Demeter
Becky Cloonan spills some details about ‘Demeter’
Speaking with Entertainment Weekly about her early involvement with comiXology Submit, the new digital comics platform for independent creators, Becky Cloonan finally reveals details about her new minicomic Demeter, which she teased in January.
“It’s a short story, about 27 pages,” she tells the website. “I can’t say too much about it without giving away the huge spoiler at the end. It has a little bit to do with the Greek myth of Demeter, the god of the harvest. It follows a fisherman’s wife as she kind of waits for her husband to return from sea. She tends to the crops and the animals. While she’s doing this, things start to bubble to the surface.”
Cloonan’s previous two minicomics, Wolves and The Mire, are now available from comiXology.
Becky Cloonan teases new minicomic Demeter
Although Becky Cloonan has been hard at work on The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys, the upcoming miniseries that teams her with Gerard Way and Shaun Simon, she’s somehow found time for a new minicomic called Demeter.
The announcement this morning wasn’t accompanied by any details, but if this minicomic is anywhere near as good as her two previous ones, Wolves and The Mire, it will be well worth keeping an eye out for. The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys will be previewed May 4 as part of Dark Horse’s Free Comic Book Day lineup before launching in June; Demeter will arrive “later this year.”