Kochab is a YA wlw fantasy comic about two girls lost in a pile of ruins under the woods, inspired by various myths and fairytales.
The story follows Sonya, a lost skier trying to survive a snowy wilderness and find her way back to her village, and Kyra - a fire spirit trying to fix the home that she’s let fall apart around her.
Sarah Webb is a freelance cartoonist, illustrator, and background artist from Alaska. She currently lives in Los Angeles, California, and studied at MICA in Baltimore, Maryland.
Her work focuses on creating immersive, character-driven narratives and worlds, and is inspired by the otherworldly and odd within everyday life and nature. She is always interested in working on sapphic, fantasy/slice-of-life stories in any format.
The art is FANTASTIC. Honestly some of the best art I’ve seen in a comic, despite the style being inconsistent throughout it. It’s honestly a really beautifully made volume and I’m soo jealous of how talented the artist is. Some improvements I would love to see is for the art style to be more consistent of course as I mentioned. Some pages just use a totally different style of colouring or lineart. Also I lovee creative spreads but I think visually it was a bit hard to understand where the eyes should go. And lastly the story didn’t seem to progress as quickly as i’d hoped. There was a lot of meandering where I wasn’t really sure what was going on.
Overall though it’s beautiful those are just a few things I would love to see worked on in the future.