This illustration is based on a smaller, black and white drawing I completed for a story by Andrew Kaye in the hilarious SF anthology, Unidentified Funny Objects, Volume 4. I liked the cartoon enough that I decided to develop it into a larger piece. It was my original goal to make it look like the cover of a vintage sci-fi comic I would want to read. But after a while, I wanted to tell the story behind the goth girl, so I wrote a five hundred word short and worked it into the art...a bit of a challenge, given the space constraints. I ended up editing out a sentence or two to make it fit. (I also added voices to the shadows) The complete text of the story can be found in my Book of Nightmares.

Prints of this artwork are available for purchase in the gift shop.