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Loïc Locatelli-Kournwsky Takes Persephone Straight to Hell in Miyazaki-Inspired OGN From BOOM!

BOOM! Studios has a new OGN hitting stores next year by Loïc Locatelli-Kournwsky, and it's going to go a little something like this…

Okay, it's not actually going to go like that, and as it turns out, it's not actually a tie-in to BOOM!'s ongoing WWE comic at all. Instead:

"Persephone is a moving original graphic novel (OGN) about a young girl whose search for the truth about her identity leads her on a journey deep into the Underworld. Inspired by the Greek myth of Demeter and her daughter, the eponymous Persephone, the book is a modern-day fantasy adventure featuring an emotionally nuanced story and lush art." So totally different, though you can see how we would have been mistaken.

The press release goes further in describing the concept:

"In PERSEPHONE, she may be the adopted daughter of the famous magician Demeter, but Persephone struggles to find her place alongside the force of nature that is her mother. Driven by recurring nightmares, she decides to explore the secrets of her birth, which everyone around her seems rather intent on keeping from her. With or without their help, Persephone will embark on an epic adventure deep into the Underworld where she'll discover who—or what—she is."

"For a long time I wanted to write a story that speaks to the bond between a mother and daughter, as well as this timeless theme we call 'the quest for identity.' This is something really important to me—it was already the main subject of my previous book about Pocahontas, and something I experience in my everyday life as an expatriate," said Locatelli-Kournwsky, who was born in France but now lives in Japan (we checked, and he is not C.B. Cebulski writing under a pen name). "I've read Greek mythology stories many times and grew fond of Persephone and Demeter, so I decided to make a book about it."

Locatelli-Kournwsky was inspired in terms of visuals by the work of Hayao Miyazaki. "I am absolutely crazy about Whisper of the Heart and Only Yesterday. The main characters from these movies were my main inspirations for Persephone. And Demeter is supposed to look like Kate Winslet from her film The Dressmaker, mixed with the Witch of the Waste from Howl's Moving Castle."

Look for Persephone wherever fine comics are sold in May 2018.

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