Whew! This is why the comic’s late, peeps. Unlike the last pencil-heavy comic I did, I couldn’t stay up till morn this time. Hope you like it!
About “”horto in urbs”: one of Chicago’s official mottoes is “urbs in horto,” meaning “city in a garden.” Graceland is very much like a garden in a city, hence the reversal :)
“Urbs In Horto” is on my stupid Park District work shirt, so there for I hate it, haha. :P
The thing I love about Graceland Cemetery (aside from “Eternal Silence” and Inez Clarke) is that so many of the Chicago heavy hitters buried there like Fields, Palmer, Pullman, etc. have these huge, ornate tombs and headstones, where Louis Sullivan, an architecht, has a relatively simple one. He just has that big stone with the seal on it.
And even that was put there posthumously by devoted fans; he just had a normal ol’ boring headstone originally.
As much as I hate the idea of the silly excess celebrated by the Potters, the Honorés and the like…they sure left some kickass tombs.
Seriously, you just can’t argue with a Roman temple sitting on an island to mark your burial place, haha.