THE ANIMORPHS I’ve been working on a reimagining of the Animorphs book series. My own alternate reality of what I think would be fun to explore with this team. Keeping the core of the characters alive, but bringing to life things I saw when I started the series as a kid, and the potential I see now. * When I first started the series, I was eight, and I was terrible at reading. No book could hold my attention for long, and I was always getting bored or frustrated. But when I picked up Animorphs, the universe opened to so many possibilities of fun worlds to see and explore through books. Loving Animorphs helped me start reading Harry Potter, and Neil Gaiman books, and then made me interested in working at a Library and a Comic Book store, which I did for many years. It has snowballed so many times over to greater things, I can track it all back to my mom trying 101 things to get me to read, and then finally landing this ragtag group of kids. So when I started rereading the series to see if it was appropriate for my nephew, I got nostalgic and started sketching the characters. Snowballing now to a whole new alt U. * If you dont understand the reference and only remember seeing the weird mid morph book covers, honestly, pick up a copy. Rereading them, looking passed and laughing at some of the dated 1998 pop culture references, and the sometimes simple perspective of junior high kids, there are so many adult themes hidden behind the guise of six 13 year olds. Themes of addiction, abuse, abandonment, suicide, war (obviously), and growing up way too fast. As a kid, so much went over my head. But now reading them as an adult, I can see things I learned in the series as an either year old, and applied to my life without even knowing it. * Thank you @katherineapplegateauthor for being a driving force for why I loved to read as a kid and now! And I hope yall enjoy what comes next. * #artofspencerjoh #animorphs #andalite #andalitebandits #altuniverse #animorphsaltu #kaapplegate #katherineapplegate #books #art #illustration #characters #characterdesign #artistsoninstagram #creaturedesign #aliens #cartoons #comics #anime #spencerjohnson #queerart #gayart #storyboards #sketch
