So this week’s comic has really thrown me into the surreal. It plays on an old folktale about Baba Yaga – the witch who lives in a house on chicken legs and eats small children unless you trade their lives for a blue rose. It’s a bizarre Russian fairy tale that I have loved since I was young enough to still believe in such things. But there was always several questions I never got answered… why did the house have chicken legs? And where did they come from? So I sent Glen to find out…. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
And the results are in! They come from a giant chicken on wheels. Makes sense. Now what happens after this little show down? I have no idea. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Although this comic wasn’t inspired by music I am however going to add some anyway because I now have two songs on my roster about Baba Yaga – this delightful heavy metal cover<\/a> sent to me on Twitter last night and of course this steamcrunk favorite<\/a>. So now you get to see the mixing of three medias – old fashioned story telling, comics, and music. Got to love it! And also love these comics. They are getting seriously complicated to draw… and I almost feel like I am wasting my new illustrating skills on something so frivolous but nah. Glen’s fucking amazing and that’s all there is to that. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Do you have another Baba Yaga song or inspiration? Feel free to tell me about it in the comments! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" …it turns out Baba Yaga has them holding up her house. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":146,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,12],"tags":[77,162,163,164,165,285,374],"class_list":["post-145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-literary-inspiration","category-lyrical-inspiration","tag-baba-yaga","tag-chicken-legged-house","tag-chicken-legs","tag-chicken-on-wheels","tag-chicken-wheelchair","tag-folklore","tag-house-on-chicken-legs","has-featured-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theophanesavery.com\/glenthecaterpillar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theophanesavery.com\/glenthecaterpillar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theophanesavery.com\/glenthecaterpillar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theophanesavery.com\/glenthecaterpillar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theophanesavery.com\/glenthecaterpillar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theophanesavery.com\/glenthecaterpillar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theophanesavery.com\/glenthecaterpillar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theophanesavery.com\/glenthecaterpillar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theophanesavery.com\/glenthecaterpillar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theophanesavery.com\/glenthecaterpillar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}