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Inktober 2020 - Day 16, "Yeah, of course it's Animorphs."
I spent most of 2019 on in an Animorphs brain haze. Seriously, these books will destroy your soul and you'll beg for more. I'm about to start a reread as soon as I can. Maybe it'll motivate me to finish the fanfic. And the animated show pitch. And do issue 4 of "Untitled Animorphs Zine."
This piece inspired me to do a whole zine of Stephen Crane poems set to a cruelly ironic set of scenes from the novels, for issue 3. "Do not weep, maiden, for war is kind." I redrew this piece for that, and it turned out way more fun to draw him actually morphing and flying out of his clothes.
For the uninitiated - one of these kids escapes his abusive home life by intentionally trapping himself in the body of a red-tailed hawk. Accidentallyonpurpose. He's angsty and thoughtful and likes flying, but it isn't so much fun to live in a tree and eat rats and be fundamentally cut off from the entire human race. He has an on-the-page suicide attempt after less than a month. These books are incredibly, incredibly heavy and dark and now there's graphic novels of them! Go patronize!
He's everyone's favorite, and also SUCH a trans mood that everybody and their mom has written him as trans in one direction or the other. I actually doodled him once saying "If I was your favorite Animorph, you're trans! Congratulations!" I avoided reading the books for decades because as a kid his story poked at my heart in places I wasn't ready to be poked.
Also, when I did this, I'd been taking apart old books in Fraktur at the German library, and experimented with LOTS of Fraktur-inspired calligraphy hands.
This piece inspired me to do a whole zine of Stephen Crane poems set to a cruelly ironic set of scenes from the novels, for issue 3. "Do not weep, maiden, for war is kind." I redrew this piece for that, and it turned out way more fun to draw him actually morphing and flying out of his clothes.
For the uninitiated - one of these kids escapes his abusive home life by intentionally trapping himself in the body of a red-tailed hawk. Accidentallyonpurpose. He's angsty and thoughtful and likes flying, but it isn't so much fun to live in a tree and eat rats and be fundamentally cut off from the entire human race. He has an on-the-page suicide attempt after less than a month. These books are incredibly, incredibly heavy and dark and now there's graphic novels of them! Go patronize!
He's everyone's favorite, and also SUCH a trans mood that everybody and their mom has written him as trans in one direction or the other. I actually doodled him once saying "If I was your favorite Animorph, you're trans! Congratulations!" I avoided reading the books for decades because as a kid his story poked at my heart in places I wasn't ready to be poked.
Also, when I did this, I'd been taking apart old books in Fraktur at the German library, and experimented with LOTS of Fraktur-inspired calligraphy hands.
Category All / Transformation
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Most books balance Drama with Comic Relief. Animorphs simply went them one better and juxtaposes abject horror with abject silliness. Yeah, they experience a sentient being die inside their brain, or get tortured until their eyeballs explode, but also they save a guy from drowning once as dolphins and Arnold Schwartzenegger takes credit. Dogs were created by alien hologram dog robots who built the pyramids, whose dying masters were such happy pacifists their spaceship is basically a dog park whose password is, on a keypad, "6." At one point they disguise said robot with designer underwear and a Newt Gingrich Halloween mask. The alien child who doesn't understand social conversation, once, upon being told "answer only with yes or no," asserts that his name is No and it's not a very common name. Cassie is such a bad liar she writes 12345678 as a fake phone number. These books are absurdly silly, and if they were all horror we wouldn't care, but they're silliness mixed in with horror. You're laughing, then screaming, then laughing again. I legitimately don't know any other books like it. They find out in one book that instant oatmeal is a biological weapon, and then treat its ramifications 100% seriously as a biological weapon and the ethics of using it in war. They break into AOL at one point, and their attempt at a "distraction" is a bear mopping a carpeted floor.
Yeah, it's got darkness. But it also has so much light in it. You're gonna love it. The humor really hits its stride by the first Ax book.
Yeah, it's got darkness. But it also has so much light in it. You're gonna love it. The humor really hits its stride by the first Ax book.
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