While I was taking Graphic Novel I had found a short but cool comic in the Four Seasons book store in Shepherdstown. The comic was called Anya's Ghost by Vera Brosgol. I hadn't started on the final project yet, but it was already October so the spooky nature of the comic and Halloween was coming up got me thinking of making a ghost story.
Without exposing too much of the comic Anya's Ghost was about a young russian girl struggling with bad self image and being the daughter of an immigrant mother. Anya deals with her problems by acting out and avoidance but her attitude changes when she falls down a old well in the forest. She becomes friends with the ghost of a young girl (Emily) who fell in the well centuries ago. They become fast friends as the ghost helps Anya with her problems, but Emily has a dark secret.
I loved the way they handled the ghost in the story. Emily would stretch and twist her body to fit her needs. Sometimes she would have a whole body, while other times she would have a ghost tail or stretchy arms. I decided that the ghosts in the Haunted Carnaval should also have flexible designs. The Prince of Carnaval experienced a transformation around this time as well, going from having a realistic head to having a very elongated pointed chin and thin stick-like arms that widened at the cuff.
Anya's ghost was a great inspirational piece and really helped fill in the blanks during the planning of my Ghost Story.
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