Michel Ocelot's "Kirikou and the Wild Beasts"

Kirikou and the Wild Beasts is the 2005 followup to Ocelot's 1998 Kirikou and the Sorceress. This  anthology of stories takes place within the Kirikou and the Sorceress timeline. Each episodes narrates Kirikou's ways of circumventing the Sorceress' oppressive tactics, or how the infant hero creatively manages human conflicts with wildlife.

Waterfall

Sorceress' House

Kirikou rides Giraffe

Nancy Duong's "Scarlet Moon" and "Year of the Cat"

Vietnamese-inspired illustrations by Nancy Duong.

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Julie Dillon's "Breaking Through" and "Planetary Alignment"

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Carol Phillips' "Sacred Pool" and "Turquoise"

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Acaciathorn's "Modern Texcatlipoca" and "The Walls of Jericho"

Raj Ravi Varma's "Rama Conquers Varuna" and "Urashi and Pururava"

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Left: Prince Rama confronts Varuna, Lord of the Oceans. Read this episode from the Ramayana on Wikipedia.

Right: Pururava, a mortal king of the Lunar Dynasty, and Urvashi, a celestial maiden. Read this tale on godandguru.com.

Todd Lockwood's "The Lone Drow" and "Two Swords"

Included in Spectrum 11: The Best In Contemporary Fantastic Art.

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