LYB is what happens when you combine academia, birds in scarves, and the little joys of everyday life.
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ALT Illustrated purple martin with violets
ALT Image: All seven Folktale Week images collected in a single panel. Text: Thank you!! Folktale Week
ALT Image: Returned to full seal form, the selkie leaps away happily into the waves. On shore, the stranger waves goodbye; his footprints fade into the form of a wolf. Text: Then, no matter how far the waves take you, my dear, you'll always be found.
ALT Image: The stranger--a bearded man with shaggy gray hair--embraces the smiling selkie girl with a kiss on the forehead. Text: Wrap yourself so tightly that illusion melts into sinew and skin.
ALT Image: Bright-eyed, the selkie girl sits in a cave at a fireside eating a bowl of steaming soup; a golden-eyed wolf stands guard at the entrance of the cave. Text: Sink down, deep underground, into the root cellar of your soul.
ALT Image: A strongly-built stranger in a blue shirt and fluffy gray cloak, face obscured, cradles the unconscious selkie girl gently in his arms. Text: Sleep first. Recover your strength.
ALT Image: A red-haired selkie girl lies washed up on the shore amidst seaweed and shells, wrapped in the seal's white hooded coat. Text: (The sea is vast, my dear and not always kind.)
ALT Image: Amid heavy rain and crash waves, a towering wave looms over the frightened baby seal. Text: You may meet a storm that stains the seas and swells the deep blue-black of unforgiving ink.
ALT Image: A baby seal floats on the ocean surface, nervously watching a gathering thunderstorm in the distance. Text: One day, my dear, you may find yourself lost.
ALT Image: A beach at ocean's edge with seashells and seaweed. Wolf paw prints prowl on the upper left, and a seal's tale slips into the waves on the lower right. Text: I'm joining Folktale Week! Lost, Ink, Sea, Sleep, Underground, Illusion, Found
ALT Revised poetry comic, blue background with gold border. Two panels: a grinning jack-o'-lantern with moon and autumn leaves, then a golden-eyed silhouette with furry ears and curving tail. Below, paw prints join the leaves leading off-panel. Text: Spooky season again... and the monster waits for me in the mirror. Breaking through...
ALT Promotional Banner--"I'm creating a comic with the Storytelling Collective." #wyfc
ALT Image 2: Project files for in-progress pages of a vector art fantasy bird comic.
ALT Image 1: Full comic: Ashen Cadence, reflecting on a phoenix's life cycle transition.
ALT Image 2: Brainstorming map, exploring ideas around stories, adventure, coming home, grief, and shadows, culminating in an idea around a phoenix in a temple featuring ashes and rebirth.
ALT Image 3: Script for 5-panel comic.
ALT Image 4: Black-and-white vector thumbnails.
ALT Image: Little Yellow Bird draped in a scarf with colorful botanical wings, next to a headshot of the author-illustrator with a similar scarf. Text: Tenured!!
ALT Cover; a pair of goggles and the story title "Breakthrough" by Erin Kathleen Bahl (@lybcomic).
ALT Image 1: Downy woodpecker perched atop ruins against a blue sky. Photo credit: John K. Thorne, "Lindisfarne Priory," 22 February 2014, Flickr, public domain.
ALT Red-bellied woodpecker against bright red maple leaves. Photo credit: Alan Levine, "Delicious Red Maple," 10 October 2016, Flickr, public domain.
ALT Yellow-bellied sapsucker perched on a fungus-laden trunk against an autumnal forest. Photo credit: Bonnie Moreland, "Fall color McKenzie River, Oregon," 3 October 2018, public domain.