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Page 24 of a comic strip I am working on that is set in ancient Rome and is about the early life of Gaius Julius Caesar.

This page makes reference to Sulla’s well-documented bisexuality. It also demonstrates his vanity through his use of the wig in old age (the wig is not actually historically documented; the idea comes from Colleen McCullough’s novel “Fortune’s Favourites”, though her arguments in favour of the hair piece are very convincing – for example if you look at a bust that is believed to be Sulla in later life, it certainly looks like he has a strand of straight hair protruding out near his ears from under the curly hair!)

Also, in reality, Roman statues were painted to resemble the person they represented, so the bust in panel 2 would actually be flesh coloured, with ginger hair and blue eyes, but I elected to keep it stone coloured because when I did colour it to look like Sulla it just looked a bit too real; like he had a severed head on a plinth!!

Description
Page 24 of a comic strip I am working on that is set in ancient Rome and is about the early life of Gaius Julius Caesar.

This page makes reference to Sulla’s well-documented bisexuality. It also demonstrates his vanity through his use of the wig in old age (the wig is not actually historically documented; the idea comes from Colleen McCullough’s novel “Fortune’s Favourites”, though her arguments in favour of the hair piece are very convincing – for example if you look at a bust that is believed to be Sulla in later life, it certainly looks like he has a strand of straight hair protruding out near his ears from under the curly hair!)

Also, in reality, Roman statues were painted to resemble the person they represented, so the bust in panel 2 would actually be flesh coloured, with ginger hair and blue eyes, but I elected to keep it stone coloured because when I did colour it to look like Sulla it just looked a bit too real; like he had a severed head on a plinth!!