Hello everyone, welcome to the first installment of…
CHOCOLATE SPACESHIP.
This blog was created to maintain a level of oversight to the largest project I have ever attempted to undertake. It is a story about a lot of things, as you’ll find out in these ramblings, i’m sure. I have taken inspiration from my favorites: Chuang Tzu, Antione De Saint-Exupery, Richard Adams, Margery Williams and many, many others that I most likely haven’t even realized yet.
It is a tale about a boy, a prince, that must undergo many changes before he realizes what he really is. It’s a tale about death, life, love, uniqueness, the arbitrary universe, dreams, and courage.
The format is a big problem for me. I want there to be a story book element to it, but I can’t just put everything down in prose with simple illustrations. It was originally conceived as a sequential art piece (a comic) but the scope has led me down a different path. The idea I’ve come up with so far is: BOTH. So it will be an alternating form of sequential art and prose, hopefully it will come together nicely and create the feel I want.
Here is the cast of characters:
Hevavahkema (Kema) is the main protagonist, the prince. He is characterized by his angry eyebrows, hat, horns and pointed ears.
Pi Sugnya (Pi) is the Maiden in the story who is missing, for unknown reasons, and shares many traits with Kema.
Hu-tieh is the King of Flowers who plays a role as trickster and mentor.
Dhad’hama is a mysterious scholar in the woods, much of this characters role is taken from Taoist and Confucian models. I think of him as a detached intellectual who knows that he can’t reach his dreams, because he knows too much.
Metulj is the Lionesse, she is sort of an aspect of Kema. She is wild inhuman and magical. She becomes various things throughout the tale, but never shines as brightly as Kema, and this, as you will see, bothers her greatly.
There are various other entities within the tale but those are the main cast for now. This is still a major work in progress.
I’ll post some sketches and such a.s.a.p.
Thanks for reading.
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