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Fri, Jul 27, 2007

History Comics

Posted at 10:47 pm MDT to Media

Two web comics with historical settings, both well researched.

The first one, SPQR Blues is set in Herculaneum shortly before Vesuvius blew up (People keep keep asking "Is it true what they say about girls from Pompei?") and has very accurate art. Some of the characters are inspire dby people mentioned in legal documents that survived the eruption. Probably not suitable for really young kids, though it's a lot more reticent about sex and death than the Romans themselves would have been.

It's not often you encounter a comic with dialog in Etruscan (or maybe it was Samnian).

The second comic, Get Medieval involves human-looking space aliens who get stuck in France during the time of the Black Prince and is much lighter. Lots of culture shock. (Also malevolent waterfowl.) It has a cute, cartoony, art style.

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