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Stone House
🕑 Added 2023-08-24 19:58:12 +0000 UTCThis is a longer, expanded comic based on a comic I made like 6 years ago after I quit BuzzFeed. Maybe you remember it!
In 2017 I rented a car and drove around the French countryside, where I came across dozens of tiny stone shacks dotting the landscape. Most of them were way out in fields, and they were all decrepit and abandoned. They were most likely used in the past by field workers or sheep herders, but now they stood empty and forgotten.
I explored a few of them and couldnβt stop thinking about the people who used them ages ago, and what kind of lives they led. I thought about someone coming to stay in one of these huts and performing some sort of secret ritual. Maybe lots of people have done the same ritual before...
Comments
Isa
Oooo the split day/night page is gorgeous
Rose Lafeuille
To be fair, they're kind of everywhere
A Jupiter
this reminds me of the ending of Vivarium
Clare Follmann
Oo can someone tell me where in the French countryside? I'm going to France soon and would love to find some to explore..and maybe leave some fingernails buried in the dirt ;)
Denny O
This is gorgeous! Thereβs a new Salad Fingers episode that follows a similar story
Flufflestan
Might not want to, just the cycle of life and accepting her time. Like when people are ready to have kids. Kind of the same thing π π€£
Giulia Carvelli
I'm guessing because she's a newborn, and newborn are bald? lol
Goddess Anya
Why'd she stay bald at the end? π€£
marge
But why does she wants to grow old and die?
wowwie
I thought I had read something like this from you before! Beautiful creation.
CandyCane Benedict
This was amazing!
Kara
Damn wish my hair looked that good π
doodlejule
I am aesthetically obsessed with how you draw hands, in every comic I could just look at people's hands for minutes before moving on to the next panel. Wonderful work :)
Kyle Michel Sullivan
Moments like this are what make you a great storyteller.
Kappathefish
This reminds me of a short manga I read called Mugen Tengoku with a similar (and yet still very different) premise. I'd highly recommend it!
Pizzacake Comics
F*k those filmmakers who obviously tried to steal your story. You're amazing and so glad you do what you do
Cassie Greeley
A new supreme will rise.
jΓΊlia bozzino
Sweet
Jin N Tonic
your mind is so creative!
Henry Oliver
Yeah! That was wild to see; often, because of the fact of simultaneous invention in art, it's almost impossible to prove when people rip ideas, but that film was basically shot for shot. They really couldn't have made it more obvious.
Kim Searle
For the last 6 years I think of this comic every time I break off a fingernail. Gorgeous.
Rhonda
πππππππππππππππππππππaw, yisssss, this is the good shit right here.πππππππππππππππ
Jeffrey
I work with folks who do a lot of hole digging/hole filling (that's what she said), and when they're doing roadwork or runway repair, one of the steps is to basically hit the material with some kind of vibratory tool (for asphalt roads you see rollers for this a lot) to shake out any air pockets and get everything to lay as flat as possible. They even have to do it when pouring concrete.
Brantwijn Serrah
This turned out to be really beautiful. <3
Kyle
This is really great
Cara Kulwicki
Same ...
Gee El
wow the panel with the hands, original reaching down to the clone, like the Creation of Man is subtle but powerful
Andrew Kilcup
So many great Miyazaki references!
Flare TheGunCalamity
oh this is darling <33
Katlin Kerrison
Isnβt this the comic that got ripped off to make a short film? Or was that a different one?
Daniel Carter
Adam, the way youβve extended this story is absolutely beautiful.
PlunderBunny
Removed dirt is less compacted than undisturbed ground. Whenever Iβve done digging work there is always βmoreβ dirt than fits back perfectly in your hole when you didnβt bury anything just because it isnβt compacted anymore, more air, expanded, etc
Reddy
Beautiful!
Armin
So if you dig a big hole, put a pebble in and fill it back up you suddenly have a big mound? In my experience the extra size comes mostly from what you bury and a little from the looser earth... π
Emz
because it's based on the size of the hole that was dug, not based on the object that was buried :)
Armin
Love the story and graphics, then I get hung up on stupid questions like why would there be such a mound after only burying a fingernail clipping?
Ikena
The coloring is amazing! I was mesmerized by the fried egg ππ
Elina Sellgren
I looove those outdoor scenes with the house! The colors, shadows, crispness, atmosphere, everything. I would love a landscape painting like that on my wall!
Maria
I know it's marked "horror", but it didn't hit me like that. It was bittersweet.
Yuutsu
oh yeah! i remember the original version!! used to be one of my fav comic, still is btw! but this version?!! EVEN MORE INTERESTING
Asteria Bates
Perspective. Her feet are closer to the "camera" than the rest of her.
Michele Phelps
Beautiful story!
Hemopheliia
Why her feet so fucking big
Emalee Gissberg
I love that!
Alien_Unicorn13
That was absolutely beautiful!!!!!
Lily Rowan
Came here to say exactly this!
Ansixilus
I think it was all just a few minutes. It seems to me like an iterative immortality thing, creating a new clone of yourself to live on, and then letting your true age catch up to you.
Shanda
That was beautiful.
Lauren
I have wanted the ending to that story for so long! Thank you
Tamara Mendelson
Ooh I do remember the original one, but WOW this one is even more fascinating.
Teela Marie Golden
This makes me think of Little House in the Sea β€οΈ π π‘
Dann Dykas
Wait did she age all at once or did it take years but the other never aged!?
Rodrigo Velazco
What a sweet expansion to an old favorite π₯°
UpstandingGoose
Looking for the horror but just finding a cute immortal witch doing self care. π
Sage Louise
Feels like the birthing of a Witch? In a really cool way obvs
Amelia Ross
That's a Ghibli -level egg right there
Amelia Ross
Same!! Very circle of life/renewal
Chevanne
Exactly my thoughts.
Abrilas
This is so beautiful.
Twirl Yuu
Ahhh I do remember the original! Fantastic work, Adam!
Kelly Broomhall
I sadly don't get this one. Like at all. Sorry :/ totally my problem not yours
dvdanno
Aw this actually kind of felt emotional. So freaking happy you gave this comic an ending.
KVLott
I know they are supposed to be two different people- but I like to think it's the same person- just saying goodbye to her old self, thanking her for getting them this far, and moving on β€οΈ
Kathryn Fox
The backgrounds and the lighting are absolutely gorgeous.
Paul Westover
I'm so impressed with how good you have gotten as an artist from style to composition(!) to color and storytelling! I can't wait to read your new book when it comes out
Nandi
This reminded me of the one about the girl and her mom on the island.
Natalie Burton
This is beautiful. I love it.
Ves
this made me feel things
Kyle Rohen
I really, really love this.
Jeremy Bredeson
Oh my god, this is amazing. I know so very many witches who would lose their shit over this. πππ
SeraphicSiren
I know you tagged it horror, but aside from the slight morbidity, I actually find a lot of beauty and reassurance in it.
Racheal Winson
Probably as simple as "new life"
Marchmain
Ooh I want to do that ritual.
cal
she took it off
cal
what is the significance of the leaf on the tree?
Ronniford
Iβm a lover of the tongue in cheek, π (I was typing what you said, but autocorrect is trying to make me less nasty) lol
Grace 'Gengar' Soria
This is gorgeous. Also, I sense some Ghibli influence in that egg and toast :3
Chad Cloete
As always, beautiful.
Redcloud
I love it
Sarah Miller
I love when you make work with themes involving the circle of life and our participation in it, always hauntingly beautiful
Kev Hamm
What happened to her earring?
Vasquez
Why did no one tell me I can grow my own friends? The betrayal.
Sjmme
Amazing π Horror or wholesome π
TeaJ
Iβm too trained by this author. I read βwh*reticultureβ. Now requesting hottie witch alternates π₯². I apologize in advance.
Dahlton Burke
This is strangely soothing.
Ronniford
Makes me wanna take up horticulture
Sarah D
I know you tagged this horror, but it feels kind of really sweet somehow?
Goobzilla91
I'm so traumatized by this man that I expected this comic to go very differently x) beautiful strip ππ
Ronniford
Love the new addition!!!!
Summer J
oh i remember this one! that got stolen by some indie filmmakers right? i like this new version and expansion
Ashley Mendoza
yesss !!!!!π¦
