Carol Phillips' "Sacred Pool" and "Turquoise"

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Acaciathorn's "Modern Texcatlipoca" and "The Walls of Jericho"

Raj Ravi Varma's "Rama Conquers Varuna" and "Urashi and Pururava"

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Left: Prince Rama confronts Varuna, Lord of the Oceans. Read this episode from the Ramayana on Wikipedia.

Right: Pururava, a mortal king of the Lunar Dynasty, and Urvashi, a celestial maiden. Read this tale on godandguru.com.

Todd Lockwood's "The Lone Drow" and "Two Swords"

Included in Spectrum 11: The Best In Contemporary Fantastic Art.

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Charlene Le Scanff 's Cathair Mundi

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Mai El Shoush's "Drawn"

Journalist Mai El Shoush created her own graphic novel "Drawn" in response to the excess of objectified, largely decorative female characters in contemporary comics. El Shoush's heroine Rayann Lawsonia (the binomial name for the henna tree is Lawsonia inermis) receives her superpowers from a mystical henna drawing.

Drawn was released by Jabal Entertainment in 2013.

More info:

• "Drawn" preview and interview with Mai El Shoush on PRI
• "Drawn" on Facebook
• 'I created an Arab comic book heroine'

Jim Pavelec's Ameyanda

Jim Pavelec's illustration of the huntress Ameyanda in Chapter 1: Death, Debt, Doubt of  "Hell or High Water" , a Pathfinder Tale for Paizo's Pathfinder RPG. 

Pintakasi's "The Lam-Ang Experiment"

"The Lam-Ang Experiment" is futuristic science fiction based on the medieval Ilocano epic of Lam-Ang.  This 3-volume graphic novel is written by Michael A.R. Co. and illustrated by artists from the Creative Media and Film Society of the Philippines ("Pintakasi").

Kip Omolade's Expecting

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"Expecting" was selected for Spectrum 11: The Best In Contemporary Fantastic Art.

Brass & Steam Productions' "Pirate Lovers"

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Commissioned by Brass & Steam Productions from Alex Boca.

Michel Ocelot's "Kirikou and the Sorceress"

Kirikou and the Sorceress is a 1998 feature film from director Michel Ocelot. Based loosely on folklore that Ocelot was acquainted with during his childhood sojourn in Guinea,¹ this animated tale opens with the birth of the undersized but extremely precocious Kirikou.

The curious newborn hears from his mother that a powerful sorceress has stopped the community's water supply and annihilated all the men in the village. Upon learning that the his last surviving uncle has set off on a seemingly doomed quest to challenge the witch, the resourceful Kirikou rushes down the road of flame trees to assist his mother's youngest brother...

Karaba the Sorceress

Kirikou's uncle battles
the sorceress's minions

Daxiong's "The Ming Dynasty Emperor" and "The Swordmaster 2"

Detail from The
Ming Dynasty Emperor

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The Swordmaster 2