Based on our puppet show of the same name, The Sealskin zine unspools our original telling of a Selkie myth. Scottish traditional folklore and tales around Selkies (creatures who can take the form of both seals and humans) inspired the many conversations and explorations that became this show and zine project.

From the perspective of the child of a selkie woman and a human man, our telling explores wildness, cycles of grief, and the tension between belonging to self and belonging to others.

Written and illustrated by both Annie and Channing with linocut prints, cut paper and collage.

Black and white, 5.5 x 4.25” on copier paper, machine stitched red thread binding.

The Geese

An original folk-horror story starkly illustrated with cut paper silhouettes, The Well is the story of two sisters and their encounter with an otherworld groom.

The Well subverts fairytale tropes and tale types to explore questions of interdependence, power, sanity, and the complex love of family against the backdrop of a dying system.

Hand-bound with red thread, 5.5 x 4.25”. Cover is black cardstock with a cutaway, pages are black and white on folded copier paper.

Braiding fairy tale images and rhythms into a new pattern, The Geese is the story within a story of a girl who is unable to rise in a society designed to prevent her rising. When the escape promised by fairy tales does not present itself in terms society can accept, she must find a way to live in the margins, or not at all.

An original dark fairytale with papercut illustrations on each page, the geese is also a shadow puppet show created by Annie.

Folded, 8-page black and white zine on copier paper. 4.25 x 2.75”