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Artist August: Vera Brosgol [Art Feature]

By | August 8th, 2014
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Vera Brosgol is a storyboard and concept artist for the stop motion animation studio LAIKA. In terms of comics work, she occasionally does hourly comics on her Twitter account, and she’s done guest comics for Scary Go Round, and… Oh, that’s right! She also did an Eisner-winning comic called Anya’s Ghost.

I hope she’ll do more comics in the future because Anya’s Ghost won me over immediately. Anya Borzakovskaya’s a great character drawn with very few lines, but very expressive lines. I like artwork that’s distilled down like that. That and her pacing is just right for each emotional or comic beat. Anya’s Ghost is an effortless read because of it, and I seem to get sucked in again when I take a peek at the pages. But the stuff she does the best is isolation with little to no dialogue (or at least that’s the stuff I enjoy the most).

Check out more of her work on her website and you can follow her on Twitter.

Anya sketches

Anya Smoking

“Anya’s Ghost” cover

“Anya’s Ghost” pages 6-7
This exchange was when the book swept me off my feet.

Anya’s mother sketches

Anya’s bedroom

Anya Rock

Fat

“Fiona and Cake” #1 cover

From the “Oootopia: An Artgebraic Tribute to Adventure Time” exhibit

“Marceline and the Scream Queens” #3 cover

Bird Ladies 1

Bird Ladies 2

Girl doodle

Another girl doodle

Emily and Kate

Girl in an orange dress

Koko

Dogs

Medusa

Thessaly

Coraline Jones

Mr. Bobo

Meera and Jojen

Game of Thrones Valentine

Star Wars Valentine

Annie

Tandem Bike

Braiding Hair

Strip Poker

Tug of War
I absolutely love the girl on the far right.

In the Kitchen


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Mark Tweedale

Mark writes Haunted Trails, The Harrow County Observer, The Damned Speakeasy, and a bunch of stuff for Mignolaversity. An animator and an eternal Tintin fan, he spends his free time reading comics, listening to film scores, watching far too many video essays, and consuming the finest dark chocolates. You can find him on BlueSky.

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