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    Posted: 11-Aug-2007 at 20:51
Okay, I hope I'm doing this in the right place and this doesn't count as spamming.

I am currently in the middle of writing a webcomic that takes place in Precolumbian Mexico, called Lord of Death and Life. The main character is a Mayan farmer who travels to the nearest city in search of someone to interpret his dreams, but winds up in the middle of a political crisis instead. I'm not a historian at all, and I've already come across a few historical inaccuracies in the comic so far, but still I figure someone ought to write a comic that shows off Mesoamerican culture. Nobody else seems to be doing it.

Any comments are welcome! Smile


Edited by jdalton - 11-Aug-2007 at 20:53
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Wow! I like it.  Where did you do your research? Just out of curiosity.  I'll have to go back and read the whole thing when I have more time.
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Cool! Please pm me to talk about incorporating at least a tease of it in our free web historical magazine.
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Originally posted by Dan Carkner

Wow! I like it.  Where did you do your research? Just out of curiosity.  I'll have to go back and read the whole thing when I have more time.

Thanks!

Well, most of it is based on the one Mesoamerican art history course I was able to take back in university. I've got a stack of books here too... let me see... The World of the Ancient Maya by John S. Henderson, The Aztecs, Maya, and Their Predecessors by Muriel Porter Weaver, Reading the Maya Glyphs by Michael D. Coe, Aztec, Mixtec and Zapotec Armies by John M. D. Pohl, Before Cortes: Mesoamerican Costumes from the Codices by Patricia Rieff Anawalt, the Popol Vuh, as well as whatever copies of the codicies I can find and a few other bits and pieces. Also Wikipedia.

This forum is awesome too, though. I've learned a lot just since signing up a week ago. What I really need to do, though, is go to Mexico. I'm sure there's a lot I could learn just by being there that they don't put in books.
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Thanks!
 
I like very much your work. It is amazing the power of cartoons to convey reality, particularly in a topic like the past of the Americas.
 
Keep working. You got some fans of your work now
 
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Jack's comics always make me think of the Aztec Zone in the Crystal Maze...
 
Old, UK, TV...programme...type...thing.
 
Yah... :p
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Geez, El, follow me round much? :-P
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