About the story
Why take the risk of flying when everything you need to survive is on and from the ground?
When the simple act of spreading your wings causes you pain, how could you possibly think about sustaining your whole body in the air?
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In a light-fantasy-based area in the countryside of Japan, you can find a bright yellow spot between mountains where a bird-people family of farmers live. One of these creatures, Akane, often daydreams about flying away, until her whole body snaps in pain as she stretches, reminding her of her stunted wings.
This is a mental and physical journey of this ordinary bird-girl.
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[This comic is rated PG-13 for language, trauma, violence and blood.]
About the author
I’m Amanda Lago (a.k.a Alago) and I’m a Brazilian storyteller artist. I enjoy the emotional, self-knowledge and thoughtful type of stories but also the cute ones, with a spice of terrible-uncle-jokes type of humor.
Stunted Wings is my first (proper) authorial story that I came up with in mid-2021, as some sort of “training” comic story before I go deeper into my most complex one, The Void Spectrum. I usually start projects even when I know I’m not ready, to figure out as I go, but this time I deeply felt I couldn’t start from The Void Spectrum. Then, as lots of my ideas often start, Stunted Wings came to me during a long shower and it just felt right to start from it, even though I had already spent lots and lots of time trying to figure The Void Spectrum out by hitting my head against the wall over and over.