Summer Hotchkiss

Summer Hotchkiss is a Canadian illustrator who specializes in digital and traditional painting. She enjoys using vibrant colour and vivid brushstrokes to depict form and character. She Her
work visualizes unconventional narratives through her comics, conceptual works, and storybook illustrations.

Sometimes a Great Notion

A 16-page graphic novel adaptation of pages 169-189 of Ken Kesey’s novel Sometimes a Great Notion. The comic illustrates Kesey’s representation of fistfights, duty, and masculinity.

The Man Downstairs

An 18-page artbook for a multiplayer CRPG-style game. The game is soft sci-fi with a larger focus on political elements, and tells the story of two young men and their attempt to escape a panopticon-style prison.

Mars is Heaven

A digitally illustrated storybook adaptation of Ray Bradbury’s short story “Mars is Heaven!” (also known as “The Third Expedition”). Bradbury’s story follows a team of Earthmen who land on the planet Mars and are ultimately brought to their deaths by means of advanced warfare or possibly a telekinetic delusion.