reimenaashelyee:I am excited to show yall the cover for my newest kids adventure GN, MY AUNT IS A MO
reimenaashelyee:I am excited to show yall the cover for my newest kids adventure GN, MY AUNT IS A MONSTER!! (Alt text for the art attached will be in the reblogs)OFFICIAL PREORDER PAGENon-US readers can preorder the book at their local library or bookstore!Here’s a summary of what the comic’s about:- A bookish girl with a love for adventure stories who’s never had adventure in her life, but dreams of one!- Comes to know her mysterious and fashionable aunty, Lady Whimsy, retired world’s greatest adventurer!- But Whimsy has a secret! It’s in the title and cover! She’s literally a monster! But nobody in existence except Whimsy’s assistant/nanny knows this, and Whimsy has been in hiding from the world for almost a decade, presumed to be dead. - One day she finds out from the news that her nemesis, a certain pineapple-loving professor, has discovered a lost kingdom… the kingdom that Whimsy was last reported to be seeking for!- Whimsy is forced to go out of her way to prevent her nemesis from digging deeper into the kingdom. And she brings Safia along! A lovely trip halfway around the world begins!- Adventuring is not all fun and games though. There are always going to be bad guys! And turns out, it’s not just Whimsy who’s after the professor. Agents from the Bureau of Suspicious Intent are also hot on their trail!- Safia unknowingly befriends an agent. Wuh-oh!- Now how do all of these mix together into a thrilling, strange and wondrous adventure tale? Well, you gotta get your copy!!It comes out September 13, 2022!!!We’re also prepping a transcript for the graphic novel to be released at a later time. (ideally on the same day as release, but I as the author can’t promise exact dates given traditional publishing etc) Here are the image descriptions for all the art attached:Image 1: Cover of the graphic novel My Aunt is a Monster. A blind brown girl with long curly hair, red glasses, white-and-red striped shirt, green pants and a white cane speaks to her audio recording device. She is walking together with her aunt, a tall, fashionable blue-furred monster with a dog’s snout and pink nose, yellow eyes, black claws, green braids and a giant sun hat that partially obscures her face. The title text is whimsically drawn. The background is solid yellow.The next two images are double pages of the graphic novel.Image 2: Aunty Whimsy dusts her collection of souvenirs with her long furry tail. “Afterall,” she says, “I collect all these strange and wondrous trinkets from all over the world so they can be admired by children. Like you!”Safia is amazed. She can’t contain her excitement. She has a cool aunt! An aunt who travels! An aunt who has seen most, if not, all of the world!“Really?!” Safia squeals. “So are you… are you an adventurer?”Whimsy winks. “Yes, really! And I am proud to say, I was once the world’s greatest adventurer!”In Whimsy’s mind, she looks back at years and years of spelunking at sea, in the air, just any place you can imagine. Back then, Whimsy had a different body. Not very much different from Safia’s.“I used to travel to all kinds of far-flung places and indulged in all sorts far-fetched things all the time for the magazine I used to write!”“Wooah You’re so cool!” Safia says.Whimsy laughs a sparkling laugh. “Haha! Indeed! I’m now retired, but I certainly lived quite a life!”She gets on her knees.“Alright Safia. Open your hands.”Image 3: A silent double page. It’s an elaborate illustration of Whimsy, her nanny Miss Cathryn (a white, powerfully-built old woman with yellow eyes and short grey hair) and Safia as they sashay through a series of experiences. A lion dance, a spice market, a satay stand with the chef fanning the flames with a fan, a culinary feast of kuih, fried fish with rice and sambal and eggs, soft-boiled and boiled, coffee and ais kacang, a gloriously painted and sculpted Indian temple, and all sorts of tropical flowers. These are all experiences from Malaysia by the way. -- source link