The Thirteenth Hour Podcast #559: Thirteenth Hour Sequel Update 8 - Trying a Fast Shooting Archery Technique Inspired by Thorgal

About this episode

Joshua Blum discusses his experience with the comic Thorgal and its influence on his archery technique.

This week, I'm playing around with something I saw in a Franco-Belgian comic book from the late 70s/80s called T horgal , written by Jean Van Hamme and illustrated by Grzegorz Rosiński, about the child of a race of people from elsewhere in the universe who crash land on Earth. The child (Thorgal) is raised by Vikings and grows up to be a very skilled archer. I just discovered this comic on a trip to visit my brother across the pond. We ended up taking the Chunnel from London to Paris, and there is this one section of the city where there are a whole bunch of comic book stores. We went into one that had mainly French comics. It was absolutely amazing in terms of art, though I only know a few words of French so could not really read anything. But I found a few volumes in English, and a Thorgal comic was one of them. I was attracted to the title of this volume ( The Archers ), and even though it was sealed (as is often the case with most comic book shops), decided I'd buy it on impulse. It was basically something I would have totally done as a kid - bought a book because the cover looked cool and opened it up to find I couldn't understand what I'd just bought since I'd purchased the…

People in this episode

Host: Joshua Blum

Topics covered

• archery
• comic books
• Franco-Belgian comics
• Thorgal
• Vikings
• art

Keywords

• Thorgal
• archery technique
• comic books
• Franco-Belgian
• Vikings
• Jean Van Hamme
• Grzegorz Rosiński

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Thorgal, The Archers

Places: London, Paris, Chunnel

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