We are Moon Knight, 9”x12”
2025
Screen Prints
Screen printing has the most direct connection to comic production. This alignment allows for much panel experimentation and for complexity in color to take focus.
Anniversary in Blue, 9”×12”
2025
Anniversary in Blue
Emulsion, 9” x 12”, 2025
Comic Inspired by Tim Sale and Jeph Loeb’s Spider-Man: Blue. Follows a tradition where Peter leaves a rose on the Brooklyn Bridge where his former girlfriend died. Comic depicts him and his wife consoling in each other.
This work explores narrative without dialogue, to achieve the effect of a somber quietness. To add to this, color is used for a similar purpose, harmonizing the piece’s mood, achieved through five layers.
Line was used as an experimentation as well, with certain panels using conventional comic-making techniques, such as blotting (third panel) and halftones (sixth/seventh panels). This was done as a test, to see both the capabilities of the screen to replicate comic textures, as well as a way to see how these techniques guide the mood and eye of the viewer.
Different extremities of value were experimented with digitally. A lighter scale was decided on to ease the emotional transition to comfort in the final three panels.
Blue sky colored paper was used to add a fifth color layer to the piece, allowing rain/water and skin tones to be colored to further the mood. Final color palette was adjusted to complement the paper, as well as to make the brightness less straining on the eyes.
WE ARE MOON KNIGHT
Emulsion, Reduction, 9”x12”, 2025
Comic inspired by Greg Smallwood and Jeff Lemire’s Moon Knight run. The piece experiments with page layout and panel structure, along with color and mixed media screen printing processes.
Scene depicts Moon Knight being ridiculed by Khonshu, his master. He then rejects this master, instead embracing his own self identity.
Inclusion of reduction and bitrated halftones allowed for experimentation with color, to see how different tones and palettes can impact the emotion in a work. Ink was mixed for the halftones, and reduction was painted in with watercolor, then printed with transparent ink.
Mixed media implementation allowed for more experimentation with shifting colors which is usually difficult with emulsion unless you are using a CMYK process. Poses were shifted from being more aggressive to instead appearing stoic, strengthening the self-realization in the final panel.
