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Friday, May 21, 2010

Pet slavery in a hole in the earth




Hi, friends.
Long time no see! My exam days are nearly over, just one left (about western films, the genre of). There´s a new web comic I´d like to recommend to you: Seven Years in Dog-Land by John Avatar.
He has me spellbound with his original and revealing fable. The drawings can look too rugged in the first place, but if one take a second look, see the bravery and belief in his manner of drawing. He don´t play safe, but draws the figures just as he see them in his mind, come what strange lines that may. This, strangely, gives the characters a reality you believe in. I love his drawing.
The plot is intelligent and original, again, strangely, for a story like this, believable. It has the truth you can find in Aesop´s fables.
Here is what John Avatar himself says on his webpage:

"I like comics. Not for what they are and how they are perceived today, but what they can be.
I like dogs. Who doesn't? They're man's best friend. But I wonder if they've ever made a conscious choice to be man's best friend.
And if the position of humans and dogs are interchanged, how will we see the world from their eyes?
That is my pondering, and there's no better medium than comics to tell my story.
So I've blended these two ingredients, and conjured what you see here: a comic of talking dogs, beastly men, Shakespearean undertones, and a great journey.

When Alice runs away from home to look for her lost dog, little she knows that she may never return. She stumbles upon the kingdom of Dog-Land, an alternate world where dogs are the masters, and humans, their pets.
Under the crimson sky of this misshapen realm, the sprightly ten-year-old begins her true journey – of discovering what it truly means to be human – as she seeks a way back to our world.
Seven Years in Dog-Land is a literary fantasy set in a gritty and cruel kingdom of dogs. It is an exploration of humans’ relationship nature and the human condition itself.

When I first came across the “Seven Ages of Man”, as seen in Shakespeare’s “As you like it”, I knew it would be a good skeleton for fleshing out the plot for my story. This led to deciding on having Alice spend 7 years on Dog-Land, so each year will coincide with every stage in Shakespeare’s “Seven Ages”. When I got down to the plot details, I was continually surprised by how my story made perfect sense when I simply followed what the “Seven Ages” means."

Take a look at this webcomic. You will not regret it.

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