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The Story of a Mother by Hans Christian Andersen adapted by Peter Madsen
Requirements: CBR Reader, 17 MB.
Overview: A mother has not slept for three days and nights watching over her sick child. When she closes her eyes for just a moment, Death comes and takes her child. The mother rushes into the street and asks a woman, who is Night, which way Death went.

    "Death walks faster than the wind and never returns what he has taken."
    "Tell me which way he went and I will find him!"

Night tells her to go into the forest, but first the mother must sing every lullaby that she has ever sung for her child. In the forest, a thorn bush tells her which way to continue, but only after she has warmed the bush by pressing it to her chest, causing her to bleed. The mother then reaches a lake that carries her across in exchange for her eyes, which she cries out.

The now blind mother reaches the greenhouse where Death cares for the flowers and trees, each one a human life. Here the mother finds the little sick plant that is her child, recognizing it by the sound of its heartbeat. The old woman who helps care for the greenhouse tells her, in exchange for her hair, that when Death comes, she must threaten to rip up the other flowers. Death will then be afraid for he must answer to God; only God decides when the plants are pulled up and planted in the garden of Paradise, where we do not know what happens.

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The Story of a Mother

    Hans Christian Andersen story
    Peter Madsen art, write.
    Ole Lindegrad Henriksen Translatation
    Published by Forlaget Carlsen – Coppenhagen, 2005.
    Scanlation Team: data9724-DCP

        "The Story of a Mother" (Danish: "Historien om en moder") is a story by the Danish poet, travel writer, short story writer, and novelist Hans Christian Andersen (1805-1875). The tale was first published December 1847. The story has been adapted into an animated film.

        The Story of a Mother is a mythical, adult tale about loss: a mental journey through the stages of grief, resistance, despair, mourning and, eventually, acceptance. Psychological realism in the guise of a fairytale. Hans Christian Andersen’s text "The Story of a Mother" was first published in English in a small collection called A Christmas Greeting to my English Friends just after Christmas, 1847. Andersen was very visually oriented. He made drawings on his travels, and of course there’s his beautiful papercuts. The language of his stories is brimming with imagery, and he has been called "the man who painted with his pen". Hans Christian Andersen’s original tale is very short, five and a half pages. In his interpretation, Peter Madsen has taken Hans Andersen’s visions further, and at times he has added new ones. The story is expanded to a format of 64 pages in water colour and gouache, making it possible to elaborate on its atmosphere and deeper psychological and mythical layers, not least its redeeming ending. Peter Madsen has worked on the story and his personal interpretation of it for close to twenty years. A filmed version of The Story of a Mother is available on DVD directed by Peter Madsen, with music by David Firman, recorded by The Danish Broadcasting Corporation’s Radio Sinfonietta. So far, the book has been published in Danish, Norwegian and French, and in an English-language version for the Danish market only.

          "The way he puts the poet’s symbolic words into images is very impressive indeed. The result is both moving and agonising … possibly his best work ever." (From the Danish daily Ekstra Bladet, 5 November, 2004)
          "The end result is a dashingly beautiful homage to Hans Christian Andersen." (From the Norwegian daily Bergens Tidende, 14 November, 2004)

    Note from the scanlator:

      "Hi everyone,

      I hope you will all enjoy this little danish gem of a comic, made by Peter Madsen (the maker of the Valhalla comic), and based on a story by Hans Christian Andersen.
      This comic was drawn/painted in water colour and gouache, making the look quite different from most comics out there, and I hope you will enjoy this unconventional artstyle.

      The reason you have probably never heard of this comic before is that the english release was for the danish market only, in connection with a Hans Christian Andersen celebration week. Feel free to see if you can find the english version for sale somewhere to support the artist. But it will probably be pretty unlikely that you can find it for sale anywhere apart from in Denmark.

      And since the joins in the book was out of my league, a big thanks goes to Greengiant for the help on those.

      So enjoy this comic, and remember that a comic worth reading is a comic worth buying :) ".

        data9724

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