Today I'm joined by illustrator/cartoonist Oliver Bly to chat about his new ecological fantasy OGN, The Mushroom Knight, dropping in early March from Mad Cave Studios. A faerie mushroom knight, Gowlitrot, embarks on a quest to deal with a mysterious threat to his woodland kingdom. Along the way, he encounters a human girl, Lem, who has lost her dog Beans and as she trapses through the woods in search of him, the two cross paths and their destinies are forever intertwined. There a lot of narratives at play in this unique debut, the big one for me was looking at moving away from an anthropocentric lens and examining how humankind and nature are intertwined or deep ecology. As a fantasy/mystery hybrid with a little bit of unsettling horror thrown in, I loved it for its complexity. We also share our mutual adoration of mushrooms and hatred of tiger mosquitos in the chat. Don't miss it.
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