HAPPY MARDI GRAS, SEAMEN! 🥳 Have you celebrated the Carnival this year? We hope you did and enjoyed a fest or a party full of colour and costumes! Personally, as good nerds, we really enjoy costumes since we were little and particularly cosplay now as ‘adults’, so we’re dying to go to another Con and make new costumes. But for now let our boys dress up to enjoy their own party assisting one of the most iconic carnivals in the world: New Orleans’ Mardi Gras!
Though Mardi Gras, ‘Fat Tuesday’ in French, refers only to this day; the Mardi Gras season actually begins after Epiphany and culminates on the day before Ash Wednesday. This period known as Carnival is a ranging party result of the Catholic Church’s discouragement of sex and meat during Lent. It arrived in North America on 3rd March 1699, when French explorers camped near the future site of New Orleans and knowing it was ‘Fat Tuesday’ back in France, named the spot Point du Mardi Gras. A few years later, French soldiers and settlers feasted and wore masks as part of Carnival festivities in the newly founded city. If you wanna know more about this scenic fest, we invite you to search for it and learn about its rich and unique cultural mix!
This illustration was the last we made for our 2022 calendar and, as used to happily happen, the result was much better than expected! It’s also the first of this Universe, one of the gloomiest we have particularly, even if they look all cheerful here; the one we’ve called “Purple Freak-show”, settled in the American circus world of the 1890s and the Voodoo culture of New Orleans. If you wanna know more about them, contortionist Lu Han and knife-thrower Randy; they escape their native circus troupe as a result of being caught in a homosexual relationship, and arrive at this fascinating city, unaware of the mysteries and dangers they’re about to face once they join their new troupe…
Be happy, seamen, and hope you enjoy it! 💙
P.S: ‘Purple Freak-show’ are the cover boys of our 2023 Calendar as well 😊
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