• Cover: A painting of Antigone has been multiplied into different overlapping colors and her head has been separated from her head. Between her head and body there's curving white text that says "Death's Bridal Chamber". On her chest it says "A Retelling of Antigone by Jaime Mosquera". There is a red background with paper texture
  • Page 1 Panel 1: Two bloody hands appear, with their palms facing up. Text reads, "When my father Oedipus realized the horror of his actions, he gouged his own eyes out." Panel 2: Three people next to one another. The one in the middle behind the others has no eyes as blood trails from the empty sockets. The other two in the foreground seem to hold up one of the missing eyes each to their own eyes. Text appears on their arms, reading, "My sister Ismene and I became his eyes. For him she saw good. For him, I
  • Page 8 Panel 1: Two hands dig in the dirt, one with a hand trowel. Text reads, "I play my role exquisitely." Panel 2: A hand slowly releases seeds. Text reads, "I bury the polynices." Panel 3: A group of statues and traditional paintings of faces all blur into one another. Text reads, "It's not just polynices. Depending on how you look at this wretched corpse, it's Eteocles. From another angle, it's my mother. It's my father." Panel 4: A woman wearing a cloak with a hood appears anxious, looking directly at
  • Page 10 Panel 1: Letters appear over text over stone. "I mm Ure D: buried alive." Panel 2: An abstract illustration of the woman looking at a pile of stones inside a carve with stalagmites and stalactites. Text reads, "A burial of the most vivid sorts. This is what I came for. My life was my father's, my brother's, even Haemon's. But my death is my own." Panel 3: The woman cries, her face illustrated in line art showing only her hair and eyes, while the bottom part of her body is a traditional painting with
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Jaime Mosquera

Death’s Bridal Chamber

Death’s Bridal Chamber

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A collage retelling of the tragedy of Antigone

Based off of multiple translations of the tragedy of Antigone, this comic blends collage and the horror of knowing your own fate to revisit her grave

14 pages

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Jaime Mosquera

Jaime Mosquera (he/they) is Latine horror artist who enjoys combining horror with queerness and phantasmagoria. He is based in New Jersey and has been featured on Quindrie Press, Gender Terror, Videodame, and Good Comics' Dead Singers Society. He is currently represented by Jas Perry at Looking Glass Literary.

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