One of my favorite comics/graphic novels of recent history is "Monstress," a fantasy-horror series by artist Sana Takeda and writer Marjorie Liu. The art is exquisite, a mix of steampunk and Asian anime. The story is about a brutalized refugee girl in a fantasy world where two forms of humanoids exist in constant conflict. One form is conventionally human, but the other is an anthropomorphic mix of animal and human. The girl is of the animal mix but she looks human...until a totally non-human Elder Thing takes refuge in a different dimension that includes the heroine's own body. Sana Takeda has somehow managed to make a horrendous creature sympathetic. Well, I will never attain Takeda's ability and achievement but I can imitate her monsters. Here's the Tiny Monster for early June.
Marker, tech pen, Photoshop digital inking, 4" x 4 1/2", June 2, 2020.
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Interesting, almost Cthulhu-ish.
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