In a monastery where revealing one's face is an affront to the god housed inside its very chambers, what happens when one young man accidentally sees the face of another?

Ruin of the House of the Divine Visage is a 3-part comic co-created by my partner and I. We co-wrote the story and thumbnailed together, Spire illustrated it, and I lettered it. The full graphic novel is available to buy as a PDF on itch.io, and the comic is also being released with one page a week for free on visagecomic.com. In September 2024 a Kickstarter campaign ran to fund a hardback print edition, which you can buy here.

Praise for Ruin:

"The story feels laced with an ever-present, ominous threat that makes the stolen moments of romance feel even more vital and vivid. I was hooked." - Hari Conner, creator of Finding Home and I Shall Never Fall in Love

"The art oozes charm, from its elegantly designed characters to its delicately dense environments. I deeply enjoyed it." - Rowan MacColl, creator of Kingfisher

"The comic had me in an emotional chokehold from start to finish. [...] Ruin of the House of the Divine Visage should be at the top of your to-read pile." - Javier Reyes, GONKBONK

Bonus Ruin stuff:

• A behind the scenes breakdown of how we made the comic.
• Other people's drawings of the characters.

Once again, this comic blossomed out of one of me and Spire's worldbuilding projects. One of my favourite parts of the first draft was the inclusion of the "writing" system I originally created for this world: strings of beads based on stenotype machines. Although Spire ended up simplifying it for the final version of the comic, I'm still very fond of my original complicated bead combinations and I've written a bit about it here if you're interested.