Raven's Children

Raven's Children is now being distributed by Ester Republic Press. It's available at book and comic stores within the state of Alaska, and can be ordered from Ester Republic Press's website here.

"A complex, well-realized world."
-Colleen Doran, writer/artist, A Distant Soil

"Layla Lawlor is going places."
-Carla Speed McNeil, writer/artist, Finder

"Raven's Children has all the hallmarks of becoming a top-notch epic."
-Katherine Keller, Sequential Tart

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Raven's Children Trade Paperback #1 (2002)

144 pages, collecting issues #1-5. This is how it all began ... a sprawling tale of love and hate, war and revenge, myth and magic, gods and trickster spirits. Jained, the escaped slave, sees his world spiral into madness around him. Can he survive with his skin, and, more importantly, his soul intact?

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Raven's Children Trade Paperback #2 (2005)

200 pages, collecting issues #6-13. Ronin, the local governor of the Tolshay Kahn Empire, embodies all that cynical ex-slave Jained detests ... yet, somehow, the two have become friends. Now Jained finds himself torn between his conflicting desires for redemption and revenge. Meanwhile, the northern tribes and the Tolshay Kahn spiral inexorably towards war.

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Raven's Children began in 2000 as an oversized, Xeroxed minicomic. The first story arc is currently wrapped up and the comic is on hiatus. Contact me or check the Livejournal for up-to-date information.