#bugville

[atomic-chronoscaph]

Mr. Bug Goes to Town (1941)

[exitsmiling]

Bugville (Hearst's Chicago American, 1901-05-19) - "Latest News From Bugville" - Gus Dirks

[lesserknownwaifus]

Honey Bumblebee from the 1941 Fleischer Studios animated film “Mr. Bug Goes to Town” (also known as “Hoppity Goes to Town” and “Bugville”).

[thatdoodlebug]

a really good dumb duo!

[bugville]

[baxterfilms]

Bugville sketch by newspaper cartoonist Gus Dirks (1879-1902).

[bogleech]

I lost the original post about this but these sketches were for a game concept that was kind of "animal crossing with bugs"

My main idea was your bug village could be either a sunlit flower town or a dingy rotten fungus town but neither was the "good" or "bad" option. Each might even depend on trade with the other.

I thought every possible villager would prefer one town or the other and it’d usually make sense for their species (bees love flower town, flies love trash town) but these weren’t restrictions, just modifiers. Any bug might still have a chance of moving into any type of town, however their personality would vary so like a moth in the flower town might be a pessimistic goth but cheerful and outgoing in the fungus forest.

This wouldn't always mean they're "happier" or "sadder" though. Some villagers might actually be kinda grumpy in their most ideal environment but that’s okay because that's just who they are at their most comfortable, and in their less ideal environment they might not be AS happy but they might stay because they made friends. The whole game would kinda be about how nothing always has to be perfect and there’s no “right way” to be.

The simple round mites, tardigrades etc. would be pets rather than people

The second page was all the ultra-rare gimmick villagers

I thought it'd be cool to have a fantasy slant too where the player character is a dark or light fairy (bottom left) and may also have to fight off "monsters" like frogs or shrews.

[bugville]

(via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rL0ibxvIYsc)

bug puns