All the Cures That Ail Us — Page 14
Indeed, what sort of chaos could an errant fae do in the human world?
I’ve been reading WB Yeats’ great collection of Irish Folk and Fairy Tales (aka Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry), where the answer to that question is, in sum — a lot. The pookas, leprechauns, brownies, and other fair folk can create a lot of problems for humans. (Drunk humans, to be more precise. One might wonder if there is a little projection going on with these tales.)
I draw a lot on these stories from sources like Yeats, Lady Gregory, T. Crofton Croker, etc. to create the fae creatures in this comic. Though taking liberties to tell the story I want, I try to stick to the spirit amoral mischief found in these old tales, while not feeling bound to it. Fetch, for all of his trouble making glee, has a conscience, as do many of the fae he befriends in the Otherworld, running counter to the more traditional types from the folklore, the kind that Terry Pratchett characterized as vain, aloof, and dangerous (a lot like the wealth and ruling classes he distrusted, as it happens.) Those kinds of fairies appear in this comic, too.
But if I go on about this any longer, I risk boring you or interpreting my own work too much, two of the biggest nonlethal sins an artist can commit.
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