Today, some ten years after Geir, Daniel and I first discussed the concept of having their characters and mine crossing over, Alcydia ends. If you haven't read it yet, why not go to the beginning of the story, sit back, relax and enjoy the devilish laughter rending the night over Iceland? Countess Alcydia orders you to!
Alcydia is now shown on the Rogues of Clwyd-Rhan front page as a tooncast, below the regular comic. I had my doubts about doing this, because the only available spot for such things is below the fold on the front page, but after experimenting with tooncasting The Bare-Pit in that spot, I found out that people did notice and read comics posted there. So I'm giving it a shot.
I've been hopeless at giving Alcydia and Chronicles of the Witch Queen in general the promotion they deserve, and I hope that this will in some way make up for it.
Update (August 27): There was an outage on Webcomicsnation, slowing down the loading of my front page, so I took the tooncast out again.
The phrase "The baron [...] has a regrettable habit of stepping in my piano", used by Countess Alcydia in the comic named after her attracted some comment on the RoCR forum. No, I don't know where it comes from either; presumably it's a Norwegianism. It's a wonderful expression nonetheless, one of those that need no further explanation, and one that the English language really needs. I would like to take the time to urge you all to use it in conversation at the earliest opportunity.
The correct chronological running order for the Chronicles of the Witch Queen stories is as follows:
Webcomicsnation doesn't offer any means of changing the order in which stories are shown on the front page - they're shown in the order their database entries were added to the site. This may change in the future, I hope. I like being able to move blocks around like I can do in WillowCMS.
There's a new page of the remastered Guðrún up, and with this one, the story begins in earnest. A hapless traveler trudges through the snow... what danger lurks in the frozen forest?
Page 2 of Alcydia is up.
Just to remind you that there's an update for the remastered Guðrún today. Page two of the series introduction.
Alcydia by Daniel Østvold and Geir Strøm has started on the Chronicles of the Witch Queen website. It will run in full-page installments on Tuesdays and Thursdays, until finished. Alcydia is intended to be read parallel with Guðrún, which relaunched yesterday. In both stories, Duchess Guðrún of Dungill Fens is kidnapped during a stay in Iceland, and it's up to Tamlin's gang and the Baron von Fieffelfalsfaffel to find and rescue her.
Many thanks to Adam Cuerden for his editorial input, especially in the second half of the story.
The first, introductory, page of the remastered edition of Guðrún is now up over on the Chronicles of the Witch Queen website. The whole 64-page story will run there in three full-page installments a week, on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. When it's done, I'll replace the installments that are on the Rogues of Clwyd-Rhan website with 800-pixels-wide half-page installments from the new master files.
Guðrún is the story of Duchess Guðrún's kidnapping in Iceland. Tamlin's gang join up with the infamous Baron von Fieffelfalsfaffel to find out what exactly has happened and rescue the Duchess. I wrote and drew this story between 1998 and 2000 and still like it a lot. Considering how I usually hate my old work, that's saying something.
I had originally intended to wait until all the other Chronicles of the Witch Queen comics were done, but what with the delays and the slow schedule the next two stories will eventually be serialised at (real soon now, my pretties), that would take forever. So I made the changes today: Courtly Manners and Courtly Manners 2: The Unicorn Race are now free for everyone to read. These were the last of my comics that were behind a subscription wall, so I can now write off the subscription model as something that, on the whole, hasn't worked for me.
Now all I need to do is restore the epic poetry they used to come with...
Reinder Dijkhuis is a translator and cartoonist living in Hoogezand, the Netherlands. He is married, with two stepkids, a dog and cat, and a bevvy of sporadic co-bloggers.
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