Sunday, February 5, 2012

Breaking News

I've just signed a contract with Sky Pony Press, an imprint of Sky Horse Publishing, New York, for my very first work of fiction, a graphic novel to be published in the Amercian Fall, so probably November this year. Needless to say I am very excited about this project where I get to write and illustrate my own story.  Sky Pony have said I can show the cover when it is designed (in the process right now). So stay tuned...



Until I can give a sneek peak of the cover you'll have to make do with a drawing I did late last year inspired by a book I bought on the works of Leonora Carrington. Leonora became linked with the Surrealists before the Second World War. She and Max Ernst shacked up together for a while. Leonora got separated from Max in the turmoil of the beginning of the war and she fled to Mexico.

In Mexico Leonora met Remedios Varo, a Spanish woman painter and together they experimented with their art. More can be read about both these women in a book called Women Artists and the Surrealist Movement.




3 comments:

Ren said...

Congratulations Fiona! Your other books are so cool, this one will surely be super cool too. Can't wait to get a copy. Well done, YOU!!

RocketKnit said...

That is an outstanding drawing. I like all of the drawings you have posted but that's a standout :-)

Beth said...

Congratulations, Fiona! You go, girl!

Beth