Wolves

by Becky Cloonan

If this were the only comic I picked up at this year's Toronto Comic Arts Festival, I would have considered it a worthwhile trip.  Becky Cloonan is a favourite artist of mine, and I love having the opportunity to pick up something like this self-published, limited mini-comic.

Wolves was originally written and drawn for inclusion in a Japanese anthology, but now Cloonan has fleshed it out further, and had it printed on high-quality paper.

It's a story about a man (perhaps a soldier?) in a medieval town, who has been into the woods to kill a werewolf.  It's a pretty straight-forward tale, but it is beautifully illustrated.  Cloonan puts a lot of detail into her period piece artwork (see her recent arc on Northlanders), and these pages are virtually dripping with black ink.

This is a cool little book.