📝This archived post is originally from my old comics focused Wordpress blog from 2011-2019. That site was a space to publicly commit to learning the art and craft of cartooning and self-publishing. These posts are full of a naive enthusiasm that though at times embarrassing, I'm proud of. I hope you find them useful in some way.❤️

Hey all, I’m contributing to Tara Helfer’s 72 Demons Project. I thought I’d share my work in progress.

You know how I am with anthropomorphizing birds, so when I saw that Malphas, the half-man half crow defense specialist and military strategist was still up for grabs, I jumped on that. Here’s a preliminary sketch fro my contribution. You can count on Malphas getting fancy.

[![](http://fernandezjuanjose.files.wordpress.com/2012/06/photo-43.jpg)](http://fernandezjuanjose.files.wordpress.com/2012/06/photo-43.jpg)_Inspired by the Lesser Key of Solomon, comics, and 17th century grimoire, the [72DEMONS project](http://72demons.blogspot.com/) is a venue for new and budding visual artists. Our goal is to publish an illustrated book depicting the seventy-two demons archived in the Ars Goetia, believed to be a guide written by King Solomon for summoning both helpful and malevolent spirits. Thousands of years later these entities persist, although they have changed their names and faces!_ _ Since summer of 2011, [72DEMONS](http://72demons.blogspot.com/) has expanded into a diverse collective of illustrators, painters, graphic designers, writers and video artists - making for one hefty book!_

Here’s a peek at the first proof of the beautiful book: