This is a black and white illustration commissioned for the short story "The Tower Block" published in The Broken Pencil Magazine. "The Tower Block" is a surreal thriller story set in a Soviet-era apartment block setting.
Chosen by American Illustration 42nd Annual
2022
Art Director Maria Cichosz
Editorial Illustration for The Broken Pencil Magazine of an absurdist piece that uses classic comic book motifs and language to tell the story of a young man whose body becomes mummified and is used as a prop that becomes the inspiration for a popular action comic book character called Duke Alvarez, a living mummy who fights outlaws in the Old West.
2024
Art Director: Maria Cichosz
Editorial illustration for The Broken Pencil Magazine of an existential piece that uses a climb up a mountain as an allegory for how one might choose to live their life.
2024
Art Director: Maria Cichosz
Editorial illustration done for The Broken Pencil Magazine of a short story about a couple who meets during a murder tour and bonds over their shared love of horror as a genre.
2022
Art Director: Maria Cichosz
As we live in a more and more social distance reality, the virtual reality becomes the only place we have to maintain our relationships.
Enter the Dreamatorium to escape the the present and experience a whole new reality.
In a bid for immortality, mankind finally pulls the trigger to ditch the mortal flesh and transfer the consciousness into machine bodies.
This is an illustrations highlighting the importance of critical thinking and thinking for yourself. Not blindly subscribing to group think and group ideologies.
