#megan kearney batb

[maggins]

sOBS THEY’RE HEREEE

I’d been thinking for a long time to purchase Megan Kearney’s BatB comic adaptation in glorious physical copy, and they arrived today!! 🥰🥹 @batbcomic thank you so much for writing and drawing one of my absolute favorite interpretations of this story~ And if you guys haven’t checked it out yet, you absolutely should give it a read here~ And here you can purchase the physical copies!

[gruvu]

Ever so often I end up rereading this lovely beauty and the beast graphic novel and falling in love with the writing and characters made by @batbcomic all over again. I recommend this story because it really is a lovely adaption of a tale as old as time.

[batbcomic]

What if...?

I'm giving some semi-serious thought to putting BATB into reruns on some of that platforms that didn't exist when I started the comic in (whispers) 2012...

[angstandhappiness]

Nice

Experimenting with digital painting (what the heck am I doing? How do I art?)

Beauty’s storm cloud dress from chapter three of Beauty and The Beast.

[genderfeel]

top 5 batb adaptations :]

finally a good fucking question that only i can answer

la belle et la bete (1946). i put it in the #1 spot because literally everything that came after owes everything to this movie. quite literally most of these i consider adaptions not of the original book but of this movie

beauty and the beast (1991). further proof that only gay people understand batb. one of the greatest musicals of all time

the shape of water (2017). yeah i consider it an adaption dw about it i’m an expert

megan kearney’s beauty and the beast. amazing comic that i will never stfu about even years after its completion AND it’s pulling references from utena of all things. these are all for gay people i pr

beauty and the beast (1987 series) okay yes this show is bad but hear me out. it has my favorite characterization of the beast himself. and it’s ron fucking perlman

[theteaisaddictive]

it’s been years and I’m still thinking about how big-brained it was of megan kearney to have her beauty and beast kiss before he transforms into a human, but also have a Dramatic Wind ruffle beauty’s hair so that they had privacy for their first kiss…… her mind…….

[iamthebricklayer]

WHY AREN‘T PEOPLE FREAKING OUT MORE ABOUT MEGAN KEARNEY’S NEWEST BATB COMIC UPDATES??!

WHERE ARE ALL OF YOOOOOOU??! I NEED FELLOW FANS TO FREAK OUT WITH!!!! THEY LOVE EACH OTHER!! AND BEAUTY KISSED ARGUS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[princesssarisa]

I'd like some more input about my own writing, if it wouldn't be too much trouble.

In my Beauty and the Beast retelling, I've been fleshing out girl-Beast Liriel's backstory from when she was a princess. I've decided that her father, at least, died when she was too young to remember him, and so her main guardian was a single mother figure, whom I've named Katriel. Their relationship was distant at best, though, because Katriel was a real socialite of a princess and didn't have much time for little Liriel, and as the latter became a teenager, they constantly clashed because Liriel was too independent, not social or charming enough, has too much iof a passion for elemental magic, and was too staunchly a lesbian who rejected every wealthy potential husband she was offered. Still, they did love each other, and Liriel wanted Katriel's approval. Yet when (after other plot developments) Liriel turned herself into a beast and was, in turn, cursed never to be able to change back, Katriel banished her into the wilderness. They never met again, as Katriel died long before the main storyline begins.

The question is, should Katriel be Liriel's mother, or her much-older sister? I haven't decided.

Pros of Mother/Cons of Sister

*The original Beast/Prince in Villeneuve’s version of BatB has a widowed mother.

*Conflict between mothers and teenage daughters is older than recorded history and universally relatable – especially between traditionalist mothers and free-spirited, gender non-conforming daughters.

*Likewise, even though there’s no homophobia in the world of this story, conflict between an LGBT+ daughter and her mother who wants to make her more “feminine” and marry her off to a man (in this case for wealth or status) will always feel relevant. Especially because it ends with the mother throwing her daughter out when she realizes she’ll never conform to expectations.

*Shanna (Beauty) also has a widowed mother and has also sometimes felt inadequate in her eyes. (In their case it’s because she’s a sensitive, imaginative girl while her mother is down-to-earth and tough-minded.) She and Liriel could bond over this, while at the same time, learning just how cold and intolerant Katriel was would make her appreciate how loving and accepting her own mother is despite their differences.

*If Katriel is Liriel’s mother, then the shadow of the dead father can add to their conflict. I imagine him as a jerk who cheated on her throughout their brief marriage; in their daughter’s free spirit and stubbornness, she would see too much of him, and she would reject Liriel's desire to marry for love because her own marriage for love went so sour. I also imagine she might resent Liriel for making her unable to remarry, because no royals or noblemen on the marriage market wanted to raise another man’s child.

*An aloof older sister queen/free-spirited younger sister princess pairing might remind people too much of Frozen’s Elsa and Anna, albeit more dysfunctional.

*A rebellious “spare to the throne” who becomes estranged from their dutiful older sibling might feel too much like a female Prince Harry.

*A woman rejecting her daughter for being trapped in the form of an ugly beast would probably be much more appalling and heartbreaking than her rejecting her sister for the same reason.

Pros of Sister/Cons of Mother

*Conflict between sisters, especially between ladylike sisters and gender non-conforming sisters, is just as time honored as mother/daughter conflicts. They’d essentially be like an age-inverted Amy and Jo March, or like Sansa and Arya Stark, albeit if they had no other siblings and one had to raise the other.

*Shanna has two sisters too, and though they’re not mean the way Beauty's sisters traditionally are (and are younger than Shanna instead of older), Shanna still struggles with seeing them as “perfect” compared to herself. That commonality of “perfect” sisters would give her and Liriel something to bond over.

*Megan Kearney’s BatB webcomic has already given the Beast/Prince an abusive single mother in his backstory.

*The traditionalist mother/free-spirited daughter conflict might remind people too much of Elinor and Merida in Brave: especially because they’re royalty, part of their conflict stems from Liriel resisting an arranged marriage, and one of them is eventually turned into an animal.

*The “shadow of the dead father” aspect of their conflict could be expanded into “shadow of the dead parents.” Katriel-as-Liriel's-sister would have more memories of their parents than Liriel does and have been strongly affected by their father’s cheating and their mother’s misery. Hence “Don’t be wild like Dad and don’t throw your life away for passion like Mom.” Their mother could also have died giving birth to Liriel, which would add to Katriel’s resentment.

*I’d probably succeed better in making Katriel complex and not too evil if she were Liriel's sister instead of her mother. I don’t want her to be all bad, but deeply flawed parents are hard to write without demonizing them, because it’s such a triggering subject. We see this again and again when fandoms vilify even mildly flawed parent characters and refuse to see the nuances the author gave them.

*Seeing Liriel's mother throw her out after she’s cursed might be especially triggering for LGBT+ teen readers, even though she’s not thrown out because she’s LGBT+; her sister throwing her out would still hurt, but wouldn’t be triggering in the same way.

I wouldn't mind taking a vote: should Katriel be Liriel's sister, or her mother?

[windsroad]

Robin mckinley’s beauty does a lot to develop the romance but I have to get through all this other stuff I don’t care about as much first

Disney’s batb develops the romance but isn’t very... deep. The best part of the movie is the something there song, specifically the beast’s part.

Disney’s live action batb developed the romance some more, but made the beast a less likable character than before.

But you know what was perfect? Megan Kearney’s batb comic. God bless her. Giving me the content I crave.

[artofelaineho]

I just wanted to thank you for sharing the Beauty and the Beast piece, “Longing”. I’ve loved practically all versions of this fairytale since I was very small; it’s my favorite. I’ve read many different versions, saw the original 1991 movie, saw the Broadway version about four times when it came to different local theatres (including a Broadway tour), bought the Broadway soundtrack, saw the 2017 version, have that soundtrack...Basically, thank you for sharing this piece.

(cont) In “Longing”, I love how you use chiaroscuro and sfumato to show the contrast between light and dark and show the lovely soft shading. The whole piece seems to shimmer, and you can practically *feel* Belle and the Beast’s longing for each other. Thank you for this piece.

I am SO SORRY for not seeing this sooner. Thank you so much for your kind words! I’m mostly on Instagram these days, so check me out there instead: http://instagram.com/artofelaineho

I’m happy to see another BatB fan, haha! McKinley’s Beauty still takes the top spot in my heart, but I’m also a big admirer of Megan Kearney’s Beauty and the Beast webcomic. 

Also worth mentioning I’m doing a BatB retelling of my own: The Tempest and the Fire! I’ve been posting illustrations with excerpts every 3 weeks over on tempestandthefire.com! :D

(It’s also interesting to note that the shimmering effect you mentioned Did Not Go Well when I showed my portfolio to an art director. They squinted at it and went “this lighting isn’t realistic”. I thought it was a fair comment - but equally I could have given a dozen valid rebuttals. Anyway I didn’t stop doing it because I liked the effect, so I’m glad someone else likes it too!)

[maggins]

So, uh, I just read all of that Beauty and the Beast webcomic because of your reblog. Possibly a mistake as I'm now in tears, but thanks for the recommendation. It was lovely

ANON THAT WAS FAST OMFG 🙀

but really tho, I’m so happy to know you enjoyed it!! It really is one of my favorite webcomics and adaptations of BatB, and I wish more people would know about it 🥹🥹🥹🥰

And to anyone reading this, I am once again asking that you consider reading it 👀👀👀

[hibiscus-boy]

i know i’m not completely heartless for cishet romance yet since i was rooting for argus and beauty in megan kearney’s batb and rudjek and arrah in kingdom of souls just days ago, but seriously i’m just reading this rn and i feel nothing.  idk, it’s unlikely see a relationship at this stage where both parties are currently antagonizing each other, one for a very valid reason.  (yk being kidnapped and taken to another world by force makes one rightfully very suspicious and antagonistic.)  with the power imbalance and where they are in the story, it’s way too early for them to be getting attracted to each other yet and so i’m reading this bits and i’m just like.  ok

i also hate that i’m rolling my eyes over a girl being defiant and repeatedly attempting to escape, too.  it’s not written well, or in a way that i empathize with her.  (i’m not feeling a lot of empathy for most of the characters in this story lmao!)  i have more thoughts on this, but can’t parse them out yet.

at the same time i’m wondering where this is going (this book is over 400 pages long) and how this is gonna end.  and it’s starting to get better, we’re getting some trust being formed between the two (i know i was complaining just now, but we are getting somewhere) and more information about the current state of the kingdom.  more people too.

god this is a mess of an update.  it is starting to get better though so let’s keep goinggggg

[batbcomic]

Oh, did I not mention that bit?

All of the kind notes got me missing these poor kids. Thanks guys, I love you!!

[megankearney]

Happy Winter, Dear Readers!

It's been an interesting few months! While we will be having a short epilogue, the main story of Beauty and The Beast has, after seven years, come to a conclusion. So many of you have been with me from the start, and it's been a pleasure to take this journey with you.

I'm very happy to announce that I've found representation with Susan Graham (@grahamophones on Twitter) of Einstein Literary Management. Susan will be handling the sales of my book-length projects, while I retain power over my illustration and shorter or serialized works (That means you can still invite me to contribute to your anthology, or hire me to draw your dog!). I am hoping this will lead to some exciting new stories in the future!  

In general news, with tumblr's future looking uncertain, you can always find me on twitter (@spookymeggie).  You can also subscribe to an unobtrusive and occasional mailing list for book updates. I hope you're enjoying this chilly season, and staying warm with a nice cup of tea and perhaps a cozy candle or two. Take time for yourself, and I'll see you all in the funny pages! Cheers! Megan

[demoisellebeauty]

((omg I can’t believe the Megan Kearney BATB webcomic is actually finished my heart is simultaneously full and empty))

[astudyinchocolate]

BatB fic rec time!

Throwing some recs out there for some great Adelle fics I’ve read lately!

Ever As Before: a fic I saw a few months back, but decided it sounded too sad for me to read. However, the writer throws in some great twists that kept me reading and made me fall in love with the story. Adam is great in here. Also really fascinating to see how the author writes the original characters, particularly Chip, approximately 15 years after the curse ends. Everyone’s very in-character.

In the Great Wide Somewhere: fascinating premise, excellent writing. Cute Adelle moments. Really curious to see where this one goes!

And while it’s not set in the Disney BatB universe, I’ve been loving Megan Kearney’s Beauty and the Beast webcomic (though it really feels like more of a graphic novel). It’s an awesome adaptation of the original fairy tale. I’ve devoured all of it in just a few days, and the artist updates it regularly! Her tumblr is here.