Psychologically, I found today’s strip extremely
difficult to draw. Anyone who knows me knows my love for (non-human) animals – the only
creatures I kill are parasites, mosquitoes and houseflies. I procrastinated
with this for days, ever since Cecil’s murder, while more crimes against
non-human creatures kept piling up, while I tried to think of how to present it.
Even when I had the idea clear in my mind, the atrocities visited on these poor
animals made me almost helpless with anger, and reading them and looking over
the photos for aid in the illustrations was highly traumatic.
Today’s strip is dedicated to Cecil, his
brother Jericho, the nameless giraffe murdered by the two-legged beast in Panel
Three, and all other non-human creatures who suffer daily at our hands for no
fault of their own.
Copyright B Purkayastha 2015
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