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A commissioned (and rather gruesome) comic for a magazine, based on an old Congolese trickster fable. The text has been adapted by Frank Jonker, I did the artwork.
Translation of the text:
Panel 1
One day Kabundi saw hunters that were looking for game. He warned the animals...
"It would be good if we all stopped walking. If the animals that have hooves cut of their hooves, that have paws cut off their paws, so the hunters can't find our tracks anymore..."
All animals thought it was a good trick of Kabundi. They cut off their paws and decided to stay still on one spot without walking around any longer.
Panel 2
But at night...
Panel 3
-
Panel 4
"Hippo, we forbade walking around! Then why do you go and wander around anyway? You betray us and that is why we shall kill you."
"But..."
Panel 5
And the night after that...
Panel 6
"We forbade walking around. Why do you walk around anyway?"
"You betray us. We shall kill you."
Panel 7
And so...
<Hippo>
<Lion>
<Elephant>
<Buffalo>
THE END.
A commissioned (and rather gruesome) comic for a magazine, based on an old Congolese trickster fable. The text has been adapted by Frank Jonker, I did the artwork.
Translation of the text:
Panel 1
One day Kabundi saw hunters that were looking for game. He warned the animals...
"It would be good if we all stopped walking. If the animals that have hooves cut of their hooves, that have paws cut off their paws, so the hunters can't find our tracks anymore..."
All animals thought it was a good trick of Kabundi. They cut off their paws and decided to stay still on one spot without walking around any longer.
Panel 2
But at night...
Panel 3
-
Panel 4
"Hippo, we forbade walking around! Then why do you go and wander around anyway? You betray us and that is why we shall kill you."
"But..."
Panel 5
And the night after that...
Panel 6
"We forbade walking around. Why do you walk around anyway?"
"You betray us. We shall kill you."
Panel 7
And so...
<Hippo>
<Lion>
<Elephant>
<Buffalo>
THE END.
Category Artwork (Traditional) / Comics
Species Unspecified / Any
Size 1250 x 900px
File Size 1.66 MB
I find traditional fables very charming because of the cultural gap. This is a funny story but it doesn't seem to have an aesop like we are used in Western fables. But maybe the meaning would be more obvious if we were listening a village elder narrate it by voice. There are some visionary books like "Moby Dick" that I understood only after hearing a good dramatic reading of them.
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