the witching hour | Lauren Beukes

October 1, 2013

Witchling

I have a new short comic out, “Birdie” for DC Vertigo’s The Witching Hour anthology, illustrated by amazing Cape Town artist Gerhard Human. A little witch who scavenges the dumps of a future Cape Town for messages from the dead is dragged into solving a gang murder. Lots of South Africanisms and a call back […]

September 30, 2013

The Sad Tales Of Dead Duck

Jade Klara did a series of illustrations for Dead Duck, the fictional children’s book in The Shining Girls. The Cape Town illustrator has an upcoming exhibition, The Witching Hour, at Salon 91 in Cape Town 16 Oct – 9 Nov, so it seemed like the perfect time to re-post these! Dead Duck is a picture book about a morbidly curious […]