Bunty

When I was a little girl I Ioved Bunty - loved the drawings, loved the stories...often really dark, which seems so unusual for a comic written for young girls. Lots of stories about orphaned girls or evil dolls that came alive at night or impoverished girls who had an amazing talent but we forced to practice in secret because their cruel parents would beat them in the day time. Or something like that.

I once went to a lecture with one of the animators from Aardman - he told a story about Bunty (can't remember how on earth he got to the topic) and how the illustrators working on it would get so bored doing such repetitive work that they would see how dark and tragic they could push it. And boy did they ever!

Check out the link above to see a sample...








































Update: after a little bit of research I've come across this guy Sean Phillips - a Bunty illustrator! One of the good ones as well.