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by ThaPig
This little horror story is a "tale within the tale" for my comic.
I can't upload it to my page yet, because this is supposed to happen after the present cliffhanger in the story is resolved, but I want to share it here because I'm happy with how it came out.

I also revealed how Ridgelonians' feet work.


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Type: Comic
Published: 2 years, 11 months ago
Rating: General

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ChadBull
2 years, 11 months ago
Your pig character is cute as hell.
ThaPig
2 years, 11 months ago
Realy? He is not supposed to be.   ( − (oo) − )
SenGrisane
2 years, 11 months ago
Everything is cute to someone :3
ChadBull
2 years, 11 months ago
Well I think he is lol
ThaPig
2 years, 11 months ago
Yeah, I guess cute is in the eye of the beholder  ( ᐢ (oo) ᐢ )

tailgat
2 years, 11 months ago
looovely parable. subject, art, rhythm, text/drawings proportions...
" I want to share it here because I'm happy with how it came out.

thanks and yes, i think you should be.
ThaPig
2 years, 11 months ago
Thanks for your detailed review. This is the greatest satisfaction I get from my art.
( ᐢ (oo) ᐢ )
TheAtomicDog
2 years, 11 months ago
Love the Rigelonian analog title for the Boy Who Cried Wolf.
ThaPig
2 years, 11 months ago
One of the inspirations for this story is similar moralizing tales our grandmother used to tell us. They usually ended with misbehaving kids dying horribly as a result of their transgressions. Old catholic children's books were full of those, often illustrated in graphic detail. I remember one that showed a boy bothering a horse, in the next panel the horse kicks him right in the face and the story ends with a picture of the funeral with the whole family crying around his coffin. Forty years later I'm still afraid of horses.  
( ᗒ (oo) ᗕ )
TheAtomicDog
2 years, 11 months ago
I am old enough to remember reading some of those fairy tales in their more-original editions, decades ago.
Disney has so sanitized the concept of the fairy tale we tend to forget just how hardcore those stories were.

I mean, hell, have you ever read the original Oz books? Shit was real, yo.
NaughtyThorn
2 years, 11 months ago
Or some of the older Cinderela tales. Walking 'as a princess' felt like walking on glass shards with every step. And as 'payback' to the stepmother and sisters, Cinderela has her new husband force them to wear metal shoes that are constantly being heated by burning coals.
ThaPig
2 years, 11 months ago
Old fairytales were full of gore and violence... and not so old ones too. There was a movie I saw when I was a kid that was pretty disturbing because it had anthro animals that walked on two legs and wore clothes, but still killed and ate each other. You'll rarely see a character actually being killed on-screen in a Disney movie, it's usually implied or shown tastefully. But this movie showed actual deaths like a character hanged by the neck with a rope and dying on screen.
TheAtomicDog
2 years, 11 months ago
Most likely a European release. It almost sounds familiar...

And of course, George Orwell does furry Cold War politics with Animal Farm.
TheAtomicDog
2 years, 11 months ago
The Brothers Grimm came from an era where such tales did not scrimp on the fear factor because that was how a generally illiterate population taught the Littles not to fuck around.
Indeed, the idea that children are precious-darling-innocent-delicate-angel-babies and need to be absurdly coddled is an entirely post-WW2 event.
ThaPig
2 years, 11 months ago
Yeah, back in the times when kids were forced to smoke their (believed to be) medical tobacco and go to work in the coal mines, scary fairy tales were the least of their worries.
TheAtomicDog
2 years, 11 months ago
Shorpy.com is a remarkable website that complies old photography from the Civil War era up into the 1960s.
There are dozens of plates showing children, including some very small tykes, working long hours in coal mines, textile factories, selling wares on the streets and legit Newsies. Most were taken by two photogs for the US government in the early 30s, during FDR's first term, but there are some from before then.
ThaPig
2 years, 10 months ago
Damn, I was checking and they have lots of old photos. I have a few old pictures I would love to scan and upload to a site like that, but I could not find any way to login or make an account with them
TheAtomicDog
2 years, 10 months ago
Waaaaaayyy at the very bottom of the long scroll-o-riffic page, there is a 'contact us' button. Give that a try.
ThaPig
2 years, 10 months ago
"create an account" sents me to a "page not found" message
TheAtomicDog
2 years, 10 months ago
I saw nothing else.
So I guess they got nothing. Probably a "no new accounts" type of deal.
MuQ
MuQ
2 years, 11 months ago
Enjoyed it :)
ThaPig
2 years, 11 months ago
Thanks!  
( ᐢ (oo) ᐢ )
Calbeck
2 years, 11 months ago
Great stuff! Gonna drop a link to it on Minds so other folks can find it.
ThaPig
2 years, 11 months ago
Thanks! ( ᐢ (oo) ᐢ )
But it's not uploaded on my page yet.
Irfie
2 years, 11 months ago
Makes me think of possible morals though, as I can think of a few. However, probably for Ridgelonians it's obvious which are true and can be taken serious by only an illogical and erring alien.

(feet hm... this goes there... and that is for some other purpose...)
ThaPig
2 years, 11 months ago
I'm glad you are enjoying it. I will continue to include Ridgelonian culture and their particular morality in the comic.
NaughtyThorn
2 years, 11 months ago
And as usual, I greatly enjoy your content.
ThaPig
2 years, 11 months ago
Thanks!   ( ᐢ (oo) ᐢ )  
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