Thoth,
patron of scribes. God of writing, magic, wisdom, and the moon.
Illustration by Léon-Jean-Joseph Dubois, published in ‘Panthéon égyptien, collection des personnages mythologiques de l'ancienne Égypte, d'après les monuments’ by Jean-François Champollion, 1823. via Brooklyn Museum.
Horsehead: A Wider View : Combined image data from the massive, ground-based VISTA telescope and the Hubble Space Telescope was used to create this wide perspective of the interstellar landscape surrounding the famous Horsehead Nebula. Captured at near-infrared wavelengths, the region’s dusty molecular cloud sprawls across the scene that covers an angle about two-thirds the size of the Full Moon on the sky. Left to right the frame spans just over 10 light-years at the Horsehead’s estimated distance of 1,600 light-years. Also known as Barnard 33, the still recognizable Horsehead Nebula stands at the upper right, the near-infrared glow of a dusty pillar topped with newborn stars. Below and left, the bright reflection nebula NGC 2023 is itself the illuminated environs of a hot young star. Obscuring clouds below the base of the Horsehead and on the outskirts of NGC 2023 show the tell-tale far red emission of energetic jets, known as Herbig-Haro objects, also associated with newborn stars. via NASA
“Montu Lord of ‘Uaset’-Thebes” (translation of the hieroglyphs on the top right), falcon-headed, wearing the Solar disk with two uraei and the two feathers, raising His right in blessing. ‘Ipet-Sut’ (“Karnak”), the highly sacred Precinct of the God Amon-Ra at ‘Uaset’-Thebes, detail from the enclosure of King Thutmosi III located in the Court between the Fifth Pylon and the Sixth Pylon
CORONATION OF THE KIN ~ I’m still in awe that I had the opportunity to travel to London + create this! wow! special thank you to Getty Images for making this possible!
so pleased to share this with you all - released 18-8-18.
Science fantasy / space opera warrior (Different Worlds 3, Tom Clark cover, Chaosium, June/July 1979 – when D&D and Bunnies & Burrows got equal billing)
Ancient Egyptian hollow gold bead bearing the names of the 19th Dynasty pharaoh Ramesses II (r. 1279-1213 BCE) and one of his Great Royal Wives, Isetnofret. Now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Blackwatch was formed by Pharohn, the great master teacher behind Dreadlocks. The Gods have summoned Pharohn so that he would form a group to battle future threats from Galactic terrorist. These Galactic terrorist outnumber Dreadlocks by many, so this newly formed group who are brought in from a futuristic time period.
Not knowing what evils await them, they encounter a force that has never been seen by any of them on their solo missions. Their personalities are in constant conflict with one another due to not being together as a group. Queen Nubia and Sheba shares the leadership of the group as they set out on their first mission.
This is the Collected works of the award winning African American/ Native American comic book illustrator, graphic designer, and jane of all trades; Afua Richardson. This 44 page Artzine is the 1st volume of her collected works.
Winner of the 2014 Will Eisner Award for Best Scholarly/Academic Work.
“Bringing together contributors from a wide-range of critical perspectives, Black Comics: Politics of Race and Representation is an analytic history of the diverse contributions of Black artists to the medium of comics.
Covering comic books, superhero comics, graphic novels and cartoon strips from the early 20th century to the present, the book explores the ways in which Black comic artists have grappled with such themes as the Black experience, gender identity, politics and social media.”
