Drones - Page 99 of the cartoon about Phill from GCHQ - a free comic that I have been working on since September 2016.
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Introduction to this weeks page
I always liked making drawings with white ink on black paper. Problem is that the white has a hard time being completely opaque and that black paper is a dodgy, untrustworthy thing. The way to do it right is to make it as a woodcut or a screen print. That way you can still print black on white while the expression is the opposite. When you make digital drawings black is black and white is white, and contrary to making graphical print you can just go ahead and draw and see the result right away. This page that is going on at night two days before the new year 2017, so I decided to use the white on black technique.
The NSA hacker team led by the twins, Nut and Geb, has been present in the comics since early on. They are among the most dangerous antagonists of Phill and his friends and after they have teamed up with ex-cia analyst Latisha Babin their full potential is unleashed. Nut is always doing the talking while Geb is introvert, but with a strange intuition for finding people. Already on their first appearance Geb had a hunch that his brother (rightfully) took very serious. I have always envisioned them as two rural boys from the Midwest, who early on delved into the binary magic and who was head-hunted by the NSA already in high school. Their names are Nathaniel and Gabriel Johnston, nicknamed Nut and Geb by their church going parents unaware that those two names also are the names of two heathen Gods (and twins) from the old Egypt.
Nut is heaven and Geb is the earth, as is hinted at in the text. Below you can see a representation of the Heavenly Nut and the earthly Geb.
Happy reading.
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Translations
Thanks to some very dedicated and helpful people the comic about Phill from GCHQ can also be read in other languages. New pages are published on their respective Hive pages. Please follow them and support their work!
- @vcelier has made the French translation
- @shortcut has made the German translation
The comic is, like all my digital artworks, made exclusively with open source software:
