The gentle Likpas

The Little Men 1: Likpato

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Again a story of a martyre child... as Likpato has for mother a scragun. What an infortune... for her, as the gentle likpas are very difficult to martyrise.

This story will lead you in a long journey in the Likpa's country, then in Jamalika, in an hyper-secret base where the future of LikEarth is at stake! With of course a lot of bizarre things...

This story is named that way as a tribute to a french comic I like: «Les Petits Hommes», by Séron, a likpatous world where the characters are small like the Likpas, with also a town and machines at their scale. And also secret bases...

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Table of content

First part: Likpato -- The country of the gentle Likpas -- The great censorship

Second part: Punch-up with the Phallos

Third part: The Great Secret in Jamalika

Epilogue

First part: Likpato

I started this story early, in 2005 or even before. Still by the time we had ADSL or even phone modems, with 800x640 pixels screens, and black and while gif images. Hence the lower quatity. I bettered the images a bit, and colorized them. The quality goes increasing in the continuation.

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For history buffs, here is one of the very first images of the Likpas, dating from 2004! A gif with only 16 colours, and a simplified drawing, to save bandwidth (56Kb modems were still common by the time!). And this image occupied the whole screen! There was nothing else around it, just the borders of Internet Explorer and the navigation arrows! Whereas today you are watching videos of several dozen megabytes...

The images on this page date 2005, and were coloured around 2007.

My first idea was to do a Reiser-style caricature. At first it was fine, but later it turned out to be a very bad choice. First, it connected me with the ideas of Charlie Hebdo. Second, admit that the beautiful vibrations of the colouring serve the story much better, by placing it in a project for the future rather than claims from a dark past. The downside, however, is that I can no longer produce two images a week as in the beginning.