#Mort Green

[thybreadmolds]

Ka-Frickin’ Boom, Baby!

[travsd]

On Donna Jean Young and "Vaudeville"

Today we treat of two separate but very much related topics of roughly equal obscurity. I can’t recall which one I learned about first, but we start with comedienne Donna Jean Young (1936-2010) because May 29 was her birthday. And this will be one of those happy occasions where Travalanche is your best, very nearly ONLY source of centralized info. As the 1969 record album cover above more than…

[queer-ragnelle]

Do you have a guide/a recommended reading list for getting into Arthurian legends? I’ve been really getting into it in the past few months but I feel like I’m missing out on a lot of the foundations of it. (If you don’t and this is too big of an ask totally feel free to ignore this lol)

hello, anon.

i don't currently although i have plans to add another page to my blog listing medieval texts as well as links to download pdfs of them. i have english translations of texts originating in belarussian, dutch, french, german, hebrew, italian, latin, middle english, and last but not least, welsh.

in the mean time, i've collected for you some key texts that are readily available to read for free online!

le morte d'arthur by sir thomas malory [part 1] [part 2]

the history of the britons by nennius [here]

the mabinogion translated by lady charlotte guest [here]

four romances by chrétien de troyes [here]

parzival by wolfram von eschenbach [part 1] [part 2]

the wedding of sir gawain and dame ragnelle translated by thomas hahn [here]

sir gawain and the green knight translated by j. r. r. tolkien [here]

better translations/formatting forthcoming! enjoy. :^)

[casser-starkling]

thinking about sir gawain… whose whole quest was about kissing dudes and lying about wearing a slutty little girdle…

[browsethestacks]

Leading Comics #01 (Winter1941)

Art by Mort Meskin

[hardoncaulfield]

admittedly I have not read that many texts but I really enjoy how Gawaine is characterised on a sliding scale from ‘most pleasant man you’ll ever meet’ to ‘considers murder a rewarding daily exercise’

[themortaldraw]

thanks all artists giving echos of wisdom zelda brown eyes to match the toy style. means a lot

[smashedpages]

Today in 1941, More Fun Comics #73 launched another new feature -- Green Arrow by Mort Weisinger and George Papp! Oliver Queen has gone on to star in multiple series, miniseries and team books over the years, adding to the Green Arrow family with characters like Black Canary, Arsenal and more!

[rps-addicted]

Alternate open species Anime Club

What have I done?

The Piquelin and the Nimbura species belong to me.

The Steloma and the Haramimpi species belong to @atmolyth

[chernobog13]

LEADING COMICS #2 (March, 1942). Cover by Mort Meskin.

The Seven Soldiers of Victory, aka Law's Legionnaires, take on the evil Black Star!

The SSV were DC Comics' (then known as National) second super-hero team, after the more famous Justice Society of America. And like the JSA, all the SSV members appeared in anthology titles, but not their own comic books (that rule would eventually be lifted for the JSA).

The Justice Society was comprised of heroes from both National (Doctor Fate, Hourman, the Spectre, Sandman, Starman, and honorary members Superman and Batman) and affiliated publisher All-American Publications (Flash, Green Lantern, Atom, Hawkman, Wonder Woman, Johnny Thunder, Wildcat, Doctor Mid-Nite, Black Canary, and Mr. Terrific)*. The Seven Soldiers, on the other hand, came only from National's books.

Unfortunately, this second-hand team with second-tier heroes didn't last. The Soldiers' feature ended in Leading Comics #14 (March, 1945), although the individual members did manage to last a little longer in their own features before disappearing by the end of the decade.

Although The Vigilante managed to get his own 1947 movie serial. And Green Arrow and Speedy became part of a handful of DC superheroes (along with Superman, Batman, Robin, Wonder Woman and Aquaman) who were published continually from their first appearance until well into the Silver Age.

(That's right - Green Lantern, Flash, Wonder Woman, Hawkman, Johnny Thunder, Atom, Wildcat, Doctor Mid-Nite, Black Canary and Mr. Terrific weren't originally DC characters! They only became part of DC officially when National and All-American merged into one company in 1944.)

[sailorleucine]

hiiiiii !! hi all !!

i've been busy with work and other things but here's two ocs i finally got to drawing

the first one is Ted, a mechanic who who works in partnership with McFist Industries.. also Mick's dad. The second one is his son Mikey, who's Mick's older brother (by one year) ... he's on the Soccer team ...

I might do more things with them ,,,

(there's a bunch of extra info in the tags)

[mariocki]

Le lac des morts vivants (Zombie Lake, 1981)

"Stories about the lake of the damned go back to the Inquisition. They used to celebrate Black Masses back in the Middle Ages: they would sacrifice children, which they threw into it so as to appease the spirits which otherwise rose out of their watery grave in search of blood. And we too, we've used it as an unholy grave during the war. But the soldiers we threw in were not a sacrifice... and they're coming back with a vengeance."

[oldshowbiz]

1982.

CBS censored Shecky Greene and Cloris Leachman for making fun of President Reagan.

[queer-ragnelle]

Hi! Your flowchart is amazing, and I'm so excited by the literature list you made. However, I was wondering if you know which book is best to start reading more about Arthurian legend? I have only collected knowledge through osmosis, so I have no clue where or how to start learning more. Thank you for your time and have a nice day!

hello!

thank you, i'm glad they're helpful for you! i did answer a similar ask about what medieval texts to begin with here and link to free resources, but the formatting is hard on the eyes, and now that my own collection is available, i'll reiterate. all suggested translations are available on my blog.

le morte d'arthur by sir thomas malory: you'll get the most mileage out of this book as malory sourced a broad spectrum of stories to incorporate them into a single text, which includes arthur's conception, pulling the sword from the stone, receiving excalibur from the lady of the lake, marrying to guinevere, young gawain's knighting and first quest, tristan and isolde's romance, the grail quest, final battle at camlann etc. plus malory himself invented some of the most iconic stories, such as gareth's time as the kitchen boy, beaumains. with this book alone, the majority of retellings will make sense to you. but be warned it can be extremely dry (and confusing timeline wise, calogrenant dies twice bc malory couldn't keep his own story straight!), i recommend the keith baines translation as it's rewritten into prose like a novel.

the vulgate cycle: it's 10 books. i know it's 10 books. but it's simply the best. the truncated nature of malory's le morte d'arthur leaves the majority of characters reduced to singular traits (orkney bros the mindless killers, priggish grail knights etc.) which has negatively influenced many retellings since imo. this is not an issue with the vulgate where everyone has a little more nuance and depth, even the bad guys, but especially the characters we're supposed to root for like lancelot and gawain. many fun characters who were cut from le morte d'arthur are fully developed here like half-giant galehaut and gawain's baby mama the lady of lys. i'm putting it high on the list bc i simply think more people should try it. i recommend the translation edited by norris j. lacy. he's incredible and i love all of his translation work. footnotes right in the margin will remind the reader of past references and explain language subtleties lost in translation (like puns) or indicate what was changed for ease of understanding (sometimes the scribes made mistakes and named the wrong character, which lacy will fix and then note he fixed). so if one can get past the sheer volume of text, it's a wonderful read, and i even have specific stories within it i could recommend. but i digress...

sir gawain and the green knight: it goes without saying this poem is iconic. the pearl poet (as the anonymous author is called) wrote beautifully and the version of gawain here is a much kinder portrayal than what he appears in the post vulgate, which was a major source for malory's le morte d'arthur. the beheading exchange/game is the focus here, although this motif will appear in many other texts, such as perlesvaus, and the sgatgk story appears in the majority of retellings that include gawain, so it's a must read. i recommend the j. r. r. tolkien translation (the audiobook version of this translation is phenomenal, like music).

four arthurian romances + the story of the grail by chrétien de troyes: except you can skip cligés bc its mediocre at best. really what you'll need from this is knight of the cart (the first ever story in which lancelot appears and he's very pathetic and weepy and insane and lovable haters dni), knight with the lion (gawain's cousin yvain gets a pet lion, fights a dragon, gets married, gets divorced, goes mad, recovers, gets married again...), erec and enide (worst husband in the universe), and the story of the grail (perceval and gawain adventures). a version of these stories were adapted into le morte d'arthur and the vulgate (except for yvain's lion which is a bummer!). i recommend the nigel bryant translation of perceval and william kibler translations for the rest. when you reach the end of the story of the grail and it cuts mid-sentence...well, sadly we don't know what happened to poor chrétien that kept him from completing his story. but there are four continuations written by other people, plus the german parzival is great as well (and has one of my favorite of gawain's wives, the haughty maiden of logres, orgeluse).

the mabinogion: some of the same stories as chrétien but of welsh origin plus extras. haters will try to pit two bad bitches against each other, but these texts go hand in hand. i like the whimsical vibes of this version and the magical powers given to the characters, such as kay's ability to grow to the size of a tree and set things on fire with his hands or bedwyr's ability to strike faster than all other knights despite having only one hand. it also gives owain (welsh version of yvain) an army of ravens that kill people in addition to his lion, arthur has an invisibility mantle (also referenced in the welsh triads), and the whole gang fights the demon boar twrch trwyth to steal the golden comb off his head. good stuff. i recommend the translation by lady charlotte guest.

the wedding of sir gawain and dame ragnelle: obviously this has to be included. i'm biased but at the same time, it is supposed that sir thomas malory actually wrote this poem! which i think is pretty neat. additionally, 99% of retellings include ragnelle as gawain's wife. in fact, excluding the ones in which he doesn't have a partner at all, i can only think of one in which he marries someone else. dame ragnelle is the people's darling, all of us arthurian authors agreed that in spite of our differing opinions about everything else in the stories, she is the wife of all time. and we're right. a thing of beauty. this text does not have a translation, it's just in middle english, which can be challenging to read. this version edited by thomas hahn has footnotes to help or otherwise i recommend the version retold by selina hastings and illustrated by juan wijngaard, it's gorgeous, and includes all the fun supporting cast like kay and guinevere.

this was a long list with probably more explanation than necessary but it can be difficult to narrow down a single place to begin with arthuriana as each story builds on the literary tradition that came before. everyone is sharing and influencing one another so stories and motifs are repeated, each author writes for their time, slightly altering the technology and culture to reflect their own lived experience, so the narrative evolved as the centuries passed into what we have today. thanks for this ask and hope you enjoy reading!

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Spoilers for episode 89 of Hello from the Hallowoods!!!

(Its just art, but it has some subtle references and one less subtle scene rendition)

MORE DOODS!!!! I’m working on my designs for my favorite Fools :D

I am REALLY obsessed with Moth and Olivier, If you can’t tell. Also I’m happy nimbus is back :D even if everyone else in the Maidstone crew is Suffering!!