Before I read the book I thought it would be about someone's slow descent into madness as they turn into an insect over time.

Reminds me a little bit of the clickers from The Last of Us but without all the fungus sticking out of the face

https://youtu.be/l_dFpKZo54w

I know Ogtha when I see her.

Fasho, nice work it's a keeper!

🎶 FRANZ! FRANZ KAFKA! 🎶

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Really makes me want to throw apples at it

Great style you got there.

I mean, in the story, Gregor is definitely a very large bug. The servant said he looked like a dung beetle. His whole family sees him as a bug, as do strangers, his former boss, etc. It's pretty overt. Apples don't get stuck in human backs either.

Like, I understand the symbolism, and how it is said Kafka was relating how he felt as an outsider at the time.

But the character was a bug in the story.

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Looks like an album cover for a rock opera version...

Amazing book.

The font doesn’t do the painting justice, it looks too amateurish to me, unless it’s intentionally campy. It also somehow makes everything look like an indie music album cover, which is actually a cool thing!

Funny because a guy turns into a bug? I found it incredibly sad and gross.

Dude wakes up as a giant bug and spends a good chunk of the beginning of the book not concerned about that at all, just stressed that he's late for work and focused on getting out of bed and getting to work asap lol. It's kind of silly in that way.

Or all the times he thinks he can convince anyone of anything while going up to them and making bug noises at them. Like him approaching them will elicit anything other than terror or disgust at the human sized bug monster. The ridiculousness of it is funny to me.

But it does get much sadder as it goes on and his state deteriorates. Once his family all have to start working and the three strangers move in, the soul crushing feeling really sets in. That and the apple just left to rot in his back.

May I ask: what did you find funny?

Not an accusation or anything. It's just that I didn't find the book funny, but more than one person I've talked with have. I wonder if I'm missing something. I read it relatively young, so maybe I just don't remember, or the funny parts flew past me. The soulcrush didn't, for some reason, so I remember the book as anything but funny.

100%

Also, it looks like a corridor rather than Gregor's bedroom.

Yes, copied it a while back to preserve it. As you can see from the edges, the paper was not particularly well kept (tucked into a notebook in a cardboard box in the trunk of my car) and was in sorry shape.

And yet everyone illustrates a bug.

Instead of a dude shitting himself in an asylum.

Mostly various older Dungeons & Dragons rulebooks. Love the black & white line art in those.

Alice in chain next cover album

Just read this for the first time a couple days ago. Awesome artwork! Funny and sad little book.

this is so well done

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