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So fun fact: I own the original art for the Death's Head one-page story "High Noon Tex". I'm in the middle of moving, and my friends at the local comics-and-collectables shop offered to let me keep anything exceptionally valuable in their storage. Within hours of me dropping it off yesterday, @strangefour sent me a link to this and asked if I had any forensic insights:

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https://youtu.be/RHGM6BtiQSE

It's another "walk through memory lane" day and today, while talking to folks about some ancient* Puerto Rican fandom history that I personally was involved with, I got to mentioning Zahíra: The Chosen Flame by José Trinidad.

A manga-influenced local comic in Puerto Rico, it was a fantasy story about a wandering elf, the Zahíra in question, and the journey she had to make to defend the world from the evil lord who ruled it. More or less, is what I remember--aside from the influences it wore on its heart from series like Slayers and Lodoss War.

It only lasted two issues because the creator couldn't take much more risk on working on it while also balancing his real life job. Something had to give and he chose financial stability. In a place like Puerto Rico, only very few get to balance comics and money well--emphasis on "very few." It was a shame, and to be frank, a tragedy. This IMO had the stylings of becoming a fantasy classic for local comics.

Maybe someday I will get my own copies out of storage and scan them to share. In the meantime, I recommend reading the first comic that someone graciously posted on Reddit. Being published in Puerto Rico, it's obviously in Spanish, so bear that in mind:

1/2: https://old.reddit.com/r/BORICUA/comments/1do8a62/puerto_rican_manga_collection_zahira_the_chosen/

2/2: https://new.reddit.com/r/BORICUA/comments/1do8i90/puerto_rican_manga_collection_zahira_the_chosen/

InkStain Comics, the publisher: https://web.archive.org/web/20060114222531/http://inkstaincomics.com/ along with an interview (in Spanish): https://web.archive.org/web/20041209010836/http://www.inkstaincomics.com/zahira/artistainfo/entrevista/dic04/index.htm

Trinidad's devianart: https://www.deviantart.com/dakuna/gallery/all

*2000s, but that's ancient both by the standards of me and by people 20 yrs younger than me.

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Thinking about Death's Head lately with the new toy in my hands and I think the biggest crime of Death's Head II was that, under the "Marvel UK" banner, they took an extremely British character and murdered him to bring in a bog-standard Edgy 90s replacement. Because Death's Head was very much dry British humour mixed with an also very British kind of offbeat space sci-fi.

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Wearing my “Not Approved By The Comics Code” tshirt for today’s class discussion of Wimmen’s Comix, featuring the work of Trina Robbins & Roberta Gregory, and Mary Wings’ Come Out Comix. Discussing #counterpublics & the creation, release, & content of the first outspoken & personal lesbian/queer-penned comics #UndergroundComix #comics #ComicsHistory #QueerHistory

Shirt by Diego Gomez https://instagram.com/designnurd?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==

Original art for Peanuts by Charles M. Schulz was originally published on 12/9/1981. What beautiful scribbling! I love Sally's careful consideration in panel two and her arm motion in the third panel.

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Looking at Charles Schulz's single-panel Peanuts dailies for an exhibition project. This one was originally published on December 30, 1989. He was an absolute master of the space he was allotted.

This one reminds me of a story he told about drawing as a kid and figuring out how to show the thickness of the ice with the hole ... a useful technical detail for a kid from Minnesota who likes to draw funny pictures.

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