The Lady’s Murder
by Eliza Frye
Self-published

Eliza Frye has an overwhelming talent for constructing beautiful images.  I sat next to her at APE in 2009 and was totally awestruck by her work.  Dumbstruck even.  Still, fans kept flocking to her table, chatting her up, and I wondered ‘How does anyone know what to say to someone whose artwork is so goddamn gorgeous?’  Fandom is an art all its own, I tell you.

Her background as an illustrator and character artist comes across strongly in projects like The Lady’s Murder.  In it, she takes a rather sexy poem from S. Albert Chatman and uses his idea to build a bony story structure from which her gorgeous art hangs lush and wild.

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