Allison Arias

A comic of pink and purple color theme. There are three panels on the top of the page of boys peering through a crack in the fence. Beneath the panels is a garden with a large water fountain.

Rappaccini's Daughter,

2020, marker on paper, 10½ x 7 inches

A pink and purple comic. A panel of a bush and a fence behind it. A small panel with an eye peeping through a crack. A panel with legs wearing loafers walking. A man wearing gloves and suspenders is looking over a chart on a clipboard. There is a panel of a close up of a hand picking an exotic flower. The man holds up the flower and calls for beatrice.

Rappaccini's Daughter,

2020, marker on paper, 10½ x 7 inches

Five panels along the top show a progression of a door opening, a foot walking, a hand swinging behind her, and tightens in on a girl walking. She is walking along the fence in the bottom panel. There is another panel with a close up of the peeping eye.

Rappaccini's Daughter,

2020, marker on paper, 10½ x 7 inches

In eight panels we see a gloved hand handing a flower to a young woman, the man with the suspenders walks with the young woman back to a door of a building. The last frame is of a young man slouched by the crack in the fence.

Rappaccini's Daughter,

2020, marker on paper, 10½ x 7 inches

Taking place in a school cafeteria, four boys are seated around a lunch room table. Two dark faces are in the foreground looking at them. The remaining five panels are of a young man talking to his friends

Rappaccini's Daughter,

2020, marker on paper, 10½ x 7 inches

Eight panels show a young man walking by a stand of bouquets, a close up on a bundle of flowers, a close up of the young man pondering. The following panels show a young woman trimming a bush, a hand knocking on a surface, and feet walking towards the sound.

Rappaccini's Daughter,

2020, marker on paper, 10½ x 7 inches

In a series of 11 panels there is a hand offering a bouquet from under a fence. A young woman covers her mouth while looking down. The bouquet is handed over. Young woman scratches her head while holding the bouquet. Three panels show a sequence of the flowers slowly dying. The final panels of a young man peeping.

Rappaccini's Daughter,

2020, marker on paper, 10½ x 7 inches

3 horizontal panels show a close up of feet shuffling in front of a fence. A close up of a young man’s torso where a heart is beating out of his chest. The remaining 4 frames show the young man’s face experiencing shock, love, nervousness, and a covering his eyes and screaming.

Rappaccini's Daughter,

2020, marker on paper, 10½ x 7 inches

A series of panels that get longer show a young man squeezing through two panels of a fence. The bottom of the page is the back of the young man’s head looking at a cracked water fountain. And surrounded by bushes

Rappaccini's Daughter,

2020, marker on paper, 10½ x 7 inches

4 top panels show a young man walking, turning backwards, and then bumping into a young woman. The young man and woman stand facing each other and talk while surrounded by bushes and exotic plants. The bottom two frames are a close up of the man and two bodies walking away between two bushes.

Rappaccini's Daughter,

2020, marker on paper, 10½ x 7 inches

One big panel depicts two legs walking left to right. A panel of a young man squatting down between two bushes, exotic plants jutting out of them. A series of sequential panels depict a hand advancing towards an exotic flower. A young woman shouts. 2 sequential panels show a startled man and legs in the air and a thumbs up.

Rappaccini's Daughter,

2020, marker on paper, 10½ x 7 inches

6 panels on top depict a woman laughing, a hand extended, a man kneeling holding a woman’s hand, a man standing while holding a woman’s hand, one hand retracting from grip, a bald man wearing a surgical mask opening a door. The frameless bottom image is the back of a man’s head and a woman turning her head

Rappaccini's Daughter,

2020, marker on paper, 10½ x 7 inches

A panel of a woman walking away from a man and his extended arm. 3 panels show a close up of the man hand open, a bald man with a surgical mask looking over his shoulder, a man with his hand closed. The bottom image is a man sneaking through a wooden fence and back out a paved street and sidewalk.

Rappaccini's Daughter,

2020, marker on paper, 10½ x 7 inches

5 separate horizontal panels depicting a scene of purple trees on a soft pink background

Rappaccini's Daughter,

2020, marker on paper, 10½ x 7 inches

Dark blue silhouettes of a young man, a young woman, a woman holding a leaf, a woman with her hands splayed, a man and woman holding hands.

Rappaccini's Daughter,

2020, marker on paper, 10½ x 7 inches

Panel of young man talking in front of a wood panel fence. The back of the young man walking away. In a large panel in the center is a young man with dark hair up the sidewalk from a young man with red hair. Panel showing angry dark haired young man. Panel of young man with arms out defensively

Rappaccini's Daughter,

2020, marker on paper, 10½ x 7 inches

A panel of a young man looking at his hand, two panels depicting each hand palm up. Panel of young man looking at his hand. Following are panels depicting a hand plucking a flower, a hand offering the flower, a hand holding a flower as it dies.

Rappaccini's Daughter,

2020, marker on paper, 10½ x 7 inches

A giant vial of dark liquid is on the top right corner of the page surrounded by panels depicting one young man handing a glowing vial to another young man, who is looking down at it.

Rappaccini's Daughter,

2020, marker on paper, 10½ x 7 inches

A series of panels depict a young man dropping the flower and crawling through the fence while crying. The image on the bottom is of a man angrily grabbing a woman’s wrist.

Rappaccini's Daughter,

2020, marker on paper, 10½ x 7 inches

Three panels show a dialogue between a man and woman. A woman is standing on a solid background. Two panels of a man turning away.

Rappaccini's Daughter,

2020, marker on paper, 10½ x 7 inches

A horizontal panel depicts a woman to one side of the bald man, and a man to the other. A large panel with a woman gesturing to herself. The bald man across the frame from her. Panel of young man revealing vial. The vial is handed over. A close up of the vial in the woman’s hand. A silhouette of woman drinking vial.

Rappaccini's Daughter,

2020, marker on paper, 10½ x 7 inches

n a sequence of cascading frames there is a close up of a foot and a broken vial, a close up of a shocked woman, a woman laying face down. The final image is of a kneeling man picking up a limp woman’s body.

Rappaccini's Daughter,

2020, marker on paper, 10½ x 7 inches

Allison Arias

BFA Comics: 2021