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Another thing from Patreon, this is probably older than most of the people seeing it. I went through a period of doing a ton of comics using lyrics from songs I liked, and this was one of the earlier ones, illustrating the Genesis song 11th Earl of Mar. This was done pre-art school, so my figure drawing leaves a bit to be desired, but I still think this particular strip has some interesting layouts and graphics. This was colored with Dr. Martin's Dyes, which can give a really bright color but are not color-fast and will fade if left in light. These still look as bright as when I did them because the art has been kept in storage all this time.
Category Artwork (Traditional) / Comics
Species Human
Size 1043 x 1275px
File Size 476.8 kB
Had to check my album sleeve to be sure, (yes, vinyl, why?) wondering if I've been hearing it wrong for the last forty years but the lyric is "that glorious timing that everyone feared."
Mike Rutherford said it refers to John Erskine, often numbered as the 23rd Earl of Mar, but in some histories counted as the 11th Earl. He fomented rebellion against the crown, seeking independence for Scotland in the Jacobite Rising of 1715. The "glorious timing that everyone feared" was the English Jacobites hoping for support from their Scottish allies, but Erskine was an incompetent general and help never arrived. His cause lost, Mar fled to Paris, where he spent the rest of his life in exile. Oddly enough, though Parliament had issued a writ of attainder for treason against, him, King George I gave him a living stipend of £3,500 a year. It's good to be the king.
Mar died sixteen years after he fled England, in Aachen, France at the age of 57.
I love English history. It is so delightfully messy. I also love Prog Rock for attempting to make art out of it.
BTW, copyright notice on my album says 1976, so I think that would be a fairly solid guess for when it was released. That was the same year Trick of the Tail was released. It was the "new" lineup, without Peter Gabriel, and with Phil Collins on lead vocals, but it was before Steve Hackett left (after Wind and Wuthering), to pursue his solo career.
Mike Rutherford said it refers to John Erskine, often numbered as the 23rd Earl of Mar, but in some histories counted as the 11th Earl. He fomented rebellion against the crown, seeking independence for Scotland in the Jacobite Rising of 1715. The "glorious timing that everyone feared" was the English Jacobites hoping for support from their Scottish allies, but Erskine was an incompetent general and help never arrived. His cause lost, Mar fled to Paris, where he spent the rest of his life in exile. Oddly enough, though Parliament had issued a writ of attainder for treason against, him, King George I gave him a living stipend of £3,500 a year. It's good to be the king.
Mar died sixteen years after he fled England, in Aachen, France at the age of 57.
I love English history. It is so delightfully messy. I also love Prog Rock for attempting to make art out of it.
BTW, copyright notice on my album says 1976, so I think that would be a fairly solid guess for when it was released. That was the same year Trick of the Tail was released. It was the "new" lineup, without Peter Gabriel, and with Phil Collins on lead vocals, but it was before Steve Hackett left (after Wind and Wuthering), to pursue his solo career.
Yep! It took me forever to find out the actual meaning of the song and I was convinced for decades that there was no actual "Eleventh Earl of Mar" because I could find nothing about him in the library. I, too, always pictured the narrator as a daughter, but turns out it had to have been his son, Thomas, who would have been ten years old at the time of the uprising—Odd that it made both of us think of a girl. Phil Collins just has that kind of vocal quality, I guess.
The historical meaning, though, would not have been a very interesting lyrics story. It's confusing enough just reading the history, never mind trying to make sense of it in the compressed format of a comic (or a song).
The historical meaning, though, would not have been a very interesting lyrics story. It's confusing enough just reading the history, never mind trying to make sense of it in the compressed format of a comic (or a song).
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