Boy sees bimbo. Boy wishes his girl was that bimbo. Boy is now that bimbo.
I have read this story approximately ten thousand times. So have you.
Here's the thing, though: Prose lives and dies on what it does with a trope. You have to subvert it, add layers, justify the familiar beats with something fresh. But a visual story has a different relationship with the well-worn. The trope is almost beside the point when you're thinking about how the panels move, where the eye goes, how you make a body change feel visceral without a single word of narration.
I'm calling this "Miss Spelled" and I had so much fun making it that I'm going to go ahead and not apologize for it.
The layout was a genuine challenge and I am, frankly, proud of how it came out. Especially the bleed panels, which I'm just learning how to do.
Judge the trope if you must. I say it's a trope for a reason.
(Comic below — click to enlarge!)
This one and a lot of my other illustrations, book covers, and comics are now living on my shiny new DeviantArt page — go follow me over there if you want to see new work as it drops.
xoxo, Paige