The Shades of London

First of a series of character sketches for the Shades of London series by Maureen Johnson. These books are AMAZING. Read the first book, The Name of the Star last year and wanted to do a series of black and white comics but never got around to it. Just finished the second bok, The Madness Underneath on Friday. I was quite upset by the ending but I was inspired to draw the characters

Here is the heroine Rory Deveaux, a girl from Louisania that moves to London and goes to a fancy boarding school and gets becomes a witness in the case of a serial killer who fashions himself after Jack the Ripper. In the top corner is Stephen Dene, the policeman that Rory has quite a bit of contact with during the caveauxse!