Also, you get a lot of glimpses at Moon Knight’s sense of humor. 

Later, in the late 90s and early 2000s, a lot of comics took a dark turn and became more edgy. Moon Knight took that turn too, but Early Moon Knight really did have a sense of humor that was fun. 

You even see in some Marc Spector flash backs and side shorts that Marc was a bit of a doofus. Something I miss at times. Seeing how much of an goof he was. 

You see bits of that in modern Mr. Knight at times, but still not as carefree as it was. 

Anyways, Jester runs to the roof looking for his partner in crime to pick him up in a helicopter. 

And he sees one coming with a rope ladder! 

Getting on the ladder, he laughs about outwitting DD and MK. 

MK explains to DD who, when you think about it, has no idea what's going on, since he can't see the copter. 

"You see, that's MY helicopter... Piloted by MY partner, not his, and his ultimate destination is the True cream of the frothy jest..." 

He tells Frenchie to take him down. 

And the helicopter lands him right in the middle of the police line while he's screaming at what he thinks is his partner. 

I want to say that this issue was just outright fun. 

Even in the fun, you still get a Jake moment, asserting his identity and it was really nice to see someone in the Grant mansion acknowledge it and trying. 

ALso, Sienkiewicz went OFF on this issue. The lines and faces were just amazing and a real pleasure to look at. 

Marlene is no longer just a vague woman shape in a sexy pink nightgown like she is in SO MANY of the earlier issues. 

Gena, Jake, and Crawley are all carefully inked out and even the clothes and lines in the shirts are just stunning. 

I also REALLY enjoyed the way Moon Knight's eyes were so easy to read in the black void of his mask. 

I've always loved how the eyes are the only thing you can see and how they give away so much. It's like looking at an all black cat in the dark and suddenly big bright eyes look up at you. 

There are also a lot of new angles and action poses that you don't get in the earlier issues. I think after a few years, Sienkiewicz really came into his own and started experimenting and having fun. 

Hats off to this issue. While not a big important one, it is still a pretty good one in the Moon Knight history. 

#moon knight #moon knight comics #analyzing the comics #Marc Spector #Steven Grant #jake lockey #Why do I do these at midnight? #No one's even awake to read it? #wtf is a q #I love old comic humor #the art is so pretty here too #Moench #Sienkiewicz #Dare Devil #Team up #DD is such a cranky guy #Seriously every time MK meets someone he fights them #Marc no