Pandora's Box

A companion to A FAMILIAR INCONVENIENCE (see below). I'd love to do a whole collection of re-examined fairy tales in comic form, but I'm only finding the right ideas gradually.

In The Box

This one ended up being a series of spot illustrations instead of a paneled comic, but it seemed fitting given the subject matter.

Falling Leaves

A weird little comic I made to teach myself to use Clip Studio Paint. Did you know that leaves are reincarnated?? Thats a little fun fact I just made up ;-) 

A  Familiar Inconvenience

Rapunzel pulling her hair in a wagon is an image I've returned to over and over again, you can see another version of it in my portfolio. In 2023 I made this comic to expand on that image.

There Was an Old Woman Tossed Up In a Basket

This is an old nursery rhyme I heard growing up, and I decided to do my own interpretation of it in comic form. I decided to modernize a few of the phrases to make it more kid-friendly, though kept others that I liked as they were... basically, I do what I want 😉. You can see some different versions of the rhyme here. This was a fun project to do when I was experimenting with loosening up my style during quarantine in 2020.

The Lonely Dragon

I was largely ignorant of comics outside of superhero stories and Sunday funnies until college. One of my Illustration classmates loved comics, and as a way to practice he challenged himself to tell an entire story in a single page. I thought it was an interesting exercise and wanted to give it a try myself. The challenge for me was to think of a story that could be told in such a small space. I eventually realized that even if the story wasn't necessarily humorous, the Sunday funnies I read as a kid would help a lot in this exercise--using just a few panels to establish a set up, conflict, and payoff. The Lonely Dragon was the result of that experiment.

The Cottage

The Cottage was my first attempt at a comic. It was for an SVS Learn competition in 2015, and the prompt was "Amanda was disappointed when they got to the cottage because..." 
I'm glad I gave it a try, I've come a long way since this early attempt! I keep it here because I like seeing my progress, and I don't think its that bad!