#paperugo

One day a friend said to me “you have a gift for finding really weird stuff”. I wonder why it took so long for me to find about this creepy comic called “PaperUgo”. It started as a drawing by https://batawp.deviantart.com/ and it ended as a comic series. Well, the first comic follow the story of Fethry’s “actor”, Paperugo, who suffers from severe depression. (You can buy it here.)

The art is creepy, dark and haunting. I’m intrigued by what motivated the authors to choose Fethry... Maybe to create a contrast between the happy character and the depression? Or maybe to say that anyone can be depressed inside? 

I’m wondering what the heck Fethry has in his characterization that makes him so relatable to people that... Err, aren’t quite in their right minds...?

Click on keep reading to see the rest of the images, beware that some contain a cartoon penis...

Paperi per parlar di problemi.

Con PaperUgo hanno affrontato il tema della depressione e del senso di inadeguatezza, Con PaperPaolo hanno parlato della pedofilia, dell’abuso casalingo e della cieca accettazione. Debolezze e atrocità umane filtrate da animali antropomorfi deformi e malati, che tanto ricordano quelli di un famoso universo fumettistico patinato, dove però non c’è posto per la triste…