Comic Artist Appreciation: Peach Momoko

 Hello lovely beings

Peach Momoko is a Japanese comic book artist, who immediately caught my eye when I first got truly into reading/collecting comic books. I had a rule where I wasn't allowed to buy any unless I was 100% sure I was going to read them. Quickly broken soon as I came across Peach's watercolors. I think I've truly only read two out of my whole collection 😅, but I don't intend not to read the rest ever! She's even done album art for the band Tool ✨ 

Reading I Hate Fairyland when I first got into comics probably wasn't the best idea. I was highly distraught that the inner art didn't match the cover, and probably made me a little biased against the storyline. On the other hand, Zawa was an adorable delight to read. I generally skew more spooky, demented, horror when looking for readable media to consume. 

Oop, just remebered I did also read Hello Darkness, so that's a whole THREE comics form my Peach collection that have been read. Nice 👍🏼✨ I adore how she mixes cuteness with nightmarish themes from time to time.

I will never get over how preciously her women of color come out. I was already smitten by how good she is with watercolors, but when I saw the Moon Girl for the first time [the first one I bought] I was in awe. The way she's able to show a beautiful assortment of complexions and different hair types ᵒ̴̶̷̥́ ·̫ ᵒ̴̶̷̣̥̀

Listen, she draws Magik so adorable for one. It was a MegaCon exclusive for two. Her last two or so variant exclusives sold out AND my close friend was selling it. So $65 doesn't truly feel like too much ٩(ˊᗜˋ*)و ♡.

So far from my must read rule at this point TT_TT. I see now that I have also wrongfully left the title of Magik #1 where Gone #1 should be 😅...I know I still have the time to change it, but I've already typed out the explanation so let's move right along [LOL].

Some of the works I found where she did all the storyline and interior artwork for! She's got her own Momoko-verse where she tells the stories of Marvel characters through Japanese folklore, horror, and the like. Though I have not moved these over to the "read" stack, I do at least know that about these bad boys.

Don't you just wanna hug the Venom! Maybe not as much Miles, but he still looks damn cool.

Do you collect comic books, or anything solely for the purpose of the joy of looking at it?

Thank you for reading

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