Tomie the Person

If it's news to you and you don't mind spoilers, recently developments in Zebra Girl have shown that Tomie, a living book, has become Tomie the living person!  Hey, how about that.  Good for Tomie.  That's got potential.

Well as it happened, a wonderful person named Dalal Naoum approached me at MoCCA Fest 2014 and asked for a picture of Tomie in her currently animate bipedal form. It turned out so well that I thought it would be a good opportunity to show off the former book's new body. So after Dalal sent me a scan I polished it up and now here she is for you to study.

I won't tell the story of just how Tomie achieved this state of being yet, but I will give a little background information. I had had his/her/its metamorphosis in mind for some years, and up until fairly recently I was planning to have the critter become an exotic gynoid construct, a half-book humanoid entirely constructed of paper and covers and whatnot. But when the time drew near to actually consider doing it, I realized that it would be much better to go with a simpler, more understated solution. Hell, I've got enough weird characters in my comic as it is, I don't need another headache on top of drawing Zandra's stripes.

So Tomie was given her new body, almost as uncomplicated as I could make her. And I don't mind saying that I'm proud of how she turned out! I'm already anxious to draw her again.