Maia Foster O'Neal

comics, crafts, feelings

Comics

Comics for Kids!

Title: Puffin and Troll are Friends This is a largely wordless comic, with most of the "dialogue" communicated through symbol, expression, and gesture. The comic is rendered in lush watercolors and lined with black India ink. Cover The lowercase title "puffin & troll are friends" is hand-painted in lavender watercolor, centered on a white background. The letters are rounded and friendly. At the bottom of the page is a rocky island (it's Heimaey island) in a calm blue-green sea. There are patches of green moss or grass capping the craggy, roughly textured brown rocks. Above the island float two little speech bubbles, tails pointing softly towards each other, each with a small red heart inside. The name Maia Foster O'Neal is handwritten in white, rounded lowercase letters in the island's shadow on the water.
Title: Harebells This comic is rendered in muted watercolors and digital black linework. Cover Two kids stand in the middle of the page on a loosely watercolored lilac background. Framing them in the foreground are the dark purple silhouettes of harebells, a wildflower that grows in Iceland where this story is set. The kid on the left is four-year-old Runa, who is wearing a swishy pink skirt, pink leggings, purple shoes with velcro fasteners, and a lavender shirt. She has blue eyes and blonde hair done up in two little buns. Grinning, she holds aloft a stuffed puffin toy. On the right is her older sister, 9-year-old Berit. Berit wears a floppy blue knitted hat over the top of her long brown hair, a green t-shirt, blue jeans, and slip-on lavender shoes. She looks slightly over her shoulder at the reader, with a guarded, almost apprehensive expression. In her hands she holds a small lime green disposable camera. The title of the story, Harebells, is handwritten above the two children. The author's name, Maia Foster O'Neal, is printed below them in the negative space of the flower silhouettes.

comics for young readers

Journal Comics

autobiographical comics for readers 13 and older

Educational Comics

Cover image for a comic titled "ACE 101" by sparklemaia. A character wearing a purple sweater, black baseball cap, and glasses is drawn from the chest up. They have light skin, freckles, and short dark hair, and they look like they're laughing or saying something joyfully with their arms wide open and hands uplifted. Jars and boxes on the shelves behind them have various asexual microlabel words on them. There are black, purple, and white hearts floating around the image. This comic is drawn digitally for the web and was originally published on ohjoysextoy.com. It is appropriate for teenage audiences and older. The color palette is primarily purples, browns, and yellows.

educational comics for readers 13 and older

Fiction Comics

The comic is in black and white with limited spot color in a few shades of a muted golden yellow. Most pages are panel-less, or contain unconventional panel shapes that bloom and spill and flow across the page. Cover The cover is white with a network of organic lines crawling across the page in a midtone yellow. The lines are dendritic, resembling branching lightning or a root system. (They are loosely based on the mycelial network formed in the growth patterns of slime mold!) Amidst the negative space between the branching lines is the title in a dark golden-brown: “Entangled.” Beneath that, in another gap in the lines, is the author name: “maia.”

fiction comics for readers 13 and older