Please, note that Lady Mandy is fully fictional, she is not a real loa.
Also, the dolls on the big panel, left to right:
Sad, Doc Patch, Mojo, Noleg on the back, Talkative and it’s sibling Deafpot, then Zippy with Strawberry on it’s knees, on the back Eshu the wood puppet and Alice the bunny, Lefty the one armed doll, then Monkeysock, on the back: Jack the pumpkin, Talkative’s other sibling Pale Doll, and to the far right, Granny Calabash.
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If Eshu chara-design (the wood puppet) seem to change in the next pages… No, it doesn’t.
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Ah. Right, I forgot Eshu was doing a magnificent first impression in this page. (also, his design was still evolving at the time)
Mojo’s manner were also evolving .
(The bunny is Alice, Lady Mandy’s hand-maiden-plushy )
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While i LOVE Lady Mandy’s loa aspect, her little mandragore root design is just so CUTE.
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Oh yeah, compared to the others dolls, Eshu is a giant, but he is smaller than Sunday, for exemple.
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STORY TIME! (this won’t be a fairy tale)
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I both loved and hated doing these pages. Loved the result, cursed during the process. Ink washes are HELL
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And say hi to the Baron Samedi !