Tuesday, September 8, 2015

Paul Davey's "BreakaDawn" and "Do You Dig?"

crowd of people and animalsYoung woman in fantasy landscape Click thumbnails to view images in Paul Davey's deviantart gallery.

Saturday, August 8, 2015

Adryana Putri's "The Legend of Nyai Anteh" and "Matali Mencari Menantu"

Indonesian graphic designer Adryna Putri illustrates the Javanese folktale "Nyai Anteh and the Moon" and the Balinese story "Matali seeks a son-in-law":
Nyai Anteh

Click on thumbnails to view illustrations in artist's gallery.

Wednesday, July 8, 2015

Monday, June 8, 2015

Sohaib Awan's JinnRise

Comic book writer Sohaib Awan combines Middle Eastern mythology with scifi, pitting powerful genies against alien invaders in the JinnRise series.
Jabal and Yunus
JinnRise Issue 7
Haya

Friday, May 8, 2015

Wednesday, April 8, 2015

David Bergen's cover illustrations for The Earthsea Quartet

One of the few Earthsea book cover artists who actually depict Ged and Tehanu as people of color. The author Ursula Le Guin describes Ged as "reddish dark", and the Gontish people in general as red-skinned.
Click thumbnail to view larger image on katongboy.worpress.com Detail of GedDetail of Tehanu

Sunday, March 8, 2015

Michel Ocelot's "Kirikou and the Wild Beasts"

Kirikou and the Wild Beasts is the 2005 followup to Ocelot's 1998 Kirikou and the Sorceress. This  anthology of stories takes place within the Kirikou and the Sorceress timeline. Each episodes narrates Kirikou's ways of circumventing the Sorceress' oppressive tactics, or how the infant hero creatively manages human conflicts with wildlife.


Waterfall
Sorceress' House
Kirikou rides Giraffe