Jaume Balaguer

El Gron

INFORMATION

This project is an adventure comic serial, enclosed in auto-conclusive albums. It is set in a fictitious primitive era, the Horn Age, a fantasy Pleistocene inhabited by large mammals of the last Ice Age and the early hominids. It is a world full of adventure, action and magic: men almost speak the same language of primeval beasts and ancient gods still walk the earth. The main characters are two neanderthals from a tribe called “the Pelts”, who were cursed by the Gods with a lot of misfortunes. So they were sent in search for the only remedy for all the ills of the clan: the Gron of the God Gorod, an object as fantastic as nonexistent that they never find, but it will take them to live a lot of adventures.

This proposal is for the very first adventure, set in a 64 pages color album, entitled "Pig Nose.” In this story,  the main character meets a lonely witch who accommodates them in his tent in order to stunning them with poisoned food and drink and then offer them as victims to a brutal god of the forest, half man half boar who named "Pig Nose." After the appearance of such a raving beast there is a struggle in which the witch finally becomes the victim, taken into the dark depths of the forest by his beastly captor. But the next day, our main characters discover that the Pig God could offer some clue to his amazing searching mission and they decide to go and find the monster’s lair. There they eventually will find something unexpected and the conclusion of this story full of action and fantasy.