RELATED: The Low, Low Woods: DC Black Label Welcomes Writer Carmen Maria Machado And, with the creeping horror linked to the old mines, an insidious evil may already be festering within the characters as the story continues. Navigating the trials and tribulations of high school and the legacy of the generations of coal mining that left a stain on the community, it is clear that things have taken a turn for the more terrifying, from familiar faces suddenly taking on malevolent appearances to disturbing monstrosities lurking in the eponymous woods at night. Discovering the truth with them and taking back their broken pieces is an empowering journey I’m happy to do with them.Taking place in a former coal town in Pennsylvania in the 1990s, two teenage friends awaken in their local movie theater to discover the world around them feels noticeably darker and more sinister than ever. The girls might have been through a really bad and stigmatizing experience, everything is so vague, and they are kind of lost. It has the good qualities of horror, a genre that I absolutely love, but it also has some other characteristics which are really important to me, both as a creator and as a human being. Was there a particular jumping in point that made you say, “I NEED TO WORK ON THIS!” ?ĭ: The Low, Low Woods is not your average horror book. Was that a decision right from the beginning? Dani, it’s easy to see why you’d want to tackle the art for the book, what Machado has done with the story is so easy to latch onto. Also I got really inspired from Sam Wolfe Connelly’s art who is our wonderful cover artist and I truly appreciate as a creator.ĭC: The Low Low Woods does such a great job of not only being a very entertaining and powerful book on the surface but there are definitely some really great things going on as far as subtext. My art style is already quite dark with heavy splashes of ink so I just unleashed it on the pages -I had some wonderful material to work on and some amazingly dreamy colors from Tamra Bonvillain on top to complete all the visuals of the book. It was helpful so as to get into her brain a bit more and is really interesting because I tend to do the same thing whenever I’m working on new characters and building worlds for a book. Carmen provided the whole team with a visual guide of a collage of pictures and photos she had found on the internet. D: Shudder-To-Think is indeed a strange place and its inhabitants weird and unique characters.
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