The Snow Queen

This was created for the 'Ship Wars "Fairy Tale" challenge

I was surprised at how easily the Hans Christian Anderson literary fairy tale can be mapped onto "The Cage". It's always been one of the stories I totally loved as a kid, mainly because like "Tam Lin" (which which it might well be based--I've always been a bit fuzzy on that) it's about the guy being the damsel in distress, while the awesome girl has to go save his ass. And it's sort of timeless, in that everyone can relate to losing your best friend when he gets stolen away by a pretty face. I mean, that's the plot of everything from "Some Kind of Wonderful" to Chloe and Clark on Smallville.

(Only, you know, Miss Amanda Jones isn't actually evil. And neither, really is Vina--hence the Talosians being in there because it's about the fantasy of Vina, not the real person.)

This was actually ridiculously easy to picture, and ridiculously difficult to actually assemble. Mostly because I could see in my head what I wanted, but couldn't really find the stock to make it happen. So the triptych format is a compromise, and I actually really like where it took me, design-wise.