The Dead Sparrow (Digital)

"We're all in this world together. Don't ever forget that."

A young girl named Maria finds a dead sparrow on the way to her mother's funeral.

Inspired by the films of Guillermo del Toro, Neil Gaiman's , and the haunting music of Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds, is an elegiac reflection on the emptiness of grief and the healing power of nature from writer Rick Quinn and illustrator Quinn Rae Manning.

11 pages | Death-positive fairy tale melancholia | Written by Rick Quinn. Art by Quinn Rae Manning. Hand lettered by Aditya Bidikar.