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Whitechapel Cuckoosby *spoonbard

Cartoons & Comics / Traditional Media / Comics / Mixed Media

Woohoo! Update!

Sorry for the extremely long silence, but I've done next to no personal work whatsoever for the last year or so. I'm sure you're all bored of hearing me say that Freakangels takes up all of my time, but it really does.
So, here's some Freakangels work up close... this is the illustration that will be on the front of the hardcover edition of the second volume which has just been previewed on Freakangels.com

I tried to make this cover as reminiscent as possible of images from The Village of the Damned, the first film adaptation of John Windham's 'Midwich Cuckoos', by which Freakangels is partially inspired.

I must admit to not having read the book until now, but it really rocks! A genuinely subtle and fantastically observed book, all the more horrific for being *just* in the right place on the scale of scientific plausibility... not the ham-tastic horror I'd imagined from the images.

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~J1Star Aug 10, 2011 Professional Digital Artist

It's funny because Freakangels reminded me of a book I had read a long time ago and I couldn't for the life of me think of what it was called... I looked up Midwich Cuckoos to see if that was what it was, but it wasn't so I followed a link to the authors other books.. and found it! I got a very 'Crysalids' vibe from this story. I haven't read the Midwich Cuckoos but I have seen the film and yeah, I can definitely see the influence.

*spoonbard Aug 12, 2011 Professional General Artist

Ah right! Interesting you should say that, since I always thought Freakangels was much more similar to the Crysalids than it was to Midwich Cuckoos, although Warren's never mentioned it when talking about influences.