I drew this one evening while in the Builders Arms. I'd started the session with a couple of friends who left early but not before our table was overtaken by a group of much younger folk celebrating a birthday. One of them honed in and started talking about my drawing. Her name was Joanna, too. There was too much of an age gap. I had a conscience then. Maybe I was too self conscious. Still like the picture, though.
I had a lot of goes at this. The girl on the cover of Hysteria #1 was adapted from a photograph of one of Charcot's hysteria patients. The second was a mutation of that one looking crazier and sporting huge claws. This had her sprouting roots into her mattress and long dangling runners like a banyan tree. The one I eventually went with was far more aboreal. She was shedding foliage as it was meant to be an Autumn theme. I'll try and dig that one out.
