Calyx Design

The appropriately mysterious final page of the graphic series “The Enigmatic Adventures of Isabel Ash, portraying our heroine’s disappearance into the San Francisco fog. The story was begun simply as an experiment with a graphic illustration style, for no other reason than that I had always wanted to draw a comic book!

The terms of the challenge I set for myself involved drawing each page by hand using tools that few living persons have ever seen… pencil, paper, ink and erasers. The series ran from 1999 to 2003, with a single page appearing four times a year at the back of the cult vintage scooter magazine Scoot Quarterly. It’s very interesting to see the evolution of the drawing style during those four years of intermittent work.

Eventually the labor of drawing these pages, compelled me to (somewhat guiltily) abruptly drop the project after 16 episodes, but I still receive fan mail through the comic’s website, www.isabelash.com.