At Nethermost Park
Work in progress from the upcoming issue of Folly Ground. See also previous posts ‘Trouble in Dreams’, ‘Lame Science is back!’ and' ‘Stranger than fiction’ (all below) for a brief taster of the issue.
Phantom voltage
A sequel to the last post.
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Local news article from the ‘Folly Daily News’
Saturday, 16 October 198—
Phantom Voltage
Intermittent Electricity recently faced a claim that a shadowy black figure was responsible for Edgar Thrice-Spookʼs 1,236.15 FDr electricity bill. The spectral figure had allegedly turned on the lights and equipment for hours at a time. It also used Mr Thrice-Spookʼs top-of-the-line paper shredder to shred telephone directories, private correspondence and bills at his house in District Y.
The case is being investigated by the renowned Third Eye Phumblers Detective Agency on behalf of Intermittent Electricity.
Blackmail and extortion
Local news article from the ‘Folly Times’
Thursday, 30 September 198—
Snail terrorises garden for years
A family has taken Dinky, its pet snail, to court accusing it of leaving threatening voicemails and engaging in acts of environmental terrorism in their garden.
Dinky, which was acquired by the Diagram family two years ago, was initially kept in an exclusive and carefully constructed area within their perfectly diagrammatic garden. However, not content in its flawlessly delineated patch, Dinky hatched grandiose ideas to extend its dominion over the entire garden. It began waging a systematic campaign of terror not only on the Diagrams but also on the rest of the plant and animal life of the garden. Blackmail, intimidation and extortion were used in order to subdue and oppress the various resident worms, caterpillars, and mice as well as passing guests such as robins, bees, butterflies and grasshoppers. Extensive modifications of the statistical graphics, maps and technical illustrations within the garden as well as sabotage of equipment, such as saturating the garden shears with foul-smelling mucus, were undertaken in order to confuse the Diagram family, and render the garden inaccessible to them. Finally, Dinky resorted to leaving threatening messages on the Diagrams’ voicemail. ‘We got particularly scared when Dinky began threatening us with the destruction of our arbor trellis if we didn’t get out of the house’, said Mr. Herbert Diagram.
The local court is currently investigating the case. If charged, Dinky faces 10 counts of psychological warfare against nature and 17 counts of garden terrorism.
Trouble in dreams
Complicated matters of love and filial separation are brewing in far-away constellations. Yet another page of the currently in-progress second issue of Folly Ground, whose theme revolves around a cult scifi tv series (aka ‘Apparent Magnitude’) based on the myth of Pollux and Castor and a lucid dream of sorts that Luci has. The panels here relate to the two posts from 13 and 18 April this year that can be seen below. Progress is slow on this issue, but more will be forthcoming on this blog. Constructive comments always welcome.
Lame Science is back!
Slow progress on the second issue of Folly Ground continues. This is the inside back cover featuring yet another advert for Lame Science, the No. 1 unscientific magazine in Folly Ground. It was really good fun to design. I wish the rest of the artwork, drawings, etc. were as easy as that to put together. By the way, the advert gives a few clues as to the theme of the forthcoming issue.
Website cover page
The image below is (was) a design for a new cover page for the website. Sadly, given the responsive template I am using, I was not able to make it work well for all the different screen formats. So here it is on the blog instead. Regarding the cover page, I have had to resort to a much simpler design instead. If you haven’t seen it, just click on ‘Home’ on the menu above.
Copyright © 2021 Helena Lekka
Stranger than fiction
More artwork from the forthcoming ‘Folly Ground’ issue. In these pages, Luci has an unexpected encounter in an unexpected place. But is it real?
Apparent Magnitude redux
Artwork page from the still in-progress second issue of ‘Folly Ground’.
Last summer, I had written at some length about ‘Apparent Magnitude’, Folly Ground’s cult sci-fi tv show whose plot is based on the myth of Pollux and Castor. The idea was still in its inception at the time, but as work has progressed on this soon-to-come issue, the show has become a key element of the story. You can see the original post along with some initial artwork and rough drawings of Pollux and Castor here.
