Espiritu
I’m not a fan of story Disclaimers, but there are two things that I want to say:
1. This was a bedtime story my dad used to tell me, I loved hearing creation myths.
2. Yes, there are crosses in this story, but they do not represent Christianity. It was just the
easiest symbol to use to convey an important spiritual artifact.
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I… really love this. This is lovely.
Man, that means a lot. My dad was pretty excited that I decided to draw this story. He’s going to be so excited to hear that you like it!
I think your cross metaphor is fantastic. I like the way the cross-beam moves from the tip-top of the support beam to the lower region, it’s very brilliant.
Very happy that you posted this.
Thanks man, the cross was my biggest worry~
Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful in every way.
Superb.
Great work!
This was very “mind opening” I’ve always believe in ghosts, spirits, but not so much demons. I’m not a religious person (never was able to wrap my mind around the theory) but it is a good story. It reminds me of a song that said “Sanctus Espiritus” over and over and over again so I had to look it up. It means “Holy Spirit” so his name means Spirit, I’m guessing??
I love this! Your dad is great.
This gave me chills, in a good way of course, that was an awsome story.
Actually, this strikes me as kind of a creepy story to tell a kid. Most parents would like to ease a child’s mind before going to bed. In this case, they are told there are spirits all over trapped between dark and light, and that this is a cursed existence? “So that means ghost stories are true! ‘Night Billy!”And if Espiritu lived so much in fear of angering his God, why would he not forsake his canoe rather than his soul? He makes a choice that going home is more important than his soul, yet he’s supposed to be humble and spiritual man? And since he made the wrong choice ONCE, he’s cursed forever? Seems that the story really says that God is vengeful, and ghosts are plentiful and come to existence through their own stupidity. Strikes me less as a beautiful story than most people perceive it to be.
Beautiful.
Your father is a delightfully honest man. The spiritual see beauty and the cynical like me see a fool who wasted his life on a sandbar for a silly tradition.
OOoh i like this a lot
draw more please!X
I love your art, but… What message is it trying to convey, exactly? The rhetoric in the last three slides confuses me greatly. Spirits? Burning souls? Deference from post-death judgment? It shows oblique references to Pagan, Classical, and Abrahmic religions, but it doesn’t fit into a “New World” religious model. Still, it is told in didactic fashion.
I don’t want to believe that this is a jumble of misunderstood terminology and convoluted ideas for the sake of being a “cute comic strip,” so please, explain to me your thesis.
Thanks
It’s a bedtime story that my dad made up. I asked him ‘Where do Ghosts come from?” and he came up with it on the spot.
I was 5…there’s not much too read into it, haha~
This is lovely! Enjoyed reading it a lot. I’m going to post it on my blog, and then read it again
What a great story, reminds me of some of the campfire tales my grandfather would tell us.
this is a peice of….art work i have been surfing the internet for a while now and this is the best i have seen.
I enjoyed it, though I thought to myself, “Why not burn his loin cloth? Or pull out some hair? Or burn his net?” I understand that these aren’t the point, I just have a bad habit of over-thinking things.
great job! are you from Thailand or somethin;?
This is absolutely great. The story, the art…I’m sure you made your father really happy by doing this.