{"id":2030,"date":"2021-01-19T15:33:02","date_gmt":"2021-01-19T23:33:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/plugoarts.com\/blog\/?p=2030"},"modified":"2021-01-19T14:26:44","modified_gmt":"2021-01-19T22:26:44","slug":"edgar-allan-poes-212nd-b-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/plugoarts.com\/blog\/edgar-allan-poes-212nd-b-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Edgar Allan Poe’s 212nd B-Day"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Edgar Poe was born in Boston<\/a>, Massachusetts<\/a> on January 19, 1809, the second child of English<\/a>-born actress Elizabeth Arnold Hopkins Poe<\/a> and actor David Poe Jr.<\/a> He had an elder brother named William Henry Leonard Poe<\/a> and a younger sister named Rosalie Poe. Their grandfather, David Poe Sr., emigrated from County Cavan<\/a>, Ireland around 1750. Edgar may have been named after a character in William Shakespeare<\/a>‘s King Lear<\/a><\/em>, which the couple were performing in 1809. His father abandoned the family in 1810, and his mother died a year later from consumption (pulmonary tuberculosis<\/a>). Poe was then taken into the home of John Allan, a successful merchant in Richmond, Virginia<\/a> who dealt in a variety of goods, including cloth, wheat, tombstones, tobacco, and slaves. The Allans served as a foster family and gave him the name “Edgar Allan Poe”, though they never formally adopted him.<\/p>wikipedia.org<\/a><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

I came across Poe’s writings pretty young, before he was covered in high-school English. By the time we did, I was bouncing between Clark’s 2001: A Space Odyssey<\/em> some random adventures of Conan the Barbarian. A tortured soul who created some iconic stories, images and characters. Take, for instance, The Raven<\/em>, and its titular character. Poe wasn’t the first to cast that particular corvid in such a light, it has long been associated with death, and spy-craft. Still, Poe’s harbinger could also be one of Odin’s pair, Huginn and Muninn. Or consider the close relation ravens have to the mythical Tengu<\/em> and the origins of Ninjitsu<\/em>, as I explored in the following comic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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…and I’ll just skip mentioning their use in that “Dark Wings, Dark Words” show we all were once enamored with.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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On Edgar Allan Poe, his birthday, The Raven, ravens and a short silent comic. #EdgarAllanPoe #The Raven #comic<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2032,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Edgar Allan Poe is 212 years old today, The Raven was published 176 years ago and this comic, which also has a raven, is now seven! \nHBD to all three. #EdgarAllanPoe #theRaven #ravens #comic","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[21],"tags":[144,141,4,67,140,145,142,143],"class_list":["post-2030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","tag-edgarallanpoe","tag-black-white-art","tag-blogging","tag-comics","tag-making-comics","tag-mythology","tag-poe","tag-the-raven"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/plugoarts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/TheRattheRaven-preview.jpg?fit=2384%2C2384&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3egHU-wK","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":743,"url":"https:\/\/plugoarts.com\/blog\/the-rat-and-the-raven\/","url_meta":{"origin":2030,"position":0},"title":"The Rat and the Raven","author":"PLUGO","date":"August 4, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"A\u00a0Tiger's Tales\u00a0silent aside.","rel":"","context":"In "blog"","block_context":{"text":"blog","link":"https:\/\/plugoarts.com\/blog\/category\/blog\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"The Rat and the Raven","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/plugoarts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/RatandRaven.jpg?fit=729%2C1200&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/plugoarts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/RatandRaven.jpg?fit=729%2C1200&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/plugoarts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/RatandRaven.jpg?fit=729%2C1200&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/plugoarts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/RatandRaven.jpg?fit=729%2C1200&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":7788,"url":"https:\/\/plugoarts.com\/blog\/wudang-warrior-wednesday-all-day\/","url_meta":{"origin":2030,"position":1},"title":"Wudang\/Warrior Wednesday All Day!","author":"PLUGO","date":"February 13, 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"Wednesday February 15th Live on THE COMICS FU SHOW a special Live Kickstarter Launch followed by afternoon tea with Wudang Master David Wei. 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