Dragon's Egg
When asked what my favorite kind of story is, I would be prone to name works like The Neverending Story by Michael Ende, Little Nemo in Slumberland by Winsor McCay or Brave Story by Miyuki Miyabe (which I admit I have only seen the animated movie version of so far). As clichéd as the premise of a modern day kid to enter the domains of a fantasy world may be, I adore the idea of a lush and imaginative realm experienced through the eyes of childlike innocence.

I completed a short story in a similar spirit with a little help from Clay Gardner, and you can read it here:



It started out with a small request: I wanted to stray away from my usual color work to do a couple of greyscale toned manga pages and asked Clay to write it. The original plan was to have no more than 4-5 pages, but the thing just kept growing in my mind as I read through the script. I was hooked. Once I got started, I finished the whole comic in little over a week.

As for the dragon's egg, its very existence will bring about much joy...and much grief. But this is not for our little hero to worry, for by then, this enchanted jewel will have long escaped his grasp into the hands of another.

But that's a story for another time.