oh comely

We interviewed illustrator Julianna Swaney in Issue 8.

“My mother read to me all the time when I was little and those are some of my best and clearest memories. I was an only child and spent a lot of time playing alone, so I would make up lots of stories by myself. Fairy tales always brought up strange feelings in me, a mixture of fear and comfort. I think I understood the world in a different way when I was little. The strangeness of things like talking animals and endless forests totally made sense to me. I’m trying to capture that feeling I got back then in my drawings, even if the world looks very different to me now.”