Comics

A Court of Thorns and Roses

Just for fun, I made a few comics based on Sarah J. Maas's A Court of Thorns and Roses. The first turned out a lot better than the second, but both were really helpful experiments with longer-form comics, and translating pre-written prose into comic form.

Sarah J. Maas does not have any association with Begonias and Bonedust, though I do enjoy her work.

A comic of the first scene in A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas, where a woman hunts in a winter forest

Nature's Spectrum of Sex

Ink, marker, watercolor

14" x 11"

March 2025

This was for Professor Normandie Luscher Acevedo's Body: An Anthology, a collection of comics exploring the body soon to be published. I wanted to do something that celebrated the wonderful variety of sex (as in differences between male, female, and other) in the animal kingdom in order to fight the idea that queerness is somehow "new" or "unnatural." There are so many animals I couldn't fit here or who fell outside the scope of this tiny comic. Nature is queer as heck, and it's awesome!

Red Riding Hood

For an assignment for my Drawing for Comics class with Professor Frank Cammuso, I did first an 18-panel "traditional" Red Riding Hood, and then a longer, weirder version. This was a lot of fun.

Four-panel comic (page 1). 1) A jupiter-like red planet with four moons and a bubble reading "Blue 5 to Red 13." 2) The viewer zooms into the green moon ("This is Blue 5 calling Red 13"), then 3) an igloo-like structure on the planet ("Come in Red 13."), and finally 4) a short-haired person (Red) in red asleep in a sort of pod bed ("Red, are you there?")

Misc. Comics

More comics from my Drawing for Comics class!

Single-panel cartoon with two dragons at a bar. Caption: "Then I realized: the princess was me, and the only one I'd been keeping captive in that tower was myself."

Comic with facts about William Shakespeare and his works