#woodsman as someone somewhat dantean. a permanent resident of the liminal forest

[katabay]

(awolnation voice) RUN

man. alright. let's assemble the thoughts. so last year I posted some jack illustrations, mostly about the giant killing and the beanstalk stuff. on and off since then I've been reading up on jack tales, folklore scholarship, etc. as one does. I also did a full re read of j.g. ballard's novels! that was mostly for myself, tbh, but the drowned giant remains an essential piece of inspiration and reference for this.

since then, I've work shopped the original idea and started hacking away at a plot. the initial idea is mostly the same: jack finds a giant, dead, and the story spirals out of his control. & now there's a king! kings make a semi frequent appearance in jack stories!

onward! jack can be considered a kind of trickster character, other times he's an everyman, but in some stories there's a kind of economic anxiety underneath them that's really fucking compelling.

Perspectives on the Jack Tales and other North American Märchen

and ofc. to tie in my sforza family obsession to this; on power and hunger and it's inescapability

Filelfo in Milan, Diana Robin

& the collage art in the last panel is made up of Head of a King, Column Statue of a King, King Arthur (Hero Tapestries)!