Earth Interviews - Jon Hardy

 I wanted to do a somewhat comical interview featuring several birds, and ask them questions about the Migratory Bird Treaty Act. It was a really fun project I wrote up all the character designs and made a small script, with several questions that each character answered. The character I created is inspired by the common pheasant. ( I chose  the pheasant for fun, since it’s a bird that isn't protected by the act).

The overall theme of my piece is somewhat cynical.  An interviewer questions a pheasant about the Migratory Bird Treaty Act, but it goes completely out of control. The pheasant is terribly upset because it isn’t one of the birds protected by the MBTA, and thinks it outrageous that he isn’t protected because he doesn’t migrate. In a whirlwind outpouring of emotion, the pheasant gets a grip on things and decides to go out and migrate instead of letting the lack of legal protection get him down.

There are hundreds even thousands of laws out there. Sometimes, like the pheasant in the comic that I drew, we wish that we could bend a law to make it more in our own favor. We may even think spitefully of a law because it benefits someone else and not ourselves. However, in the end, there is usually a good underlying reason for a law to be laid out, even with the (what may seem “flawed”) stipulations, and we just need to accept that.