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Free Comic Book Day

Free Comic Book Day is the first Saturday in May. It was started to encourage people to visit their local comics shops, by offering them a selection of small comics they could take home absolutely free. I launched my Patreon on Free Comic Book Day seven years ago, and it’s been my tradition ever since to unlock a bunch of posts and invite the Internet in to have a nose round. Alas I am far too…

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here is a compilation of Terra Nova voices i put together! featuring Teddy, Ponting, Deb, Clissold, Silas, Griff, Priestley which i think are all the ones that exist...? if there is one i am missing please tell me so i can track it down :)

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More caricatures by Dennis G. Lillie (clockwise from top left: Bill, Bruce, group scene, Griff, Simpson)

#lillie

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hello, I just browsed through your character sheets on your patreon (amazing btw!) and was fascinated by an anecdote about Silas having a laughing fit because of a dance mishap? Do you know more about this story? It sounds like such a funny scene!

This comes from Tryggve Gran's diary. It was the night they celebrated the Return of the Sun in the miserable Second Winter. They knew their friends were dead, they didn't know how; the weather was constantly atrocious – they needed a party, and even though no one saw the sun (because there was a blizzard, of course) they celebrated its astronomical return with a big bust-up all the same.

Besides, there was a lot of alcohol to put away before the ship returned to take them all home.

Anyway, Gran records:

We acted like a pack of schoolboys who had just been set loose on holiday. Nelson and I danced a 'mixed Cakewalk Fandango.' Wright was the judge of the dance, the last part of which ended as follows: a somersault by Gran knocked Nelson out of the dance, causing the judge, Wright, a paralysis of laughter which resulted in his making acquaintance with the floor of the hut. His hilarity was uncontrollable, and we the artists didn't find it easy to help in this situation. Wright was therefore carried off to bed where he laughed himself to sleep. — The Norwegian with Scott, p.206

After this, Gran, Keohane, Williamson, Nelson, Atkinson and Debenham launched into a sing-song, with the cook Archer joining them after midnight. They kept going until 2.

That's one of my favourite little Silas anecdotes, so thanks for asking!

#silas wright #charles seymour wright #tryggve gran #terra nova expediton #second winter #happy birthday Silas

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Birdie and Rennick being pals in the front, aww.

3 different versions of the same potato quality newspaper image, Australia 1910

#terra nova #terra nova expediton #new photo klaxon #photo #In Australia or from an Australian paper? #Or both?

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March 29th

Originally posted on Patreon, 29 March 2022 And so the Earth completes another circuit of the sun, and once again we’re back at the High Holy Day of the Terra Nova calendar. March 29th, 1912 is the last entry in Scott’s diary, and since he was pretty much the only one still writing at that point, it’s the day we mark the demise of the Polar Party, and by extension the rest of the Expedition, is remembered.  Just as the Endurance is most famous for sinking, Scott is most famous for dying – in fact, to a large extent, that's all most people know about him and his companions, if they know anything at all.

But they were also alive ...

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#terra nova expedition #scott expedition #polar party #death #legacy #history #historiography #robert falcon scott #march 29th

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I think this was a meme, once? Anyway, the Tom Crean Quadrant.

#tom crean #linkedin #facebook #instagram #tinder

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I'm cleaning out my temp folder, mostly screencaps. Thought this deserved an airing.

R-L Tigger, Arthur Shappey, Doc Brown, and the Designated Dad

"Fun", yeah, let me get back to you on that one.

#terra nova expediton #motor party #teddy evans #frederick hooper #bernard day #william lashly #“fun” #google image search

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#for the greater good #help a fandom out #who knows #the bacon you save may be your own

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The best thing about this, to me, is that they mount him just at the right height to encourage rubbing his nose.

I hope this feature is maintained in the renovation ...

where's that post about the noses of dog statues turning gold from all the pats, i found the best statue in the christchurch museum

polar explorer roald amundsen, everyone

#roald amundsen #canterbury museum #christchurch #statuary

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Interesting to see how these correspond – and don’t – with my choices of In Memoriam quotes for the chapters of the graphic novel.

Terra Nova pictures of Edward Wilson, Henry Bowers and Apsley Cherry-Garrard + extracts from Tennyson’s In Memoriam

#terra nova #terra nova expedition #tennyson #in memoriam #epigraphs #apsley cherry-garrard #poetry #the worst journey in the world #reblogging to the correct blog this time

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Radio 3 aired a whole hour+ programme of music and reading about and inspired by Antarctica.

If you call to mind an image of Antarctica, it is likely you will come up with something informed by the heroic but ultimately unsuccessful Endurance Expedition led by Sir Ernest Shackleton. That’s because the extraordinary photographs and film from that trip planted the so-called White Continent in our imaginations for ever. Shackleton, who was born in Ireland in February 1874 before moving to London as a boy, might be best known for that failed trip but the fact that his crew survived, when so many did not, is now seen as a credit to his exceptional leadership skills. Today’s Words and Music is a tribute to the frozen landscape that inspired the heroic age of exploration. It is not just remote - it contains the world's highest, driest, coldest and windiest places. And these days it’s a hub of scientific discovery, international diplomacy and environmental change too. We’ll hear fiction from Beryl Bainbridge to Edgar Allan Poe, poetry from Samuel Taylor Coleridge to Derek Mahon, memoir from Jenny Diski and Sara Wheeler as well David Attenborough, Maori scientists and other Polar Explorers. Alongside you’ll hear hugely varied music inspired by Antarctica from Vaughan Williams to Tanya Ekanayaka, from The Muppets to Nigel Westlake and Cab Calloway. Our readers are Jessica Turner and John Lightbody.

#radio #media #music #shackleton #sara wheeler #beryl bainbridge #edgar allan poe #ralph vaughan williams #antarctica #poetry

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Hot diggity, never seen the middle one before!

Terra Nova expedition survivors return to New Zealand, 1913

#new photo klaxon #terra nova photos #photos

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Actual footage of Teddy Evans arriving anywhere:

Did you need a photo of Teddy flexing his medal game with the Australian Navy in 1929? Because Google apparently thought I did.

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#teddy evans

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Did you need a photo of Teddy flexing his medal game with the Australian Navy in 1929? Because Google apparently thought I did.

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#teddy evans #edward ratcliffe garth russell evans #photos #navy #medals #he comes with decorations #like a little christmas tree

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I got asked again today whether I'll be doing Shackleton next, so I finally got around to making that FAQ.

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Titus' bemused stand-up comedian face in this exposure is such a classic.

Terra Nova expedition before departure in Lyttleton, 1910 (hi-res)

#terra nova expediton #photos