Anu-Anulan & Yir's Daughter

February 15, 2011 12:35 AM

Emily Carroll (previously and previouslier) has released a sweet new comic for Valentine's Day: Anu-Anulan & Yir's Daughter.
posted by overglow (12 comments total)

I would buy her books. Why aren't these books I can buy and read to my kids?
posted by From Bklyn at 2:06 AM on February 15, 2011 [1 favorite]

Yes indeed! This would be so wonderful laid out in a picture book, thick pages to turn over and over again as a favorite bedtime story!
posted by cometwendy at 3:39 AM on February 15, 2011

I love the classic mythologies - sweet tales of how the gods were total jerks to one another, and how that caused most of the observable world to come into being.
posted by FatherDagon at 4:49 AM on February 15, 2011

This was indeed sweet and I would totally buy a picture book with thick pages.
posted by infini at 5:25 AM on February 15, 2011

Lovely.
posted by ocherdraco at 5:53 AM on February 15, 2011

That was beautiful. Thank you, overglow. eponysterical?
posted by Alnedra at 5:59 AM on February 15, 2011 [1 favorite]

That was a cute way to start the morning. Thanks.
posted by thsmchnekllsfascists at 6:25 AM on February 15, 2011

I liked this story! So sweet.
posted by Pallas Athena at 6:26 AM on February 15, 2011

That was great!
posted by lekvar at 12:30 PM on February 15, 2011

So wonderful. Up until the ending, I thought it was a real folktale, and even then I would have believed it was based on one.
posted by Countess Elena at 6:01 PM on February 15, 2011

Yeah, the actual happy ending is the only thing that gives it away as a modern story, and not a traditional folktale :)

I love her illustrations so much. So precise in some ways and so loose in others.
posted by harriet vane at 10:34 PM on February 15, 2011

I would buy her books. Why aren't these books I can buy and read to my kids?

Perhaps it's best they aren't, because they would scar your children for life. "His Face All Red"... yikes.
posted by Solon and Thanks at 9:41 PM on February 28, 2011