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For some practice and due to the sheer absurdity of the concept, I made a "quick" comic based on a short story by Stanisław Lem which was published in English as "A Good Shellacking" in The Cyberiad in 1974.

Drawing (almost) every version of Trurl I could find just to make one reference to a song? It's more likely than you think.

The guy in front of everyone is my version of Trurl because wow I really am that selfish smh.

And the guys in the back, from left to right:

1. The og Trurl from the illustrations by Daniel Mróz

2. Trurl from the 1975 short film based on Trurl's machine

3. Trurl (or Trull, as he's called there) from the Cyberiad opera by Krzysztof Meyer

4. Trurl from Perfect Imitation (adaption of The seventh sally, part of the 1988 film Victim of the brain)

5. @zhiks-zelvesu Trurl

6. @kirrys Trurl

7. @mrsheo Trurl

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Wow. 8 Trurls.

my Obsessive Coronavirus Adventure has been to become obsessed with this book, The Cyberiad, a somewhat obscure and very original little novel written in 1965 by Polish author Stanisław Lem about robots and other geeky stuff. I became so enamored with it I started to learn Polish just so I could try to  translate the untranslated chapters into English. (While probably never coming close to how amazing Michael Kandel’s translation is) Lem is also a really underrated author, in my opinion.

this book is a fun world to escape to with all the craziness happening. if my art of it interests you at all, I encourage you to purchase or otherwise appropriate the audiobook, which is narrated by Scott Aiello, who did a great job with his voices. I based my designs on the life he gave the characters, before I saw that they had actual designs drawn by the author… mine are a lot different. :D

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