For the past few months my classmates and I have been reading wisdom tales. We have even made comics about them. What are wisdom tales you might ask? Wisdom tales are a type of story from ancient times that are from around the world. They use characters to describe a human trait. All wisdom tales have a moral. Actually, many books do too, but wisdom tales really focus on that.
Fire, Water, Truth, And Falsehood is a tale with four characters. I bet you know who. You guessed it, Fire, Water, Truth, and Falsehood. The story starts when the characters find a very big group of cattle for them to eat. Truth thinks everyone should split them equally but Falsehood doesn’t agree, but keeps that to himself for now. So, Fire and Water agree with Truth but Falsehood thought up a little scheme to get all the cattle. He goes to Water and says to kill Fire so Water would have more cattle. Sadly, Fire gets murdered by Water. Then Falsehood goes to Truth and says, “You saw what Water did to our friend. We have to run.” They ran to a nearby mountain to which Water could not follow. Then Falsehood said, “Truth you shall now be my servant because I am more powerful than you.” But Truth stood up to Falsehood and then they fought for ages and ages. Finally they brought it to Wind for him to decide. Wind didn’t know either so he blew across the whole world to ask people. The answer is that they were both strong. Some said False can destroy Truth with a single word. Others said that if Truth is there even like a small candle in the dark he can change all. The moral is that we should always speak up and look for what’s right. Sometimes the Falsehood gets in the way, but not when the Truth is active.
There are so many wisdom tales that I could have chosen from, but I chose Fire, Water, Truth, And Falsehood. Why did I choose it? Well me personally I thought that it was one of the more interesting of the books. I also thought it would be really fun to draw all the characters. My personal favorite of the four definitely had to be Fire so I was kind of bummed out when he died in the third scene. But then again they were all cool to me.
How did I make my comic you might ask? First I started by making every character on sketchbook. I used the layers to move them around every scene I had to make. I was new to the app so I definitely needed some help with some things, but if you aren’t great at drawing on paper I highly recommend sketchbook. It’s pretty easy to figure out and has lots of cool features. For the comic theme of the story I used comic life 3 which gave me speech bubbles and lots of cool different types of pages. So those are two great apps if you want to make a comic.