![]() So that type of oral storytelling style, I found translated really well into comics.īecause comics has a lot of the same concerns where it’s about having a narrative voice that feels very natural in the same way that oral storytelling does and it’s about boiling things down to a really distilled essence in an allegorical form so that you can get an entire story down on the page very quickly in a very compact way. I think the thing with fairy tales is that they’re allegories, so they are already a very short and distilled format for storytelling because the idea is that you’re not necessarily doing deep dives into character feelings and motivations and all this it’s much more about: here is a simple set of characters and a simple conflict that we’re going to watch play out in a narrative style which is reminiscent of oral storytelling, because that’s where a lot of fairy tales are coming from originally, as you know, sitting around the campfire with each other and telling each other stories that you can speak in five to 10 minutes to other people who are listening to you. Fairy tales really appealed to me for that situation as a storyteller, where you want something which is quick, self contained and manageable in a short amount of time. I guess the first one of these that I did was in 2016 and that would have been “The Fish Wife.” I knew that I wanted to do a 12 page comic in about 12 hours so I was trying to think of what is something that is relatively small, self contained in terms of storytelling that I could knock out in 12 hours, and also that I could post to Twitter along the way, you know, make a little Twitter thread of all of the pages as I am completing them and drawing them so that people can follow along in real time as I’m finishing this story. ![]() I don’t want my hand to divorce itself from my body because I did an unhealthy amount of work in a 24 hour period. I do that, but I also cheat every single year, including drawing fewer pages or doing my like scripting and penciling beforehand and just doing the coloring of the day of, because I am old and tired and I like sleeping. Melanie Gilman: So it definitely started, as you mentioned, with 24 hour comics, where the idea is essentially that you’re supposedly supposed to be drawing a 24 page comic in 24 hours. There’re so many questions in that which I kind of already have an answer to – ex: Where did it come from is the 24 hour comics – but what inspired you to first approach this project? Your new book, “Other Ever Afters,” is about telling modern fairy tales from a classic lens, as opposed to modernizing a fairy tale. ![]() To get us started, let’s talk about fairytales. ![]()
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