Henry Darger

Sandra Grippi - Del Toro comic

Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Elizabeth Siddal sketches

The artist I chose is Dante Gabriel Rossetti, especially focusing on his relationship with his wife, Elizabeth Siddal. They dated on and off for 10 years, married, had a stillborn daughter, than Elizabeth either accidentally overdosed on laudanum (morphine) or killed herself. Rossetti buried her with the only copies of all his poetry, then exhumed her to retrieve them 7 years later. Allegedly, her hair continued to grow after she was buried.

Artist Guillermo Del Toro

This is a very rough sketch of my comic using Guillermo Del Toro's style. I used a tragic love story told about a castle in my parent's home town in Italy for the concept and gave it a ghostly edge. The love story is about a baroness who is married but finds lover, she is then killed by her father and her lover killed by her husband. It is said that her bloody handprint is still on a wall in the castle today.
I wanted to give it the same feeling as a film directed by Del Toro by making the ghost seem ominous at first and then helpful/ lifesaving in the end.



Begins with a man and woman on a date in some restaurant.
Zoom in on woman, "I'm really having a nice ti-"
Man, "You wanna get out of here?"
Woman confused,"Where would we go?"
Man,"I know a secret entrance to a castle not to far from here, come on let's go."
Woman finishes her wine,"um Ok."

Go to outside castle,
W,"It's just like how I remember it."
M,"you've been here before?"
Go to flashback of girl with a group of school kids.
W,"yeah when I was younger. It was a field trip for a history class I think. They told us there was a baroness who was killed by her father after she took a lover."
Panel shows camera lens with mysterious figure. Flashback over.
M, "Are you coming?"
W, snaps out of flashback,"oh, yeah."

Woman alone in castle entrance, "Hey where'd you go?"
Goes up staircase and enters castle. Inside finds bloody handprint on wall, looks up and sees a ghostly woman walking down the hall.
Woman follows to a window where ghost disappears. She turns around to see the man holding a  piece of wood about to strike her. She ducks. As he lunges forward a pair of red hands push him out the window over the woman. Woman jumps up and looks out window then turns around to see the same ghostly woman walking away down the hall.

Audris Park_4 pg story layout

The story of Glen Keane and how he came to create his short animated film "Duet". 

4 pages layout - Vivien Zhang

                    This story is about Lin Fengmian take the cruises from Shanghai to Paris to study art.

4 pg Vince Story

I originally wanted to interview an artist I know and illustrate the story in his words, but he wasn't able to in time for the layout. So instead I illustrated the theoretical "real" story of how Vincent VanGogh lost his ear in a fight with his friend Paul Gauguin because I think that's interesting.

VV-Excuse me?

PG-I'm going back to Paris. I'm leaving you. Call it what you will, but I'm going going gone...

VV-Paul, can we talk about this later? My metabolism...

PG-There's noting to talk about, my old friend.

VV-You're not leaving now! We are the artistic community here.

PG-Vince, it... it's not working.
VV-ITS... WORKING
(tries to grab PG's epe)
PG-No you DON'T

PG-Vincent? Oh, shit. Vincent... Your ear..

VV-It's okay... it's... right here. Go.

PG-WHAT?

VV-Get out of here. You're right. This isn't working.

PG-Vincent...

VV-I won't tell. They'll take care of me. I love you old friend. I love...

Prostitute character-Hey, Vince. I was hoping I'd see you around here.

VV-I honestly just need to use your bathroom.

(she faints)

VV-I guess I'll just let myself in?

(bandages ear)

VV-How's that for a painting idea...