Things Lost & Missing

Graphic Novel Sample Art (2024)

Beatrice Wray is a witch who runs a business as a “Finder,” using specialized magic to track down the trickiest of lost objects. Her newest case is to track down a long-lost heirloom, believed to have the power to rescue a family from ruin. With the help of her friends Isra (a cursebreaker) and Winnie (an infuriating and beautiful bookseller) as well as her magpie familiar, she traces her quarry through the city.

From the poor Docks district full of Baba Yaga huts that scurry uphill in a storm, to the luxurious villas of Hightown and the stately and austere Ocean Spirit Temple at the peak, they unearth a story from almost 70 years ago. As they get closer to uncovering not only the solution to their mystery, but also a dangerous secret that has been festering beneath the city itself, Bea finds herself with no choice but to reveal a kind of magic she isn’t supposed to know--raising questions for her friends about just where she’s come from, and what she’s done.

BLOTCH

(2023)

In college, I experienced my first ocular migraine. Never having heard of them, I thought I was going blind, and spiraled pretty intensely! This comic covers that day, which ranks among the worst 3 of my life to this day.

Nothing like spending 60K on a visual arts degree to make you panic about your eyesight!

Routine

(2023)

I drew this as an example for my comics class as we started an introductory project with the prompt “routine.”

I had a great time working alongside my students during the project and actually finishing one my examples.

SHIRO

(2021)

Throughout college and into my early teaching career, I worked as a waitress in a Japanese-French fusion restaurant housed within a “registered” haunted house.

I wish I believed in ghosts, because it seems super fun, but I just kinda don’t—except when I remember this, which I was never able to explain.

As you’ll notice, the last page is an exaggeration. Probably!