Cloonan And Lotay Team Up For DSTLRY’s Erotic Folk-Horror Comic ‘Somna’
by Tom Smithyman
Eisner Award-winning comic book creators Becky Cloonan and Tula Lotay are joining forces this fall to develop a new erotic folk-horror series.
Due out in November, Somna follows Ingrid’s escape from her puritanical world. Set during the witch hunts in a quiet 1600s English village, Ingrid is unhappily married to Roland, the town’s bailiff and chief witch hunter. After a prominent town leader is found murdered, accusations fly – and no one is excluded from Roland’s crusade. Ingrid has her suspicions about the murderer, but as she searches for the truth, she’s pursued by a shadowy figure.
“Somna culminates from a decade-plus reveling in the darkest mythologies of history,” said Cloonan. “Being able to explore these lifetime obsessions alongside one of my favorite creators has made this a career-defining project.”
Somna spins out of What Blighted Flame Burns in Thee?, one of the many stories found in The Devil’s Cut, publisher DSTLRY’s debut release due out tomorrow. Cloonan and Lotay will share writing, illustrating and coloring duties for the oversized issues. The pair are also each drawing their own covers, with incentive versions to be announced later.
“I can’t express how excited I am to finally see Somna conjured into existence,” Lotay said. “Becky and I have been finessing this brutally dark and sexy journey for years, and there’s been nothing like it before in comics.”
