“I’ve always been fascinated with the idea of beautiful art working together with great stories, even before I really knew what design was. Hyde and The Scarlet Letter, Alexa also enjoyed Japanese work from Junji Ito and CLAMP, citing manga as her biggest pop culture influence. Growing up on Gothic classics such as The Strange Case of Dr. The Los Angeles-based artist is recognized on the internet for her affiliation with horror and Gothic literature and her elegantly terrifying art style rooted in the use of lush backdrops and dark, shadowy visuals, usually accompanying stories either original (Dressed for Death, a series recounting tales of murders and tragedies) or adapted (for her thesis, Alexa illustrated Angela Carter’s The Bloody Chamber anthology). So goes the introduction of illustrator Alexa Sharpe for Espiritu: Visayan Ghost Stories, her online series of short fiction and art. Jump through smoke before you leave the places of the dead, and nail dried palm crosses to the door. So cover mirrors if you’d like, avert your eyes from windows blackened in the dark. They can follow you right into your home. There are ghosts all around us, don’t you know? Those souls that haunt jungled hills, the far corners of a graveyard, may very well show up under a blinking streetlamp in your town.
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