FAQ Page

Special Site Features:

The next update day's page is available on The Webcomic List as a vote incentive. You can read it by clicking on the blue TWC button near the top of the index page.

You can navigate through the comic page by page with the left and right arrow keys. First click the comic page once with the mouse to make that frame active, then hit the back or forward arrow keys to navigate one page back or forward.

If you forgot where you left off months ago, or want Cliff's notes, there are chapter summaries available on the Story Page.

Fair Use:

You may use Crowfeathers comics pages, related art, characters, concepts, etc. for the following pre-approved uses:

fan art
doujinshi (fan comics)
icons
signatures
derivative works
educational, review, or parody works
advertising for Crowfeathers

AS LONG AS you DO NOT claim ownership of the original art, characters, or story, and do not falsely claim association/affiliation with me or Crowfeathers, or make false claims about me or my work which would be damaging to my reputation. i.e. Making a parody is fine as long as you don't falsely lead others to believe that I made the parody. Obviously I don't want credit for something I haven't seen, especially since it might be completely off base from what I would find humorous or agreeable.

If asked, you MUST tell others where the originals came from. Wherever possible, if the work is posted or published somewhere other than this site, you must visibly indicate one or more of the following on or near the derivative work: the name of the original comic (Crowfeathers), the creator's name (SageBrush), and the URL of the comic site (http://www.crowfeathers.net). You must make it clear that you drew it/made the derivative work, but the original character(s) concept(s) is/are mine.

If you SELL Crowfeathers fan art or derivative works to a third party, (I doubt this will come up much for a few years, at least, but just in case) the work MUST somehow indicate all three items (based on the comic Crowfeathers, by SageBrush, http://www.crowfeathers.net), AND it must be made obvious that it is fan art.

All the above restrictions are common courtesy for derivative works, and should be followed for any fan work, except in cases where the creator has strictly forbidden any derivative works.

Art FAQ:

Q: What program are you using/how do you do this stuff???

A: The pages are hand drawn with pencil and inked with Faber Castel brush pens and whatever drafting pens I have at the moment. Then I scan them into photoshop. I use a parchment texture that I scanned in from a piece of paper to replicate watercolor... though in the early pages I was actually using watercolor toning.

Q: What fonts do you use?

A: Frank the Architect for the main text, Markerman for title pages, Radioactive Granny for the website navigation stuff and comic title. I also like Helldorado. I use a few others here and there. For screams and FX I prefer to just write them with a Sharpie.

Music Info:

> Alouette is a French children's song of unknown origin (though it was around prior to the Lewis and Clark expedition). The verses refer to plucking a lark before cooking it.

> The written lyrics to The Twelve Days of Christmas first appeared in Mirth without Mischief, a children's song book, in the early 1780s in England. The tune is much older and is purported to have originated in France. The twelve days of Christmas are the twelve days between Christmas and Epiphany (January 6th), which is when the three wise men supposedly arrived on the scene.

> All Through the Night is a traditional Welsh folk song whose lyrics were first printed in 1784. The rather different English lyrics were written by Harold Boulton, but I changed them around a bit. Technically his version was written in 1884, but fudging a few years won't kill anyone.

> Flee As a Bird. (1857) (diff ed) w., Mrs. Mary S. B. Dana. m., arr. by George Frederick Root. Boston: Oliver Ditson & Co., cop. 1857.

Mythological/Supernatural Info:

> There are stories of giant birds that live in rural, often mountainous areas in the US, that are large enough to carry off children and livestock. Some of these stories are recent, though the thunderbird myth goes back for centuries. Some Native Americans claim the birds lay round eggs of stone (likely geodes) in enormous nests on the mountain ledges. The African Crested Eagle is a known species of bird which routinely consumes small primates and may be guilty of preying on human children. Whether or not there truly exists an American species capable of carrying larger prey (over ten pounds) is debated. Some Natives claim "thunderbirds" nest mainly in mountainous regions in South and Central America, but come up as far as Alaska. Bird experts believe the sightings are actually known species of condores, eagles, or vultures, and the extreme sizes claimed are based on human inability to judge dimensions and distances in the sky. This was shown by launching a 14" bird kite over a lake and asking onlookers to judge how large it was. Most wildly overestimated it, with some guessing as much as 100"; the closest estimate given was 27".

> The healing cocoon is a literal interpretation of a concept put forward by "world renowned psychic" Sylvia Brown -- those that committed suicide, were mentally ill before death, or who died horribly tragic deaths may need to go through a process called "cocooning," in which the spirit is enshrouded in God's love and left alone for a while until they can become whole again. After this process they can go on normally with their lives on the other side.

Languages

Q: Are the non English/French/Spanish/etc. words real, or did you make them up?
A: Early on I was just making them up, so Harulkojin, Harukulkuun, Jinku, Saija Dakaruum, and chacoste are all made up, though Jinku means various appropriate things in Japanese depending on how it's spelled. Now I have an assortment of dictionaries and glossaries for Hopi, Navajo, and Western Apache, so any words that are not obviously English/French/Spanish/Chinese/German/etc. will probably be from one of those three Native languages.

Religion

Q: Is this some kind of story to promote Christianity? What's all this religious stuff? Aghhh!
A: No. This is a story to make you think about your faith, or lack of faith, differently.

Q: What do you believe in?
A: According to Belief-O-Matic:

1. Neo-Pagan (100%)
2. New Age (98%)
3. Unitarian Universalism (95%)
4. New Thought (93%)
5. Mahayana Buddhism (88%)
6. Taoism (86%)
7. Liberal Quakers (84%)
8. Scientology (76%)
9. Christian Science (Church of Christ, Scientist) (75%)
10. Mainline to Liberal Christian Protestants (73%)

Defining what I believe in is hard, because it changes from day to day. Basically I study a lot of New Age ideas. I read about or listen to the stories of psychics, near death experiencers, past life researchers, psychic healers, remote viewers, quantum physics researchers, etc. I've been reading Native books, such as The Book of the Hopi, which I still need to finish... I'm familiar with the bible but by no means a bible scholar. However, I'm of the opinion that the explanations given by churches as to what many bible passages mean are either totally wrong or very superficial. I listen to Coast to Coast AM, which is a radio show that runs overnight and covers mainly paranormal subject matter. I am not affiliated with any religion, therefore it is not my purpose to recruit anyone into any particular faith. However, I would like to encourage people to look inward more often, and reconsider the true nature of reality. Anyone who believes he has it all figured out, is most likely quite wrong, and should go off and think on humility for a bit.