Continuing Visions of Lorelei, a 13-part artistic event that celebrates the recent publication of Lorelei: Sects and the City, a Mature Readers graphic novel that reintroduces the soul-stealing succubus. Today we’ve got a pencil masterpiece by the artist of one of horror’s creepiest comics!
When it came to horror comics in the 1990s, no series was more of a psychological attack on all that’s good and decent in the world than the ode to unrepentant sex and violence called Faust: Love of the Damned (which is making its return this fall). And no artist could ratchet up the gore and sexual deviations to squirm-inducing levels more than Faust co-creator and artist Tim Vigil.
So when I came across his table at a New York convention in 1992, of course I had to request a sketch of Lori from him. 😀
Now, don’t get the wrong impression—despite the lightshow around her hands, Lori’s a succubus, not the Scarlet Witch. If I remember correctly, Vigil got the idea after I showed him a Lori commission that seventies horror artist Tom Sutton had done for me, in which Sutton had drawn Lori using magic to reanimate a corpse. (You’ll find that incredible art reproduced as the frontispiece in Sects and the City.)
Nevertheless, it’s quite a drawing, wouldn’t you say?
