We are pleased to welcome Brooke Allen, artist of the breakout hit Lumberjanes to the VA Comicon!
Brooke Allen appears at the VA Comicon courtesy of FredCon, operated by Sam Ellis. Stop by Sam’s booth to meet Brooke!
Here’s a description of the amazing book Brooke Allen co-created and illustrates:
Lumberjanes came about as the result of Boom! Studios editor Shannon Watters approaching writer Grace Ellis in the hopes of creating a girl-centric comic series. After settling on a story set at a summer camp, the pair brought in Brooke A. Allen for initial character designs and Noelle Stevenson as a co-writer.[4] The series would be the second published on Boom! Studios’ Boom! Box imprint, which aimed to feature experimental, creator-driven work by writers and artists from outside the mainstream comics industry.[5] A single eight-issue story arc was originally planned, but shortly after the release of the second issue, Boom! Studios announced that Lumberjanes would become an ongoing series.[6]
Overview[edit]
The story is set in and around Miss Quinzella Thiskwin Penniquiqul Thistle Crumpet’s Camp for Hardcore Lady Types, a summer camp whose attendees are known as Lumberjane Scouts. The five scouts of the Roanoke cabin – Jo, April, Molly, Mal and Ripley – witness a mysterious old woman transforming into a bear, and after following her into the woods, encounter a hostile pack of three-eyed supernatural foxes. As more three-eyed creatures start to appear, the girls task themselves with solving the mysteries surrounding the camp.
