507 years ago TODAY: Spaniards land in Mexica controlled territory. They are met by Totonac representatives.
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A massive group with rave styled illuminated bicycles, and blaring club music, just rode past my house.
#KeepPortlandWeird
507 years ago TODAY & yesterday: Mexica rulers are meeting to determine what to do about strange visitors from another world who've arrived at the coast.
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507 years ago TODAY: The defeated Maya provide Spaniards with tribute, including twenty girls. Among them is the person that will become famously known as Malinche.
Page 35 of our series:
Alaska 👀
Ten years ago this month: timetunnel.bigredhair.com/yukon/index....
507 years ago: The Battle of Cintla takes place on “Lady Day” (Annunciation of the Virgin Mary is March 25). It includes the the first example of cavalry combat in the Americas.
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Insane stuff. Great visuals and super cool setting.
I drew a poster for Comic Con Oakland @comicconoakland.com, colored by the mighty @dillonsnook.bsky.social!
And I can’t wait for this con. It’s been forever since I attended a show in Oakland.
507 years ago TODAY: The Spanish invasion begins.
Page 11 from our FREE webcomic AZTEC EMPIRE:
507 years ago TODAY:
The Tabasco Maya prepare for an invasion by literal beings from another world.
Page 8 from our #webcomic
#InternationalWomensDay
Indigenous women seen in our AZTEC EMPIRE webcomic. Read it for FREE at BigRedHair.com
#ECCC
My unsolicited endorsement of the day: this thing is gorgeous, well researched, and so much fun to read.
I teach university-level Mexican History.
Our series begins on March 5, 507 years ago.
Spaniards have arrived a couple weeks previous, and Mexica messengers are delivering daily reports to Motechuzoma.
Read this epic for FREE on our website. Here's the first page:
Méliès’ automaton appeared four years after the unveiling of the robot known as Boilerplate, at the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair.
“I've seen the errors of my ways. I'd just like to say to all students everywhere that you may think the school is yours for a while, but it's always run by the principal and her administration.”
Not so fun fact that Lindbergh had Munchausen Syndrome and killed his own child.
Eventually one can use whatever the particular AI responds to, such as “Alexis” or whatever. ;P
My head cannon is “Majel.”
It’s a Desilu sweep:
Star Trek
Mission: Impossible
Mannix
Untouchables
But it’s so funny seeing snuff videos of fishermen!
Legit take
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Riff Randell is their number one fan.
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Episode 11 is under way: script and layouts for 8 pages, inks for 6 pages, and colors for 2 pages. They're posted on my Patreon.com/guinan. For as little as $1 per month you can see the process in creating this epic. Please contribute to help fuel this project, thanks!
Five men in various sci-fi outfits with belts and gear. One man has a mushroom shaped headgear with single-slit goggles, and a rifle.
Random guys from my sketchbook. Watercolor, ink, brush pen
It’s outside your usual style.
It’s great!
Nope, just that that’s an awesome image.🏆
By who?
Art source?
What’s worse, the U.S. extrajudicial executions of its citizens, incarceration of innocent juveniles in detention centers, dismantling democracy and our relationship with this planet, or the so much more examples to choose from.
You tell me.