Orc Girl

Orc Girl

Writer/Letterer: Paul Allor
Artist: Thomas Boatwright
Editor: Rob Anderson

The world is as big as you want it to be.

In this gentle coming-of-age story, Fern the orc discovers that it can be a very large place, indeed. But is that what she wants?

I didn't even know I could love an orc untl I read Paul Allor's Orc Girl. Funny, charming, bittersweet, and moving, I found myself dreading the end and demanding a sequel at the same time. Absolutely lovely in story and art, a perfect little comic, realized brilliantly.”
-- Gail Simone (Uncanny X-Men)

Checks all the boxes for things I not only love, but ache for in fiction – non-traditional leads,  surprising coming of age stories, strong female lead characters, stereotype busting, beautiful atypical art, and smart lovely writing. But sometimes creators forget that checking those boxes – whether for political correctness or passion – doesn’t make something good. It still has to be good.

”Orc Girl is GOOD.”
-- Kelly Thompson (Absolute Wonder Woman, Birds of Prey)

My first one-shot comic, self-published and self-distributed.

It led to Past the Last Mountain, an expansive project set in the same world, hundreds of years later.