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Alcydia ends today

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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" starts on Webcomicsnation

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Alcydia page 1 - click!


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 as a companion piece to Guðrún, which relaunched yesterday. Or vice versa. 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. The events as told are not exactly the same though: think of it as a crossover told from the points of view of both casts involved, with both stories being incorrect recollections of what actually happened.

Many thanks to Adam Cuerden for his editorial input, especially in the second half of the story.

Christmas at Blocksberg - seasonal comic

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First page of Christmas at Blocksberg. Click to see full-size
Christmas time is upon us, so over at Chronicles of the Witch Queen, we're running a seasonal story. In the dark days of December, witches ride out on a Wild Hunt! But then they like to follow that up with a cozy evening around the Christmas tree unwrapping presents. One year, though, Santa goes missing. Will Queen Elspeth find a replacement in time? And just what is Countess Alcydia up to? Read all about it in Christmas at Blocksberg! Art by Daniel Østvold; writing by Geir Strøm.

If you have a website you want to liven up with a seasonal comic, you can use our Tooncast: cut and paste <script language="javascript" src="http://www.webcomicsnation.com/tooncast.php?series=blocksberg"></script>into your website.

The Eye of the Underworld

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The Eye of the Underworld has started. This, the second story in the Chronicles of the Witch Queen series, has been published online elsewhere, but for this rerun it has been remastered.

The Eye of the Underworld was conceived in a meeting between myself and writer Geir Strøm in Ranheim, Norway in 1996. Specifically, it was conceived in a meeting I would later remember nothing of. In Eye, the alchemist Ioannes is sent on a mission to the Arab subcontinent to retrieve a magical artefact from the possession of the Caliph. But for all his ability as a necromancer and maker of homunculi, Ioannes is no James Bond. And when a young, sensibly-dressed thief starts interfering with his work, he's in trouble.

The Eye of the Underworld will update on weekdays, running for one month.

Well, this is very nice

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I like the ability to add RSS feeds and have their titles show up in the sidebar. I don't like how my feeds show up on the links pages themselves - it may be technically correct to render HTML tags in a feed literally (I don't know, and don't really care to), but Bloglines doesn't do it that way, and all those tags make the text illegible.
But having my feeds on the front page is neat. I've added my own blog and webcomics sites. Rogues of Clwyd-Rhan, The Lives of X!Gloop, Waffle and Chronicles of the Witch Queen are now linked to their latest updates from the front page, making this blog a one-stop Reinder Dijkhuis shop:p Take that, Livejournal! Of course, Livejournal has the sheer size of its community in its favour - this is more important in the long run than technological superiority.

Chronicles of the Witch Queen hasn't been mentioned on this journal yet, because the website hadn't been launched when I last posted. It's a webcomic I'm sharing with two Norwegian creators, Geir Strøm and Daniel Østvold. You can tell they're Norwegian from the øs. Uhm, I've been working with them for a decade now, and the idea behind the site is to republish work spanning that entire period. The current story being serialised is The Double, written by Geir and drawn by Daniel in 1995/1996, and edited and lettered by me. The next storyline will be a collaboration between Geir and myself from 1997. If you like original fantasy comics, give the site a look.
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