Apollonia Saintclair 1147 – 20231210 Le phallocrate (The milkmaid) – sketch
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“He was insatiable, and his lust unbridled, beyond all hope of satisfaction, for his heart was a black bottomless pit. He had to have them all.”
Inspired by true events from the early Renaissance, Project M is a graphic story in the making that exposes how a society’s prejudices and anxieties can, under extraordinary stresses and circumstances, breed true monsters.
Preliminary drawing | Book release in 2024
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Apollonia Saintclair 1146 – 20231203 Le plaisir du despote (The governing body)
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“This decree, it was whispered, was far from being of divine origin: it came rather from the ungovernable desire of the new king. For, although he had already husbanded the merchant’s daughter and promised to soon marry the prophet’s widow, it was reported that he had been seen slipping into the servant’s bath every night. It was hardly his first adultery, but now there were witnesses. Thus, once again he had chosen to head forward and outpaced his detractors with consummate skill, and simply made his fault his right.”
Inspired by true events from the early Renaissance, Project M is a graphic story in the making that exposes how a society’s prejudices and anxieties can, under extraordinary stresses and circumstances, breed true monsters.
Apollonia Saintclair 1145 – 20231130 L’enthousiasme des néophytes (Please teach us the New Life)
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“He had already slipped into the city the previous year and found it in a state of feverish waiting, its inhabitants dangerously vulnerable to the seduction of new ideas and ripe to fall into the arms of an inspired preacher. He had left as discreetly as he had come, determined to return. Now he was back, and ready to get to work.”
Inspired by true events from the early Renaissance, Project M is a graphic story in the making that exposes how a society’s prejudices and anxieties can, under extraordinary stresses and circumstances, breed true monsters.
Apollonia Saintclair 1144 – 20231117 La nudité est mon étendard (The naked truth) – sketch
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“Such hysteria had to be nipped in the bud: unfrightened and unrepentant, they had taunted the soldiers sent to seize them and such was the strength of their faith that they even convinced their jailers to strip and join them. At their trial, they called their judges “leeches” and then proudly went to their deaths.”
Inspired by true events from the early Renaissance, Project M is a graphic story in the making that exposes how a society’s prejudices and anxieties can, under extraordinary stresses and circumstances, breed true monsters.
Preliminary drawing | Book release in 2024
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More drawings by Apollonia Saintclair in the 6 volumes of INK IS MY BLOOD – COLLECTION
Apollonia Saintclair 1143 – 20231116 L’amour d’un fils illégitime (Breastfeeding the bastard) – sketch
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“He had spent his early childhood in the shadows, banished from view like a disgraceful thing, and forced to share his mother with a lustful man who did not recognize him as his son. But now he was entering the light and taking back what was rightfully his.”
Inspired by true events from the early Renaissance, Project M is a graphic story in the making that exposes how a society’s prejudices and anxieties can, under extraordinary stresses and circumstances, breed true monsters.
Preliminary drawing | Book release in 2024
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More drawings by Apollonia Saintclair in the 6 volumes of INK IS MY BLOOD – COLLECTION
Apollonia Saintclair 1141 – Le bétail humain (The barn angels) – sketch
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“Many saw it as an act of shameless predation, not protection, but their objections were silenced and those who balked were quickly subdued, put away in a barn and held like cattle.”
Inspired by true events from the early Renaissance, Project M is a graphic story in the making that exposes how a society’s prejudices and anxieties can, under extraordinary stresses and circumstances, breed true monsters.
Preliminary drawing | Book release in 2024
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More drawings by Apollonia Saintclair in INK IS MY BLOOD – COLLECTION
Apollonia Saintclair 1140 – 20231026 L’ordalie par le feu (Auto-da-fé)
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“The world – and thought – were expanding: new ideas, each more disturbing than the last, were circulating out of control. Their certainties, reinforced by an age-old monopoly of orthodoxy, suddenly shaken by the ever more powerful groundswells of a burgeoning humanism, the secular and regular arms joined forces once again to counter deviance in all its forms and purge the social body of these ferments by subduing those who were their most virulent sources through the most extraordinary act of faith: purification by fire.”
Inspired by true events from the early Renaissance, Project M is a graphic story in the making that exposes how a society’s prejudices and anxieties can, under extraordinary stresses and circumstances, breed true monsters.
Preliminary drawing | Book release in 2024
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More drawings by Apollonia Saintclair in INK IS MY BLOOD – COLLECTION
Apollonia Saintclair 1138 – 20230928 La troisième cavalière (The black horse) – sketch
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“As they wandered like hungry specters in the uncertain landscape of the devastated glacis, they saw slowly emerge from the acrid mists a rider on an ebony horse, as beautiful and imposing as a pagan statue, and they knew that there would be no help and that their emaciated bodies were destined to soon litter this nameless place.”
Preliminary drawing | Book release in 2024
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Apollonia Saintclair 1137 – 20230927 Le spectacle céleste (The battle of M) – sketch
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“The Lord was sending them a sign terrible and magnificent to show his approval and announce to all that his divine fire would illuminate the faithful and punish their enemies in a deluge of flames, as the sun was now no longer single, but triple and the entire firmament of clouds was in flames, bathing the assembled witnesses in a miraculous glow. The time had come at last. ”
Preliminary drawing | Book release in 2024
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Apollonia Saintclair 1136 – 20230924 L’embrasement collectif (The time has come at last) – sketch
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“The population, possessed by a feverish mixture of anguish and relief, poured into the streets, and indulged in complete, senseless abandon, stripping themselves naked and animated by a jig which seized the exalted bodies and distorted them in a disordered mass of demeaning positions.”
Preliminary drawing | Book release in 2024
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Apollonia Saintclair 1135 – 20230919 L’avénement des anges noirs (The horned beasts) – sketch
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“Tales of terrifying encounters were spread from town to town, told in lowered voices so as not to frighten the children, like that of the peasant attacked by a horned beast on a deserted road one winter evening while returning from the market. The man had survived this disconcerting attack, but his ordeal had rendered him mute and those who had come to his aid were reduced to feverish conjectures, supported by the insane shape of his wounds, on the nature of the entity which had assaulted.”
Preliminary drawing | Book release in 2024
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Apollonia Saintclair 1133 – 20230916 Les tourments de la tentation (On the beauty of evil) – sketch
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“Light only shines in darkness”
Inspired by true events from the early Renaissance, Project M is a graphic story in the making that exposes how a society’s prejudices and anxieties can, under extraordinary stresses and circumstances, breed true monsters.
Preliminary drawing | Book release in 2024
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More drawings by Apollonia Saintclair in INK IS MY BLOOD – COLLECTION
Apollonia Saintclair 1132 – 20230913 Le Diable et la Mère du Diable (The big guns) – sketch
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“Coming from the four corners of the country, a pack of overheated cannons surrounded the besieged city and shelled it without pause. When night came, the most powerful of them, two formidable guns named “the Devil” and “the Devil’s Mother”, spewed long jets of incandescent slime into the darkness, accompanied by an obscene roar that made moan the inhabitants holed up in their beds, because each new discharge, each new impact announced that soon resistance would give way under the onslaught of these insatiable monsters and that the innocent city would be brutally taken and delivered body and soul to the ravages of the episcopal thugs.”
Inspired by true events from the early Renaissance, Project M is a graphic story in the making that exposes how a society’s prejudices and anxieties can, under extraordinary stresses and circumstances, breed true monsters.
Preliminary drawing | Book release in 2024
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More drawings by Apollonia Saintclair in INK IS MY BLOOD – COLLECTION
Apollonia Saintclair 1131 – 20230906 Les femmes de camp (The war brides) – sketch
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“Brides for one night or for a lifetime, they are as ferocious and faithful as the frightening mastiffs who guard their children, born in the straw and mud of bivouacs, and their fertile bellies, like a Europe in tumult, are relentlessly surveyed by armies of gleaming men, proud and vain like fighting cocks, who leave their seed there before going to confront each other and be mutilated in the service of princes.”
Inspired by true events from the early Renaissance, Project M is a graphic story in the making that exposes how a society’s prejudices and anxieties can, under extraordinary stresses and circumstances, breed true monsters.
Preliminary drawing | Book release in 2024
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More drawings in INK IS MY BLOOD – COLLECTION
6 volumes | 888 pages of light and darkness by Apollonia Saintclair
Apollonia Saintclair 1130 – 20230903 Le pain des anges (The carnal host)
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“The world, in which from time immemorial the sacred had permeated every chink of the profane and vice versa, was falling apart, leaving us in dire need of new miracles.”
Inspired by true events from the early Renaissance, Project M is a graphic story in the making that exposes how a society’s prejudices and anxieties can, under extraordinary stresses and circumstances, breed true monsters.
Preliminary drawing | Book release in 2024
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More drawings in INK IS MY BLOOD – COLLECTION
6 volumes | 888 pages of light and darkness by Apollonia Saintclair
