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feature: meet the non-conforming woc featured in mooncalfe’s comic series ‘shadoweyes’
“In the city of Dranac in the year 200X, aspiring vigilante Scout Montana is knocked unconscious by a brick in her first crimefighting attempt. Upon recovering, she gains the ability to transform into a superhuman blue creature, which she quickly takes advantage of and becomes the antihero ‘Shadoweyes’.”
In her original comic series, ‘Shadoweyes’, transgender visual artist and writer, Sophie Campbell, or Mooncalfe, features a diverse collection of women of color with varying shapes, sizes, sexual orientations, gender identities, and abilities and drenches them in 1980s punk-y goodness. Most impressively, Campbell pays quite a bit of attention to depicting under-represented characteristics with realistic details, like scars, belly rolls, and hair textures. Her trademark use of a fluorescent color palette for her comic series ‘Shadoweyes’ makes it easy to see why she was an uncanny fit to illustrate IDW’s ‘Jem and the Holograms’ comic—which debuted earlier this year.
Check out character illustrations from ‘Shadoweyes’ below. And read it, on Tumblr, for free.
By Erin White, AFROPUNK Contributor
http://mooncalfe.deviantart.com/
http://shadoweyescomic.tumblr.com/page/124
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