Introducing: Evil Eye!
Evil Eye is the story of two women, one Muslim and one Jewish, hunting vampires together. Most of the plot details are up in the air right now, and all the art I’ll be posting right now will be pencil sketches until I have time to sit down and do some digital art for it. The content on this blog will consist of my concept sketches/art for the comic, questions about the comic, and if anyone makes fan art of Evil Eye it will be reblogged here! (Please please PLEASE draw fan art and tag this blog in it I’ll love you forever if you do)
I knew when I sat down to come up with ideas for a comic that I wanted to tell a Jewish fantasy story, since I am Jewish and never see my people represented in my favorite genre, fantasy. The idea of them hunting vampires came from a twist on the blood libel myth, (the antisemitic idea that Jews drink blood/put blood in our food) where rather than drinking blood, a Jewish character was actively fighting AGAINST actual blood drinking monsters. Then I thought about how I didn’t want to represent only characters who were like me, and that’s where the theme of Jewish/Muslim solidarity comes into the story. In order to write the Muslim woman correctly, I am collaborating with a few Muslim friends of mine. By the way, if you see something problematic/islamophobic that I say or post, call me out!! The comic won’t be good without an accurate depiction of Muslim women. Thank you for reading this!!
And one last thing. There is no Kickstarter or anywhere to throw money at for this comic. I’m doing this for free. For once, this is a story idea on tumblr that’s not a scam!!
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