The Saint of the Desert is a weekly serialized comic by Jason Novak and an on-going experiment in collective myth-making.
The Saint character was originally created by Giorgos Terzakis for my Weird News Project, but many subscribers of PsyPol have contributed to his image since (see, for example, these apocryphal tales about the Saint from Jeremy Smith). For this week installment, Jason used my notes about a death in the family as inspiration.
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I wish I were creative, but since I'm not, I like to try to inspire those who are. For some reason, this cartoon reminded me of an article in Scientific American about a group of embalming experts who help keep Lenin look the same as the day he died. I think Putin hired them to work on him, but the project is a big one, so it seems they started early while he's still alive! It explains his appearance, and maybe his psyche...too much embalming fluid!
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/lenin-s-body-improves-with-age1/