Bleary eyes from late night research. This time, basic terms of Shinto. Interesting material, I guess, but a lot to take in at once. But I need this information to understand the basic underlying cosmology of Japanese mythology. Without this the most fundamental concepts of the plot are uninformed and probably completely wrong. There is so ( Read more... )

Here is some astonishingly beautiful art by the Taiwanese Mucha, Mr. James Jean. It is (probably) a title page from his painted comics story "A Frog's Eye View", to be featured this October in One Thousand and One Nights of Snowfall, the Fables original graphic novel. The story will tell Flycatcher's background and how his wife and children were ( Read more... )

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