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1. PLEASE PLEASE DO NOT POST SPOILERS.
2. Don't be rude toward the artists, their work, or other readers.
3. Disagreements are fine, insults are not.
4. Joking at the fairy tales silly nature is fine, crude jokes and comments are not. This is an all-ages site. Let's keep it that way.
5. Comments can be removed at moderator's discretion.
↓ Transcript
Panel 1: A king and Queen are smiling at each other, holding hands. Narration: There was once a king who had a wife whose beauty had no equal...
Panel 2: The queen looks ill. Narration: Sadly, the queen fell ill.
Panel 3: The queen is in bed, the king at her side. Narration: On her deathbed, in her fear of the king replacing her, she said... Queen: My dearest lord and husband... if you wish to remarry after I die, promise me she will be someone who is as beautiful as I am and who has the same golden hair as mine.
Panel 4: The king is crying at his wife's side. King: I do not wish for a new wife. Please don't leave me. I... I promise... Please... Narration: As soon as the king promised this to her, she closed her eyes forever.
Panel 2: The queen looks ill. Narration: Sadly, the queen fell ill.
Panel 3: The queen is in bed, the king at her side. Narration: On her deathbed, in her fear of the king replacing her, she said... Queen: My dearest lord and husband... if you wish to remarry after I die, promise me she will be someone who is as beautiful as I am and who has the same golden hair as mine.
Panel 4: The king is crying at his wife's side. King: I do not wish for a new wife. Please don't leave me. I... I promise... Please... Narration: As soon as the king promised this to her, she closed her eyes forever.
8O Sad start! I can’t wait to see more!
Well, thats mean of the queen I say >__< Instead of wishing her husband will live on and won't be sad for the rest of his live over the loss, she just makes it even harder by telling him he has to find somebody that measures up to her standards. Doesn't sound like love to me – more like narcissism. I don't know the tale so I'm curoius what will happen next Ö.Ö
Dumbest promise ever =.= The version with the ring (as told by the Storyteller) is at least a bit easier to do.
Love how it looks like a weathered page from an old book.
I’m not familiar with this version, but it sounds like another version of “Donkeyskin” to me…
It is. This version is the German version collected by the Brothers Grimm. “Donkeyskin” was a French version written down by Charles Perrault.
You can see a whole slew of versions here
My own favorites are “Tattercoats” and “Little Catskin.”
For its novelty, I’m rather fond of an Italian version entitled “Wooden Maria”. In that version, the outfit that the princess wears is not made of furs or skins, but of wood. This has two interesting aspects. The suit of wood floats so well that it allows the princess to walk on water, which is how she escapes from her home kingdom. However, it also makes the princess look like an overgrown toy or puppet rather than a beast or a hag (I suppose that makes some sense coming from the same country that gave us Pinocchio).
I love this tale <3 My two favourites versions have to be MossyCoat, apparently a gypsy original that has striking similarities, I think? (I read the version by Phillip Pullman when I was young, first time I'd heard the tale.) and Donkeyskin; Angela Carter's folktale collection has a particularly good one of it.
Oh no, not this one. Frequenters of this site should already know what happens next.
Even though I know what he will do, and what’s going to happen, I can’t help but feel kind of bad for him… But I do like her making him promise, even if it turned out horribly. After all, if her beauty has no equal, she could never be replaced… though she didn’t count on genes. :P
awwww i remember this one from grim’s fairy tale theater
Oh, so the Grimms version had it being the Queen telling him that rather than the King cutting her off. Both parents are to be held responsible then!
Does anyone remember the kid’s storybook “Princess Furball”? It was a favorite of my sister and me for a really long time, and I’m pretty sure it’s this story!
http://www.amazon.com/Princess-Furball-Charlotte-Huck/dp/0688131077/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1328120218&sr=8-1
YES! This is the book I read in 1st grade, it made a fan of this story for YEARS. :)
this would look much cooler without the white blocks left and right. Kinda takes away from its beauty.
What blocks?
Has anyone ever read Deerskin by Robin Mckinley? Crrrrazy retelling
…oh no. I know this story. Please tell me it won’t end that way…?
The art is really beautiful.
OMG IT’S CATSKIN!!!! I love this story! I love it THE BEST! >w<
The version I read was ‘Furball’ and it was my favorite tale.
When I read that last line, I literally went “Ooh-ooh, no, no.” Oh god. Here we go.
This was ALWAYS one of my favorite fairytales, so glad to see you guys doing it! :D
Is he one of those people whose hair turns grey when they’re young?
I love this tale! I saw the french movie just recently. It’s so wonderful that you are doing this one!
… So many spoilers around here. ¬_¬
And here I was thinking the obvious direction to take was necromancy.