Exclusive: Read Blue Delliquanti’s Eerie Tibetan Folk Tale from ‘Cautionary Fables: Asia’
This week sees the launch of the Kickstarter to fund the latest of Kel McDonald and Kate Ashwin's Cautionary Fables and Fairy Tales anthologies, featuring folk tales recreated and reimagined by some of the finest independent small press and webcomic cartoonists in the business. After previous volumes focused on tales from Europe and Africa, the third volume is comprised of Asian folk tales from the storytelling traditions of China, India, Japan, Tibet, and beyond, adapted by an impressive roster of creators that includes E.K. Weaver, Carla Speed McNeil, Lucy Bellwood, Terry Blas, and Gene Yang.
The Kickstarter is a third of the way towards its $29,000 goal, and with all the stories already completed and digital copies available from the $5 reward level, Cautionary Fables and Fairy Tales: Asia Edition is a safe bet for anyone who loves great comics or great storytelling. But if you still need convincing, we can whet your appetite with this unsettling Tibetan folk tale from O Human Star creator Blue Delliquanti, debuting exclusively on ComicsAlliance.
Here's the full rundown of the creators featured in the book (with links to their personal sites), and the stories they've adapted for the anthology:
- Kel McDonald - The Legend of Asena
- Kate Ashwin - The Demon With the Matted Hair
- Jose Pimenta - The Story of the Rainbow
- Nicole Chartrand - The Lucky Teapot
- Meredith McClaren - The Three Rhymesters
- Nina Matsumoto - Hoichi the Earless
- Carla Speed McNeil - Two Foxes
- Gene Yang - From the Journal of the Monkey King
- E.K. Weaver - Yuki-Onna
- Jonathon Dalton - Mulan
- Terry Blas - Tamano the Fox Maiden
- Ron Chan - The Flying Ogre
- Blue Delliquanti - Gold Sister, Silver Sister, and Wood Sister
- Shannon Campbell & Molly "Jakface" Nemecek - Ghost Pepper
- Randy Milholland & Andrew Sides - The Tiger, the Brahmin, and the Jackal
- Nilah Magruder - Frog Skin
- Shannon Campbell & Lucy Bellwood - End of the World
- Caitlyn Kurilich - The History of the Spectre Ship
- Cat Farris - The Girl Who Married a Tiger
- Stu Livingston - The Great Flood
The Cautionary Fables & Fairy Tales: Asia Edition Kickstarter runs until January 15 2016.