what is the story? looks kind of creepy to me XD

It's an old Congolese fable where Kabundi the 'marten-squirrel' (I made him a kusimanse) tells the other animals to cut off their legs and staying still in place so the hunters can't follow their tracks. Every night Kabundi takes the paws of one of the animals and walks around on them, so the next morning the other animals blame that animal of not obeying the rules, and kill it. Until they're all dead. The end.

Wow, a regular laff riot...

By the way, Kabundi is a trickster character, his fables are very much like other tricksters (Reynard, Brer Rabbit, Kantil, etc). I can't really find a lot of stories of this character but in general trickster stories are pretty ruthless and gruesome. (and hilarious depending if you have bad taste or not) Brer Rabbit and Reynard are famous but they're no exeption! You should read the original stories :P

I always thought tricksters turned the tables on predators & adversaries who are just too big for their britches. But getting a lot of animals murdered just for the hell of it... sheesh!

That too, but in many stories I've read they're just being assholes for the hell of it. When I was a kid they'd publish Kantjil (a mouse deer trickster character from Indonesia) stories in the Donald Duck magazine. Even in those 'Disneyfied' stories he was just being an asshole for the hell of it. The Disney Brer Rabbit comics are toned down a LOT, but even in there Brer is still has quite... questionalbe behaviour. In the original stories many characters get killed.

whoa that's mean XD

I know this story :D

That is pretty weird o.o You drew that =

Yeah, I was commissioned by the magazine to draw this story.

its quite a horrible story tho, but i guess you drew it well ^^ The lion reminds me a bit of Alex from madagascar imo.

WOW, that's really cool! Beautiful work :) And that fable sounds really intense.

It's really awesome Henrieke. ^.=.^ Congratulations on being published!

artwork looks feaking awesome on this

That is definitely something to be proud of

you must be really, really proud x03
congratz dude =03

Gosh, this is incredibly done! I'm glad you over came the obstacles and problems you faced before, it really paid off!

I don't care much for the story, but your panelling is great, I really like the top right panel on page two. I think the thing Ifind the funniest is how cheerful the hippo and elephant look as they sever their own limbs XD

Amazing ... I love the style so much !

I'm getting a really strong "Pogo" vibe here.

lol

Morbid, but funny!

Love the art; the story is really disturbing (and this is coming from someone who does a comic about a serial killer.)

That's so cool! It's my dream to do something like this..

....super cruel, nonetheless I loooove the it!

This is awesome : )
can i get a copy of it too, please? : )

I'm not sure, normally you can't buy them seperately!
www.kasteelgroeneveld.nl (which is in Dutch, heh..)

a comic inside a book

It's cool to see such a gruesome story illustrated with your happy style. X-D The people who invented those fables sure knew how to impress the audience, when kids hear this kind of stories they never forget them... I'm glad that I used to read a lot of fables as a kid, so I could realize how powerful those stories really are before getting used to see weird stuff all the time on internet.

Haha, true! Though I do have to say, when the story is written it sounds cruel, but not really gruesome. Animals in fables apparantly can 'take off' body parts without any problem. It doesn't get weird until you start trying to picture it. That's why I made the cut of legs look kind of toony, if it was all realistic and bloody it would've been even more ridiculous, ofcourse.

Oh THAT's what this story is about.. i like a good trickster story. :) Nice work as always. :)

sad story but I loive your illustrations:) I hope it leads to you getting more work^^

Awesome!!! :D

Beautifully done and well painted!

Mean ole kabundi!! (lovely artz!)

Hey, that's a neat looking paperweight ya got there :)

This is neat! :D Did you do the colours too? How long did it take you to do the comic?

Yeah, I colored it with watercolors. And I don't remember. Too long :P

I checked, it was two weeks or so.

That's really impressive! I'm simply afraid to touch comics with watercolours because there's a big chance of ruining it and digital is so much easier for me when it comes to comics.

Congrats! Looks great :D

Totally agreeing with the little bio too, getalenteerde indeed

Thats freaken awesome will there ever be an american release or in english?

Sadly not. Though maybe I can make a translation myself sometime and post it here.

That would be cool

Dude, I wish I could compose the way you do.
And line the way you do. @_@
This is crazy....and awesome!

I LOVE seeing old fables like this brought to life!

Creepy fable, but wonderfully brought to life. Really super stuff!