Artist post- Emily Carroll

Emily Carroll studied animation at Sheridan College. After she graduated, she moved to Vancouver, British Columbia to work in the television animation industry. She maintains several different online galleries to showcase work inspired by video games, books, and fashion. She additionally has her own website, which has her original comics and miscellaneous illustrations.

From "Gaming Flickr Set"

"My Horns Shimmer Red" Comic

I first fell in love with her comics, which she uses to tell all sorts of stories. A few of them are strange and disjointed dream journals. Others, like Anu-Anulan and Yir's Daughter have a folktale or mythological feel to them. A good deal of them are also pretty macabre- Out of Skin ranks as one of my favorites, but can also give me a good case of the willies. 

Panel from "Out of Skin"

This aside, I think her comics are fantastic. She has a very distinct style, and the stories she tells are compelling (despite being a bit scary). Additionally, many of her comics are also done in a way that they can only be fully enjoyed by looking at them on the web. "The Three Snake Leaves" and "Margot's Room" involve pointing and clicking different parts of the comic to progress through the story. In "The Prince and the Sea", Carroll takes advantage of having to scroll through a web-page by using color to guide the viewer's eye through the page. 

The digital techniques she uses in her work are not very complicated, but I think Carroll uses them in combination with her artistic skill and storytelling very expertly. The changing panels and the interactive nature of her comics add to the stories without being overdone. They make her comics webcomics, instead of just being comics you can find on the web.

The interactive first panel of "Margot's Room"