lolita and other works by augustine martinez: lolita first issue, to be published by arcana comics

was pretty stoked when i got the email from sean o'reilly, head guy and editor of arcana comics, saying that he wanted to publish the first issue. it's always been my dream to be in comics; me and my two best friends growing up shared it, and we would spend hours writing and drawing our own ideas for comic book characters. funny how things turned out for the three of us: one of them is now a law student; the other an accountant. and me... i'm still thirteen, dreaming up stories.

this first idea of mine is, in a one sentence nutsell of a pitch, is about a thirteen-year-old girl assassin at the top of the killing game who has a very playful view of her work and who even experiences her first tastes of sexual stirrings killing peple. the comic book isn't supposed to be pervy, though it may seem like it. it's supposed to be a challenge on perception and the traditional ways people see the ordinary - in this case, a young girl. it's supposed to be a statement, and shock value, the idea and the image of a sociopathic thirteen-year-old girl killing people and enjoying it, is one of the loudest statements an artist can make.

Short Pitch for Lolita:

Claudia is a thirteen-year-old assassin, code-named the Black Cherub, who does her work with no emotion like a doll; a puppet on a string. But things change when someone alters her nightly drugs which suppress her childlike exuberance and even impede her menstrual cycle. And now, she is no longer a doll with no emotion… but a psychopath who enjoys and experiences her first sexual stirrings killing.