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Fizz — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 14:26:35 -0800

What were you raised by wolves? by Vera Brosgol. Cartoonist Vera Brosgol has posted her startling, wordless mini-comic online. [Previously] [Previously]

By: Aizkolari

Aizkolari — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 14:29:34 -0800

That was cool. Thanks for posting it.

By: Panjandrum

Panjandrum — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 14:30:43 -0800

Being raised by wolves sounds like fun up until the point when you murder your brother for mocking the wall of the your new city, then populate that city by kidnapping the wives of your neighbors. Then again, adult life is always more complicated than we imagined it as children, isn't it?

By: Fizz

Fizz — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 14:30:57 -0800

It was short and perfect. I wish more people would learn this lesson. One need not write endless serials/sequels just because an idea is good. Something self-contained and pure.

By: 2bucksplus

2bucksplus — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 14:35:34 -0800

That's how I feel sometimes and I have two lovely human parents.

By: SageLeVoid

SageLeVoid — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 14:35:44 -0800

Much darker than i expected after reading the first few panels, great stuff.

By: Kevin Street

Kevin Street — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 14:41:07 -0800

Yeah, it's a real story and not a gag strip. Quite something.

By: Old'n'Busted

Old'n'Busted — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 14:41:44 -0800

Okay, so the kid gets eaten by the only family you truly know, and so you leave them and go live with HIS family, who gladly take your weird bitey-ness in and enjoy happy-happy dinner time together? Without any agency coming down on the family and new weird kid like a ton of bricks? Ending was good, however.

By: Admiral Haddock

Admiral Haddock — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 14:41:59 -0800

Brosgol is always great, in my experience. This was a really well conceived and executed piece--like Fizz posted, telling a short disciplined story is a great skill, and Brosgol has that in spades.

By: tumid dahlia

tumid dahlia — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 14:43:34 -0800

Really good, thanks Fizz.

By: edgeways

edgeways — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 14:45:25 -0800

plate-o-beans, Old'n'Busted

By: Wolfdog

Wolfdog — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 14:46:16 -0800

A great find. Thank you for posting it.

By: adamdschneider

adamdschneider — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 14:49:57 -0800

By: rtha

rtha — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 14:58:58 -0800

That was really great. Thank you.

By: martinrebas

martinrebas — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 15:01:30 -0800

Raised by wolves?

By: benito.strauss

benito.strauss — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 15:20:00 -0800

Beautiful. Thanks.

By: eyeballkid

eyeballkid — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 15:25:38 -0800

Very good. Thanks.

By: troll

troll — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 15:26:29 -0800

Interesting take on the undercurrent of savagery in civilization. You can take the person out of the jungle, but you can't take the jungle out of the person, apparently. Sometimes I feel that we have organized too quickly, outpacing our tribal base with disproportionately complex ad-hoc social systems. It would make sense to hit the pause button and retrofit these systems (i.e. change the "rules") to the human creature as understood by the sciences of anthropology, genetics, psychology, sociology, etc. There is a gulf of feasibility between systems premised on idealized behavior (cf. historical utopian failures) and that by which humanity inherently operates. In other words, society works best when it allows people to be people, rather than some unrealistically enlightened species of neo-homonid. Liberal society will only work when can biological divorce the cortex from the reptilian.

By: neuromodulator

neuromodulator — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 15:29:50 -0800

I'm more concerned about the family making only the most cursory search for their eaten son. But they had already found a new kid! So it was a wash.

By: HuronBob

HuronBob — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 15:32:45 -0800

Nice find...thanks....

By: Doleful Creature

Doleful Creature — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 15:33:16 -0800

Very good, very sad, very poignant. Reminds me of a story I once heard on Wiretap about a boy raised by wolves and a boy raised by monkeys (incidentally that was the ONLY episode of Wiretap that didn't suck, in my opinion).

By: immlass

immlass — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 15:37:29 -0800

I'd seen this a while ago and forgotten about it. Thanks for pointing me at it again, and for the previously links to her other work.

By: cmoj

cmoj — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 15:51:10 -0800

What was the kid in the supermarket aisle supposed to be doing? Jerking off? Have I just inadvertently psychoanalyzed myself here?

By: gingerest

gingerest — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 15:56:30 -0800

Supermarket kid pooped.

By: cmoj

cmoj — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 15:57:38 -0800

Is this a common problem?

By: shakespeherian

shakespeherian — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 16:03:42 -0800

This is fantastic.

By: MCMikeNamara

MCMikeNamara — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 16:13:23 -0800

By: Fizz

Fizz — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 16:17:21 -0800

Supermarket kid pooped Name of my new funk band.

By: Vindaloo

Vindaloo — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 17:22:01 -0800

Awesome story, thanks for sharing.

By: overeducated_alligator

overeducated_alligator — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 18:23:52 -0800

I loved this, but I also love The Jungle Book, which I wish more people would actually read (the Disney movie has almost nothing to do with the book).

By: UbuRoivas

UbuRoivas — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 23:48:44 -0800

Nice use of the skull & crossbones title.

By: Legomancer

Legomancer — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 06:33:55 -0800

Very nice! Thanks!

By: straight

straight — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 11:45:07 -0800

If I owned a supermarket and you made the kid who gleefully shat in my aisle cry without striking him, you wouldn't have to hand in your apron afterwards unless the promotion I was giving you required you not wear one. It's not clear whether the manager is frowning because he's firing her or frowning because she's handing in her apron and telling him to take this shitty job and shove it.