𖦹 about
lovely the zine
lovely is a zine set up by artez students and alumni abel van dijk and vera wolsink. for the 3rd edition, they asked me to create 2 spreads around the theme of ‘speaking english’. i made this short 4 page comic about a woman who is in love with another woman, but she is from middle-ages england. she speaks one of the earliest recorded variations on the language we now call english. it is based on the visuality of beowulf, one of the oldest texts in old english. the two women feel a connection, but because of the differences in their english, they cannot communicate. the modern woman reminisces in a bar, and wonders whether the breakup was mutual.