274 getting close to the solstice

Been working on another comic. When I got the tablet, I wasn't sure where it was going. I'm still not. So, I'm just sort of following impulse for now. 


The first things I started sketching were about a character I created a while ago, but then I went off on a tangent and did the "Religion" comic.

(http://radebooks.blogspot.com/2020/12/honest-history-of-religion.html)

Then, I started thinking about one religion, specifically, and how it came to acquire it's various symbols. That led to wanting to do a comic about the fish, and Easter, and Christmas trees and all that.

So I set off to explain the fish. It's a pretty complicated idea, involving the precession of the equinoxes, and the notion that earth's seasons slowly move as we wobble our way around the sun. Getting into it has taken a whole comic of its own. 

So that's what I've been struggling with. And I hope I'm getting it right. But the cool thing is, if I do, I'm not sure it's ever been explained in a comic. So there's that.

The comic is called "How Jesus became a fish."

Read this article about how the climate crisis is warming up parts of Russia to be farmable.

It's weird to think about in this way, but really, humans have been moving north since the end of the last ice age. 

What do you do when there's nobody on the street?

Home is where the *action* is. Yikes.

Kate! Candy with Iggy Pop also. Tomorrow, maybe all the songs she did with REM. It's funny, when they came out, I thought The B52s were years ahead of REM, but in hindsight I wonder if they used to play small shows in Athens together?

My brother, in Colombia, is able to watch the Christmas Cup, one of the lead up races to next year's America's Cup. It's free on YouTube, except in the US, where it's like $150 on some NBC spinoff channel.

Also, the Vendee Globe carries on. Except the guy in first place might not be in first, because of the compensation for the rescue that occurred.

And the last big trimaran dropped out of the Jules Verne, due to rudder damage, so that race is over for now.

California is the new epicenter. 

Likely because we have the most people.

Sadly, despite there being so many, it wasn't hard to pick one.

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