Lady Margaret
48 pg, black and grey comic. 18+ for nudity. 8.5x11" book.
Special thanks to Amplify Arts for awarding me the micro grant used to pay for printing!
I started working on this in 2021 and am thrilled to finally release it! There are about 140 copies available and all come signed and numbered.
All the products in this store, including this book, will be available ONLY through March 25th, when the store will close indefinitely.
Lady Margaret is a dense, dreamlike retelling off the folk song of the same name. Words are scant and illustrations do most of the storytelling by drawing on art historical symbolism and the song’s gothic themes of repression, seduction, death, and dreams.
The shifting nature of folktales and the universality of their stories reminds me of the richly illustrated fairytale books I had as a child. Before I could read words I would “read” the pictures, over and over, and tell myself a new story every time. I wanted to draw a story so loaded with visuals that it, like the folksong, could mean different things for different people.
I hope these pictures encourage you to extrapolate wildly, until they become like a mirror reflecting back at you.
