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Chapter 1, The Frog in the Pond - part 2

Trungles

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Early publishing! I'll be out of town next week, so I wanted to get this part of the story out a few days earlier. Over the next two weeks, you're getting this origin/context story, but rest easy! I haven't abandoned the ballpoint pen drawings or anything. Things come up, though. ANYWAY, for those of you who may not know (all of you, probably, since I'm new to Tapastic), I'm a huge folklore nerd, and I spent a lot of time in school studying and analyzing narrative tropes of fairy stories, and I can tell you that The Princess and the Frog (or "Iron Heinrich," as the story is sometimes named for a remarkably bizarre character who shows up at the end in some versions) is definitely one of the weirder fairy stories for its creepy, kind of malevolent take on relationships between fathers and daughters. And yes, I'm considering it one of the weirder ones even among stories about talking severed horse's heads and junk.

After finding out his quite young daughter allegedly rescinded her promise to kiss a frog in a pond, the king more or less encourages her to take the frog with her to bed. This part of the story is based on that disquieting segment of the story in which the king makes some practically-oriented, highly dubious parenting decisions to teach his daughter a vague theoretical lesson. It's creepy!

Anyway, thank you for following Tamarind! It's very kind of you to keep up with this thing I'm making. I really like bumming my way through this whole comicking thing, and it's still amazing to me that people follow my long, slow stories. Since I work in a nursery school, it's sort of renewed my interests in children's stories with very, very dark pasts. I might make a separate comic for short stories here... Stay tuned!

#trungles #Princess #Comic #magic #witches #The_Frog_Prince #iron_heinrich

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