Kilkrazy wrote:I love the art style and the scene where the duck mother and her child got killed made me cry a bit. I'm a big Beatrix Potter fan.
Thanks KK. I can imagine many a Beatrix Potter fan weeping at this story. It’s a bit grim to be fair and not exactly suitable for
BP’s target audience.
It’s a funny thing when you start comparing various anthro-animal fictional worlds. You get into all sorts of distinctions and specifications. People often talk about Burrows & Badgers compared to Redwall, or Mouse Guard, or Wind in the Willows too.
Where in Beatrix Potter the animals wear clothes and walk upright and behave like people, they are still the size of regular animals and humans exist. In B&B the animals are human-sized (though there are still larger and smalller animals) and replace the humans altogether and the role that animals play in our society is largely occupied by insects. There are knights mounted on Beetles.
It comes into the way we build terrain too, the scale of a mouse-house is a small cottage not a flower pot. When I’m drawing, the pink pigeon arriving at the harbour isn’t getting off a floating barrel-boat and walking among the feet of humans like he might be in a Beatrix Potter story, he’s walking alone the folks in the dock with a full sized boat behind and a brick wall, beside which he doesn’t measure to the height of two bricks, but stands as tall as a man.
Anyway, I’m glad you’re enjoying the story, if sadly at times, and hope you continue to be moved by it.