In 2011, The ’Warp introduced dark-urban-fantasy readers to my novel series The Saga of Pandora Zwieback through “The 13 Days of Pan-demonium”—a celebration of the publication of Blood Feud: The Saga of Pandora Zwieback, Book 1. Well, I figured, why not do the same thing for StarWarp Concepts’ first horror heroine, the succubus Lorelei, and her brand-new Mature Readers graphic novel Lorelei: Sects and the City, which is on sale right now?
Thus, Visions of Lorelei, a 13-part artistic event that will run here on the SWC blog August 1–13. This event, however, is a little different from when I hired artists for the “13 Days of Pan-demonium” promotion, because I already have a collection of Lorelei drawings.
During my more fannish days I used to do what a lot of convention-goers do, if they’ve got the money: pay your favorite artists to do sketches of your favorite comic book characters. In my case, I’d ask them to draw Lorelei. This lasted between 1989—after I’d introduced her in a minicomic that I’d written and drawn—and 1992, when I started making plans for launching StarWarp Concepts and making Lorelei a real comic book, and needed the money to get things done.
Who’s in the lineup? For starters, we’ve got Louis Small Jr. (Vampirella); Uriel Caton (JSA Annual and Pandora’s co-creator); Dave Simons (Ghost Rider); Mark Beachum (Peter Parker: The Spectacular Spider-Man); Frank Thorne (Red Sonja); Tim Vigil (Faust), and Gray Morrow (Zatanna). And then there are the surprise guests you probably would have never expected to see drawing my soul-stealing femme fatale!
Some are rough pencils, some are fully inked; some are in color, some in black and white. But all of them are artworks I’m proud to have in my collection, and I hope you’ll enjoy seeing them.
