Amarillo an exploration in to human story telling

One of the biggest things comics has taught me is how to tell a story. in particular how to tell a story about humanity and people with out actually using humanity or people in it, by putting things and concepts into different settings your able to play around with the narrative it self.

Case in point Amarillo while the choice of the animal actors might be something of a personal tough to the art medium. simply the artist wanting it to be there for the sake of wanting it to be there. that isn't always the case.

take for the case Maus, while it doesn't seem to have anything to do with the narrative it self the power level of cats vs mice with other animals looking on in terror of this internal struggle. it's an intergrle part of making a statement between the intereactions of these different factions.

In amarillo it seems to be something of an abstract, nothing to really do with the narrative but more or less using it as a point to abstract their narrative. the story becomes less about how people look or what they are and more about the interactions between each other.

Amarillo does the same with it's narrative being told via the characters interactions rather than their outward perception of eachother. now some of the characterisation is some what revealed as one reads more into the comics. certain animals affect aspects of each characters personality. the feline characters have a level of regality to them, the hyena character is somewhat jovial