I do, however, own a wooden statue that looks suspiciously like the statue that comes to life on these Rommelhok pages:

My dad gave it to me when he returned from teaching at the university of Jayapura in the Indonesian half of New Guinea for a few weeks some time in the late 1980′s. Connoisseurs of touristy knock-offs of original ethnic art will recognize the unique patina (shoe polish): unlike authentic dark wood, this statue gets lighter with age.

And this much of the comic is, in fact, autobiographical: my wife hates it.

Since the time I have available to work on the Rommelhok comic is limited I had to leave out the backgrounds. Drawing characters in motion is difficult and time consuming enough, especially if your drawing skills leave something to be desired.

“ww2 fighter plane”

And presto:

Artists working on, say, comic books about the ancient Romans would spend months locked up in libraries and archives collecting documentation that would help them draw whatever it was their script writers had thought up. These days, all you have to do is open your laptop.

Of course the bows used by the English at Agincourt were of much higher quality than the one that this guy is using. They had rope instead of rattan twines and the tips of their arrows were made of steel, whereas the arrow shown here is entirely made out of wood: strong and sharp enough to pierce a fellow South Sea islander’s chest or a pig, but probably no match for the relatively heavy (for a WW2 airplane at least) armor of the depicted Bell P-39 Airacobra fighter plane.

I suggest we simply assume our friend, who my notes say goes by the name of Appieroessa by the way (bonus points if you can guess where that name comes from!), got really, really lucky.

http://www.bouletcorp.com/blog/2012/04/14/

It’s not yet translated into English, unfortunately.

Since I took French in high school I managed to read it in the original (with the help of Google Translate) from which I learned that a zero G flight is where they take an airplane, fly it up really high and then send it in a nose dive to the ground. During that nose dive the people inside the plane experience weightlessness, which is useful for space astronauts undergoing training, scientists doing experiments and, in the case of Boulet, comic book authors goofing off. During a single zero G flight they do this about thirty times and every time they do the nose dive the pilots of the aircraft cover up the cockpit windows to prevent themselves from going into a panic when they see the earth approaching them at great speed.