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Enola Holmes: Mycroft’s Dangerous Game, a New Graphic Novel From Legendary Comics

Legendary Comics has announced Enola Holmes: Mycroft’s Dangerous Game! The graphic novel will be available on August 23, 2022 & is written by Mickey George with artwork by Giorgia Sposito & colors by Enrica Eren Angiolini! Cover by Cat Staggs.

The story will bridge the first film with the upcoming sequel. Picking up where the film left off, the graphic novel will tell the story of Enola, Lord Tewkesbury and a young boy on the streets named Shag, trying to track down Enola’s brother, Mycroft, who has been abducted by a group of anarchists.

“We are so excited to expand Enola’s world and story with an exciting new adventure in our graphic novel from this extremely talented creative team,” said Nikita Kannekanti, Legendary Comics’ Senior Editor. “Nancy has come up with a really fun story with some charming new characters and some returning familiar faces. I hope fans will enjoy solving the mystery with Enola!”

Springer continued, “it was a great pleasure to develop this new Enola Holmes adventure with such a talented team, and it is an even greater pleasure to be personally included as a cameo in the graphic novel!  Can you find me?”

Nancy Springer’s Edgar Award-nominated book series, The Enola Holmes Mysteries, is comprised of six novels that put a dynamic female twist on the world’s greatest detective and his brilliant family, and features the rousing adventures of Enola, a gifted super-sleuth in her own right who often outsmarts her famous siblings. The first film became one of the most-watched original Netflix films of all time with an estimated 77 million households choosing the film over its first four weeks of release. The sequel is currently filming.


Mickey George (writer) is a writer and illustrator, whose debut graphic novel The Heart Hunter released from Legendary Comics in August 2021, and is working on her LGBTQ+ steampunk webcomic The King of Trouble. When not writing comics, she works at the library and writes game scripts for visual novel apps. She currently lives in Salt Lake City with two big dogs, and way, way too many books.

Giorgia Sposito (artist) is an Italian comic artist who has worked for several publishers. She started as an inker for IDW Publishing on Doctor Who: Prisoners of Time and Star Trek: Khan. Since then, she has worked as an artist for Zenescope Entertaiment (Charmed, the Wonderland series), Titan Comics (Doctor Who: The Tenth Doctor series, The Many Lives of Doctor Who, and Doctor Who: The Thirteenth Doctor Vol 1: A New Beginning, and Dynamite Comics (Bettie Page & Apocatequil’s Ring). In 2019, she worked for Legendary Comics on Carnival Row: Sparrowhawk. She is currently working again with Legendary Comics on Enola Holmes and on a creator-owned project for Vault Comics.

Book Review: Charles Phillips and Melanie Frances’s “The Sherlock Holmes Escape Book – The Adventure of the British Museum”

You must look for a stone in the middle of Egypt. For the King is in danger.”

The new year appears to have been dragging on for some time, you have read every Sherlock Holmes story you could get your hands on (twice, at least) and you feel like you need something to take your mind off the general state of the world while actively engaging in an adventure? Then the second instalment of The Sherlock Holmes Escape Book will be perfect for you. The cover itself is already immensely appealing, featuring the movable circular translation device which allows you to follow clues and translate them into numbers, colours, letters, hieroglyphs and other signs in order to figure out which path you have to take through the adventure. The golden Sutton Hoo helmet in front of the portico of the British Museum is an extra lovely touch.

The adventure starts off when Holmes and Watson visit the Egyptian wing of the British Museum in order to decipher a code that appears to have been written in Egyptian hieroglyphics. The assistant director, Sir Alisdair Stuart, had begged Holmes repeatedly for a meeting, but Holmes, much to Watson’s astonishment, had always declined. Yet, the mysterious letter by Lady Arabella Conk-Singleton, the wife of one of Mycroft Holmes’s acquaintances from the Diogenes Club, has caught Holmes’s attention, as it hints heavily at a possible assassination attempt on King Edward VII mere weeks after the death of his mother, Queen Victoria.

The venture is interrupted when Holmes and Watson are called to the Enlightenment Gallery, where the assistant director has collapsed and appears to be near death. Holmes finds several intriguing documents in Sir Alisdair’s breast pocket and begins to realise that the case he initially ignored might be of significant interest to him after all.

At this point, much like a choose-your-own-adventure game, the escape book takes off into several directions.

Through the second person narrative perspective, which admittedly takes some getting used to when we expect the narrative voice of John Watson, the reader automatically takes on the role of Holmes – and experiences the adventure through his eyes. There are documents and maps to be studied, riddles to be solved, hieroglyphs deciphered, objects identified and red herrings ignored – all in the sublime setting of the British Museum, whose objects are a reflection both of British Imperialism and a far reaching, never ending curiosity – not unlike Sherlock Holmes himself. (A side note: Holmes himself is rightfully critical of some of the objects’ residence in London rather than in their place of origin).  

I will not go into further detail concerning the story, as those forking paths lie ahead for each reader to tread, but I promise that the case will keep you engaged and on your toes, especially if you are a fan of the British Museum. In times like these, when a visit to the museum seems like an unachievable dream, it is lovely indeed to return to these majestic halls and be surrounded by the kings of old.

If you happen to get lost, there are hints available at the end of the book to help you along, as well as solutions, in case you need them. Furthermore, the book includes Watson’s handy Morse code notes and two pages on which you can jot down notes to help you with the riddles. I must admit that I wrote mine down on post-its, so I can pick the book up again without finding the solutions already scribbled into it and start the journey afresh. One final note: the illustrations in the book are truly wonderful, as you can see above, but my absolutely favourite one is found between story-parts 11 and 12. Once you see it, you will know why.

And now, without further ado, go and visit London and the British Museum in 1901 and help save the King!

The book was published by Ammonite Press and is available in all good book stores (go and support your local indie-book shop! For the UK, check here, and for the US, where the book is released in March 2021, here)

As a little bonus – and to pass the time – why don’t you check out the Hieroglyphic code wheel’s online version and write secret messages to your friends?

We consulted on “Enola Holmes,” and now we’re reacting to it! [Video]

Credit: Legendary Pictures

In the early Spring of 2019, BSBs Maria and Ashley were hired by Legendary Pictures to serve as technical advisors on a new film, then titled Ferndell. The film was an adaptation of the first book in Nancy Springer’s YA series about Sherlock Holmes’s clever teenage sister, Enola. The titular protagonist was to be played by Millie Bobby Brown, but other than that, very little about the film was set. Legendary specifically wanted consultants who not only had a deep knowledge of Sherlock Holmes, but who were women. The film was about a woman, it was based on a novel written by a woman, the target audience would primarily be girls and women, and we were pleased that they sought out women to offer feedback on the script.

We were only involved at that early stage of the project: we read the first full draft of Jack Thorne’s script and, independently, generated extensive notes. We are both Sherlockians, English professors, and aficionados of Victorian history. We brought all of that knowledge to bear, offering details on everything from canonical chronologies to characterizations, from Victorian vocabulary to symbolism, from late-19th-century politics to modes of transportation. Once we sent off our notes, it was up to Thorne and the creative team behind the film to make use of them how they saw fit.

From that point on, we learned about the film’s progress along with everyone else: Harry Bradbeer was attached to direct it. Henry Cavill and Sam Claflin were cast as the Holmes brothers and Helena Bonham Carter was set to play Enola’s mother. The announcement was made that the film would be released on Netflix (ultimately a serendipitous choice, given the state of cinemas during the pandemic). Finally, trailers started airing and a release date, 23 September, was announced.

We decided to watch the film for the first time together and record the experience. The video includes our genuine reactions as we encounter the material for the first time since we read that early script 18 months ago—laughter, facepalms, swearing, discussion, and lots of wine. It’s meant to serve as a light commentary, to be viewed alongside the film. So if you’d like to laugh and watch with us, cue up your Netflix, open the video, and have your beverage of choice at the ready!

Watch Here or Below!

Note that we both signed non-disclosure agreements, so we don’t discuss any details of the script we read. This is obviously not in any way affiliated with Legendary, Netflix, or the film Enola Holmes.

We hope you enjoy!

WB leads us on… announcement is the 4K release of the first two

Be honest, did you even know that the third installment of Robert Downey Jr. and Jude Law’s Sherlock Holmes was filming? Or had pre-COVID-19? There were rumors and a few sightings, but there wasn’t a whole lot to go on.

Apparently there was a LOT more going on than any of us thought because Warner Bros decided to explode all of our brains today by oh so casually announcing the third film will be out in September???

Well damn… okay, theories? Screams? Paper bags to breathe into? We’ll take them all.

There are some people saying this may just be the blu-ray release of the first two but why would they hurt us like that.

UPDATE: They have indeed broke our hearts. The first two are being released 4K Ultra HD in September. But maybe we’ll get a title and sneak peek then too? Please?

https://twitter.com/Kaja_Ono/status/1273610276206772224

A Delightful Report of The Left Coast Sherlockian Symposium

By Jen Jones

An autumn weekend in Portland, Oregon is a treasure on its own, but combining that with a Sherlockian symposium makes it extra-special. I recently attended the inaugural Left Coast Sherlockian Symposium, led by noted Sherlockian Elinor Gray, on the Portland State University campus. Modeled after conferences like Scintillation of Scions, this symposium was a day and a half of engaging talks about all facets of Sherlockiana.

Left Coast Sherlockian Symposium
Photo: Rachelle Hacmac

Robert Perret opened the symposium by asking us an important question: is Sherlockian scholarship scholarly? He investigated the pros and cons of this hypothesis, but at the end, asked us the most important question: does it really matter? At the end of the day, writing articles about Holmes and his world gives Sherlockians an opportunity to engage in academic research without all the pressure of submissions, peer reviews, etc. We are free to expound as we wish on our favorite detective and his doctor friend.

Left Coast Sherlockian Symposium
Photo: Rachelle Hacmac

Sonia Fetherson and Julia McKuras, in their presentation “Nevertheless, She Persisted,” gave us an engaging and thoughtful history behind the women who broke the glass ceiling of the BSI. Women who worked twice as hard for half as much recognition, and in some cases agreed never to darken the doorstep of the BSI dinner in exchange for an investiture. That it took until 1991 for women to be invited as equal members to the annual dinner, and therefore be recognized as equals in the American Sherlockian community, speaks to our reluctance in American society to accept that women do, in fact, deserve equal footing alongside men, even in the 21st century. We women in Sherlockiana owe a great deal to the courageous women who led the way, some of whom never lived to see the fruits of their labor.

Next, we were treated to Chuck Kovacic’s entertaining presentation on how to put together the ultimate 221B Baker Street sitting room, complete with period accurate objects from the UK – some of which are incredibly hard to find! Kovacic’s gift for storytelling made this talk more than a list of things. It was clear that this endeavor had been a labor of love, his personal expression of what Sherlock Holmes meant to him.

Left Coast Sherlockian Symposium
Photo: Rachelle Hacmac

Haley and Elizabeth then gave a talk about how Holmestice, a semiannual fanfic/fanart exchange. They talked about how it grew out of the Yuletide fic exchanges, the give-one-get-one philosophy, matching creators to prompts, and ensuring that everyone who gives also receives. Holmestice is an intricate undertaking, and so much happens behind the scenes to make sure it runs smoothly and that no one is left out.

After lunch, John Longenbaugh gave a presentation and a demonstration of Baritsu (or is it Bartitsu?), the martial art that Holmes practiced and used to best his opponent Moriarty at Reichenbach Falls. The demonstration was conducted by demonstration by members of Seattle’s humorously-named 19th century martial arts club, the Barton-Wright-Alfred-Hutton-Alliance-for-Historically-Accurate-Hoplology-and-Antagonistics, or BWAHAHAHA.

Left Coast Sherlockian Symposium
Photo: Rachelle Hacmac

Nancy Holder took us on a tour of various Holmes adaptations in science fiction, as well as Conan Doyle’s keen interest in the supernatural. When it comes to Holmes adaptations, there is a little something for everyone, from dinosaurs (Asylum Sherlock Holmes) to Holodeck adventures (Star Trek: The Next Generation) to a futuristic Holmes with a robotic Watson (Sherlock Holmes in the 22nd Century). While these adaptations came long after Conan Doyle was gone, he was also interested in the supernatural, be it seances or fairies.

Left Coast Sherlockian Symposium
Photo: Rachelle Hacmac

Rounding out the presentations for day one was Dr. Bruce Parker, who talked about medicine in the Holmes canon. Medicine plays a crucial part in the stories and novels, and not just because Holmes’ companion is Dr Watson. Many of the cases center around a medical malady or the use and abuse of drugs and other substances.

After the day’s talks came the evening’s festivities! We met in the hotel restaurant for the ball, decked out in our finest, to catch up with our Sherlockian friends over supper. Entertainment for the evening was supplied a Victorian conjurer, Professor D R Schreiber, who wowed us with card tricks, sleight-of-hand, and playing with fire! His act was well-paced and wholly enjoyable. We also enjoyed a proper séance led by mediums Sharon Lewis and Sharon Sanandra Kumara. It was a fascinating experience to see mediums communing with the spirit world, and one may wonder if the spirit of Conan Doyle himself saw fit to observe us that evening.

Our second day of presentations started Sunday morning with the quiz answers and raffle drawing led by Margie Deck. The selection of raffle items was impressive, and many lucky souls went home with unique treasures. Following the raffle, Lyndsay Faye led a discussion about writing Sherlock Holmes, and historical fiction in general. Lyndsay has experience writing both Holmes pastiches and historical novels, and her stories are always compelling. One of the most poignant and relevant statements she made is that historical fiction writers have an opportunity to give voice to people who didn’t have a voice in works that were written during the time period. “All novels are sequels,” she said; how true that is.

Left Coast Sherlockian Symposium
Photo: Rachelle Hacmac

Tim Johnson then took us to church, Holmes-style, with his meditation on a Sherlockian world, using Mary Oliver’s “Hum” as a framework for his reflections. The experience was transcendent. He asked us to recognize that diversity is not only good but important, and that we need more diversity in Sherlockian circles and fandom. Part of that diversity is recognizing fanfiction’s place in the Sherlockian world. Tim acknowledged that the Hugo win for Archive of Our Own was a “really big deal. A really, really big deal.” We think so too.

Kris “Pepper” Hambrick then led a discussion on how to perform Sherlock Holmes, based on her experience as an actor in general, and as someone who has played Sherlock Holmes twice. What are the qualities that make a performance Holmesian? As a viewer, what do we look for in the Holmeses of stage and screen?

Left Coast Sherlockian Symposium
Photo: Rachelle Hacmac

Closing out the weekend was Brad Keefauver, best known as Sherlock Peoria, discussing the origins of the Sherlock Holmes multiverse. Over the decades there have been many variations of Holmes in stage, screen and print, not to mention the multitude of fanfiction written about our favorite consulting detective. Fic allows us to explore Holmes in different time periods, different settings, different careers, and even different genders. By accepting the concept of the multiverse, we can have all the headcanons; Joseph Bell, Conan Doyle’s real-life inspiration for Sherlock Holmes, can exist at his full capacity, and Holmes himself can exist at HIS full capacity. An intriguing hypothesis, for sure!

Left Coast Sherlockian Symposium
Photo: Rachelle Hacmac

Sadly, as all good things must, the weekend came to a close. The Stormy Petrels, Sound of the Baskerville members, and Watsonians all gathered for group pictures. We did a final tour of the vendor tables and picked up the last of our treasures. Goodbyes were said, thanks were given, and hugs exchanged. But fear not, we will be back next year!

The Great SherlockeDCC Scavenger Hunt 2k19 Is Here!

Going to San Diego Comic Con this year? Want to win a LOT of great prizes and have a LOT of fun doing it? Then you’ll need to join The Great SherlockeDCC Scavenger Hunt!

Follow clues, solve puzzles, and complete a fun and exciting scavenger hunt all over SDCC for great prizes. Get ready for a mystery worthy of the multiverse!

This event lasts all SDCC, from 6:00PM Wednesday to noon on Sunday. Winners will be contacted on Sunday by 12:30PM.

The Great SherlockeDCC Scavenger Hunt is open to all con attendees regardless of badge. The purpose of the game is to accumulate as many points as possible by completing tasks from The Tin Box, Dr. Watson’s storage file where he kept all of his and Sherlock Holmes adventures.

This year, there’s a mystery worthy of the multiverse. Scavenger hunt participants can join as an individual or as a team.

Tasks will range from the simple,take a photo with a Dr. Strange or Iron Man cosplayer (double points for both in the same photo),to the extremely difficult, get a photo with a celebrity in a hotel elevator. 

Extra incentives and bonus tasks with high point values will be revealed throughout the convention via Twitter using the #SherlockeDCC hashtag.
At the end of the convention, points will be tallied and three awards will be given to participants.

PRIZES

The Napoleon of Crime: Highest point award

The Consulting Detective: Most tasks completed

The Gold Star Award: Awarded to a team who tried really hard and made us laugh, but maybe did a really crappy job.

Buy tickets for The Great SherlockeDCC Scavenger Hunt 2k19

Prizes will be items donated and/or supplied by sponsors and partners and will be hand-delivered or mailed to winning participants. For a list of the prizes (so far), CLICK HERE.

2018 Winners

TICKETS ARE ON SALE SATURDAY, JUNE 8TH AT 9AM PST/12PM EST

The Great Sherlock Holmes Debate – May 25th

Live at Undershaw and worldwide online!

Join fellow Sherlockians for a special Sherlock Holmes event being hosted from Undershaw, the former home of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and now the home of Stepping Stones School.

One hundred guests will join us in person, with 400 additional tickets for fans to join online from anywhere around the world – online fans will be able to participate in the debate by live chat.

Times are GMT United Kingdom:

6.45pm – Welcome and intros

7.00pm – The Art of Sherlock Holmes – Live from the Ann Norton Studios in West Palm Beach

We meet the fifteen artists that have created incredible new pieces of Sherlockian art for The Art of Sherlock Holmes and have an exclusive first look at the art live.

7.30pm – The Great Sherlock Holmes Debate 2019 – ‘Have We Gone Too Far?’

Sherlock Holmes holds the world record for the character most portrayed on screen – but have we gone too far? There are dozens of adaptations and Sherlockian experts from around the world have 1 slide and 90 seconds to defend a Sherlock adaptation. BBC SherlockElementary, Granada Studios, Warner Brothers, Sherlock Gnomes, Pokemon Sherlock, Will Ferrell Sherlock and many others will be argued for and against!

Featuring Lyndsay FayeBonnie MacBirdAmy ThomasMattias Bostrom,  Jay Ganguly, Mary Platt, Dan AndriaccoDerrick Belanger , Janina Woods and many more of the world’s leading Sherlockians.

Wrap-up and favourite fan comments from the online fans.

8:15pm – The Deductionist performing live

Ben Cardall is the UK’s leading deductionist and will be performing a live feat. Anyone who has seen Ben live will know that it’s impossible to guess what treat he will have in store for us – just that it will be amazing.

8:30pm – Sherlock Holmes Raffle

Prizes include:

*  $100 of books of your choice from sherlockholmesbooks.com.

*  A signed item from the original BBC Sherlock set (signed by the head set designer).

*  A personal tour of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Home, Undershaw including photo sitting in his study where he wrote many of the Sherlock Holmes stories.

*  Original Benedict Cumberbatch painting by a Sherlockian artist.

*  A programme from the Royal Shakespeare Company’s ground-breaking production of William Gillette’s play Sherlock Holmes at the Aldwych Theatre in 1974, signed by the late Tim Pigott-Smith at the Sherlock Holmes pub, during filming for the BBC TV documentary Timeshift: How to Be Sherlock Holmes. Tim was Dr Watson in the play and in 1986 starred as Holmes in The Valley of Fear on BBC Radio 4.

*  A mint copy of The Wit and Wisdom of Sherlock Holmes: Humorous and Inspirational Quotes Celebrating the World’s Greatest Detective. 

*  A mint copy of The Sherlock Holmes Miscellany by Roger Johnson & Jean Upton, foreword by Gyles Brandreth, signed by the authors.

 … and many more!

Tickets are available now from:

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-great-sherlock-holmes-debate-2019-tickets-59285105346 

Ticket proceeds will go to Stepping Stones School and Happy Life Children’s Home.

In Memoriam: Susan Diamond

I stepped into the Bensenville, Illinois Public Library thinking that they must have confused me with some other author.  One of, you know… note. Who had written things of import and carried gravitas in her clutch bag and smelled like the finest Mont Blanc pens.  After all, this library was on beautiful grounds, carefully curated with a stunning stone fireplace and public reading room, filled with art and statuary and the scariest, sleekest library amphitheater I’d ever seen.  Surely they had the wrong person.

But there was a simpler explanation, and the simplest are often the best: Susan Z. Diamond had invited me to speak there, and she was one of the kindest, funniest, sharpest Sherlockians I’d ever broken bread with.  My girlfriend and I ended up being feted at her beautiful home outside of Chicago. As many times as I’d already spent chuffed to bits by Susan’s company, that’s when I knew how far her generosity of spirit went.  Susan was not a once-a-year Sherlockian, or a lets-all-meet-at-a-club-for-$15-drinks devotee. She was a giver and a hostess, a charmer and a friend, and she will be sorely missed.

Susan was by any standards a highly successful woman—an English Lit major via the University of Chicago, with her MBA from DePaul University; a sought-after finance lecturer and the president of Diamond Associates, Ltd; and a tireless civic volunteer.  But it was in her capacity as a passionate Sherlockian that she left the deepest impression on all our lives. I can recall being terrified of attending American Library Association conferences at the start of my career, and Susan on each occasion threw a party for the deerstalker set and introduced me to all and sundry.  She was for many years the co-editor with Marilyn McKay of The Serpentine Muse, the Adventuresses of Sherlock Holmes’s publication of plugs and dottles and poems and toasts and essays and reflections, a journal that embodies all the joy and silliness and erudition and scholarship and panache that women bring to the great feast that is the Sherlockian table.  

As if that weren’t enough, she held multiple key positions (including Chairperson) in The Beacon Society, a group devoutly dedicated to rewarding educators for teaching the canon, encouraging all sorts of educational facilities to engage children in learning through the adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson, and providing templates and assistance for those interested in spreading the gospel of the Great Detective.  And as if that weren’t enough, her namesake award, the Susan Z. Diamond Beacon Society Award, grants a certificate, check, subscriptions to the Muse and the Baker Street Journal, and report on the winner’s project to the top applicant responsible for introducing the most people to Sherlock Holmes in meaningful fashion. What could be more important? What could be more admirable, than to share what we all treasure?

I’m doubtless leaving out countless anecdotes and biographical milestones about Susan, because I wasn’t there to enjoy her company and the company of other ASH sooner.  But that’s the beautiful thing about Susan; she didn’t care about pedigree, or credentials, or gatekeeping. She welcomed new Sherlockians with open arms. It was her entire raison d’etre.

So while I can’t tell you tales from her early days, I can tell you that she personally contacted BSB Taylor asking that she write for the Muse more often—because Taylor is marvelously talented, but doesn’t always think so herself.  I can tell you that she laughed at jokes made by newcomers. I can tell you that she knew quicker than most when someone felt uncomfortable or intimidated, and put a stop to it. And I can tell you that when I ended up embroiled in a Sherlockian controversy (there have been many), and someone objected to an event of mine being listed in the Muse, Susan’s response was, “We report on the doings of all Adventuresses in our publication, and Lyndsay Faye is an Adventuress.”  End of story.

I will miss Susan’s presence.  I will regret not having communicated more in recent months.  I will feel for those close to her, and wish them all the peace possible at such a time.  But most importantly, I will strive to be like Susan. She was a true beacon—and she kindled lights in more fledgling Sherlockians than we can ever hope to calculate.

Welcome to 221 Be Here

Welcome to 221 Be Here! We’ve created a Facebook group as a home for fans of the world of Sherlock Holmes. We’re aiming to be a space that is welcoming to everyone who loves the characters, stories, and worlds of Sherlock Holmes. Yes, that includes all adaptations in other media, pastiche, and fanworks such as cosplay, fanfiction and fan art.

We’ll be hosting discussions here on all matters of Sherlockiana, and we invite you to join in, make suggestions, and help us build a wonderful community here.

We’re also committed to being a safe space where harassment, bullying, unwelcome sexual attention and other unpleasant behavior is not tolerated. By joining the group, you’re signing up to uphold our code of conduct and anti-harassment policy, which you can find here.

Yes, that’s a lot of words. But if you’re a halfway decent human being, you’ve got nothing to worry about. We hope that putting these rules in place and committing ourselves to them will ensure that everyone has an enjoyable experience here. We’re glad you’re here.

Amazing Sherlock Holmes Wooden Figure Kickstarter from SchweizerCraft

The SchweizerCraft Sherlock Holmes Collection is a series of wooden figures featuring characters from the Sherlock Holmes stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Chris Schweizer, an Eisner-nominated cartoonist, has been a long-time friend and fan of the podcast, and chance are you’ve seen his work at 221B Con and other conventions. He’s amazing. What’s also amazing is this full wooden set of Sherlock Holmes characters from the original canon.

He’s launched a Kickstarter to get the project funded as well as to make them available for purchase in small and full sets. The wooden figures are each roughly 4” (10.5cm) tall on ¼” (6mm) Baltic birch, finished with a non-toxic water-based poly seal.

In addition to the figures themselves, there’s also a digital booklet available that features all of the drawings of the characters, with annotations about their physical descriptions from the Sir Arthur Conan Doyle stories, and artist notes about the design decisions made when drawing them. 

He can even make YOU into a figurine. To find out more, check out SchweizerCraft’s KickStarter.

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