Tuesday, February 08, 2005
Dan Becker has done a couple of funny comic strips featuring the vikings Hagbard and Hrothgar. What makes them stand out is that the illustrations are photos of 28mm wargaming miniatures with dialog balloons added in with a photo editor.
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Thanks for the link guys. I hope to have more time and more figures to do more comics in the future.
And Hagbard and Hrothgar would be angry to hear you call them vikings. They’re evil Goths!
Posted by Dan Becker on 02/10 at 05:08 AM | #