PROJECT M : My only desire

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Apollonia Saintclair 1230 – 20241112 La vie nouvelle (My only desire) – preliminary drawing

„Gone is the ancient snare that chokes all heathen desire.
In faeries lair, the mythical beast awakens,
Drawn by the prurient flair, it stokes the maidens’ fire.
An eerie pair, to a mystical feast partaken.”

Inspired by true events from the Renaissance, Project M is a graphic story that exposes how a society’s prejudices and anxieties can, under extraordinary stresses and circumstances, breed true monsters. (Release 2025)

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PROJECT M : As free as a leaflet

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Apollonia Saintclair 1229 – 20241105 Les idées en liberté (As free as a leaflet) – preliminary drawing

„Once ethereal, words have grown fluttering white wings.
Like transient gabble, printed paper flocks Europe’s skies.
Editorial birds come down cackling on slight winds.
One ebullient gaggle, inked chatter stokes hopes and lies.”

Inspired by true events from the Renaissance, Project M is a graphic story that exposes how a society’s prejudices and anxieties can, under extraordinary stresses and circumstances, breed true monsters.

Release 2025

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Project M : The working girl

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Apollonia Saintclair 1228 – 20241104 La fille de joie (The working girl) – preliminary drawing

„On the killing glade, as heaven and hell are on scales.
Men-at-arms trade a treat of flesh for a bit of cash.
One thrilling parade, as this hoydens’ spells are on sales
And her charms made for a cheap love sesh before the clash.”

Inspired by true events from the Renaissance, Project M is a graphic story that exposes how a society’s prejudices and anxieties can, under extraordinary stresses and circumstances, breed true monsters.

Release 2025

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PROJECT M : New plague unlocked

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Apollonia Saintclair 1219 – 20240901 Le Grand Echange (New plague unlocked) – preliminary drawing

„Ships across the sea, ferry doom with the wayfarers.
Two worlds, once apart, brought close by violent coupling,
Swap unseen fevers: a fiery bloom of wet cankers
Spoil the queen of heart, bought for a coin of vile sterling”

Inspired by true events from the Renaissance, Project M is a graphic story that exposes how a society’s prejudices and anxieties can, under extraordinary stresses and circumstances, breed true monsters.

Release 2025

Many more drawings by Apollonia Saintclair in the 6 volumes of INK IS MY BLOOD – COLLECTION. Order here : apolloniasaintclair.bigcartel.com

PROJECT M : Widow Wiggers’ Wedding

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Apollonia Saintclair 1227 – 20241012 La passion de la plus violente nature (Widow Wiggers’ Wedding) – sketch

Both driven by inner fire against woke oppression, | Striving priest and dissing wife,
In blaring defiance, | Repudiate their master, the yoke of submission, | Conjugate two distinct strife in blazing alliance.

Inspired by true events from the 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 | Release 2025

Many more drawings by Apollonia Saintclair in the 6 volumes of INK IS MY BLOOD – COLLECTION. Order here : apolloniasaintclair.bigcartel.com

PROJECT M : All that is high shall be low

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Apollonia Saintclair 1215 – 20240824 Le découronnement des sanctuaires (All that is high shall be low) – sketch

Great merchant, tired of the clergy’s power, / A rich man, driven by a somber frugality, / Claims a vision: topple the Church tower, / And raise the congregation to new majesty

Inspired by true events from the 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 | Release 2025

Many more drawings by Apollonia Saintclair in the 6 volumes of INK IS MY BLOOD – COLLECTION

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PROJECT M : German Peasants’ war

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Apollonia Saintclair 1216 – 20240825 Les fruits de malheur (German Peasants’ war)

The countryside in rebellion, the gentry bleeds every night. / Thousands and thousands band, an armed brotherhood. / Cornered on a bloody hill, routed by the Prince’s knights. / Thousands and thousands hang, strange fruits in the wood

Inspired by true events from the 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 | Release 2025

Many more drawings by Apollonia Saintclair in the 6 volumes of INK IS MY BLOOD – COLLECTION

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PROJECT M : If you see me, then weep

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Apollonia Saintclair 1212 – 20240817 La grande faim dans les campagnes (If you see me, then weep) – sketch

Blazing droughts follow rotten summers. / The rivers are dry, the barges silted up at the mouths / Their cargo devoured by rats or stolen by privateers. / The starving bedded on bare stones like stranded shrouds.

Inspired by true events from the 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 | Release 2025

Many more drawings by Apollonia Saintclair in the 6 volumes of INK IS MY BLOOD – COLLECTION

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PROJECT M : The last robber barons

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Apollonia Saintclair 1209 – 20240730 La fin de la chevalerie (The last robber barons) – preliminary

The power of the Empire expands / No longer the untouchable local tyrants / Shall go unpunished, petty thugs / Taking what they covet by violence.

Their exactions, an intolerable nuisance / All are calling for their imminent demise / For both the overlord and the innocents despise / This taint on a once irreproachable institution

Inspired by true events from the 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 | Release 2025

Many more drawings by Apollonia Saintclair in the 6 volumes of INK IS MY BLOOD – COLLECTION

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PROJECT M : Under the billowing skirt

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Apollonia Saintclair 1161 – 20240316 La belle flottante (Under the billowing skirt) – sketch

A fair flower with a strangled throat

Kept afloat by her bloated skirt

She drifts toward the slimy moat

Her bare blond hair dragging in the dirt

Inspired by true events from the 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 | Release Fall 2024

More drawings by Apollonia Saintclair in the 6 volumes of INK IS MY BLOOD – COLLECTION

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PROJECT M : And she saw his naked flesh

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Apollonia Saintclair 1160 – 20240307 La possession de Katharina K. (And she saw his naked flesh) – sketch

A strange light shines in the young man’s pupils.

Prey to madness, the widow advances a quivering mouth.

Fingers buried like banderillas in the beautiful archangel,

She devours the warm, fragrant flesh with full throat.

Inspired by true events from the 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 | Release Fall 2024

More drawings by Apollonia Saintclair in the 6 volumes of INK IS MY BLOOD – COLLECTION

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PROJECT M : The unfulfilled bride

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Apollonia Saintclair 1159 – 20240306 Le mariage de convenance (The unfulfilled bride) – sketch

A young unfulfilled widow, remarried by convenience

To a smug and frigid merchant, in a silent mansion

She dreams, all languid by her guest’s appearance

To flatter his avid flesh with licentious passion.

Inspired by true events from the 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 | Release Fall 2024

More drawings by Apollonia Saintclair in the 6 volumes of INK IS MY BLOOD – COLLECTION

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PROJECT M : Till the river silences her

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Apollonia Saintclair 1158 – 20240224 La fiancée indocile (Till the river silences her) – sketch

The rebel is thrown into the river

And held down with tight ropes

As her life flows away with a whisper

Under cold water, till she chokes.

Inspired by true events from the 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 | Release Fall 2024

More drawings by Apollonia Saintclair in the 6 volumes of INK IS MY BLOOD – COLLECTION

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PROJECT M : Death is where I am not

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Apollonia Saintclair 1157 – 20240221 La Fleur de Mai (Death is where I am not) – sketch

I dropped deep into the black,

But darkness sent me back.

Let’s flip the hourglass, it said,

‘Cause your time is not up, yet.

Inspired by true events from the 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 | Release Fall 2024

More drawings by Apollonia Saintclair in the 6 volumes of INK IS MY BLOOD – COLLECTION

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PROJECT M : THE INK OF DAYS PAST

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Apollonia Saintclair 1156 – 20240212 L’éternel retour (The ink of days past) – sketch

Time is a haunted parchment,

Smeared with ink of days past.

Ghostly lines guide our hand

As we trace our own eerie path.

Inspired by true events from the 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 | Release Fall 2024

More drawings by Apollonia Saintclair in the 6 volumes of INK IS MY BLOOD – COLLECTION

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