For every new Secret Knots comic, I make a Patreon post with sources, references and bits of world building. This is the dossier for the comic The Real Capello. Inspiration I don’t know why I ended up in the Wikipedia
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Author: Juan
New comic: The Real Capello
It’s always the automata. This comic, as some patrons may have seen, has this companion comic about its direct inspiration, which is the Shakespeare authorship controversy. It’s all a sort of parody of the conspiracy, and in the end I took
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Side non-fiction: the Delia Bacon search
Part 2 of this comic digression, which came out of the notes I took looking for inspiration for the main comic. (Here is part 1) For my part, I enjoyed drawing some non-fiction, and I’d probably like to share other
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The Real Capello – comic in progress – pt.2
A bit of progress on The Real Capello. First part is here. As we’ll eventually cover in the side notes comic (update coming soon!), Dr. Horace Buckhurst is based on Dr. Orville Ward Owen, who built an actual “cipher machine”
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Side non-fiction comics: Scenes from the Shakespeare controversy.
With the comic in progress, “The Real Capello”, I’m using the excuse of revisiting the history of the author of the fictional play “The Duke in the Shadows” to comment on / parody some conspiracy theories around the figure of
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