Hlootoo's Art

jakewyattriot:

ElfQuest, which was both my first comic book and my first fantasy experience, concluded this month. I’m still catching up on the series, but knowing it’s done made me sentimental and compelled me to do a little fan art.

I found ElfQuest in my nerdy aunt’s closet one afternoon in 1989, and read it well before I had any business doing so. It was sexy and scary and weird and dramatic in ways that were new to me, and every panel was a new and thrilling experience. I read them over and over and hoarded them in a pile under my grandmother’s bed until I was caught and made to read something age-appropriate. But I never forgot Elf-Quest, or how it made me feel.

Wendy Pini was an incredible comics pioneer in the US–she was doing self-published, manga-influenced work about sensitive, bare-chested elf boys and their feelings way back in 1978, and in the year of our lord 2018 she is STILL doing it. She changed the way comics were made, distributed, sold, drawn, and thought about. She pioneered convention cosplay! Wendy! Is! The coolest! I’m grateful for her work. It changed my life. Here’s to the Cutter Kinseeker, blood of Ten Chiefs, and his creators, Wendy and Richard Pini.

-Jake