Tallulah Blais

Tallulah is an Ottawa-based illustrator who loves narrative illustration in all its forms. She loves to work in game design, storyboarding, comics, and traditional publishing. Inspired by nature, Tallulah often depicts this theme in her work.

Red

A visual novel game following Little Red Riding Hood to her grandmother’s house. But all is not as it seems in the heart of the woods.

Play the game here

Stories of People and Places

Five posters illustrate the stories of places that have shaped Tallulah.

In “La Chasse-Galerie,” a story from Québec, where her father is from, a group of lumberjacks make a deal with the Devil on New Year’s Eve to visit their families in a bewitched canoe.

“Dlouhý, Široký a Bystrozraký,” or “Long, Stout, and Sharpeyes,” from the Czech Republic, where her mother is from, tells of a prince who must travel the world to rescue his bride from an evil wizard and meets some strange companions along the way.

“L’escalade,” or “The Climb,” from Geneva, Switzerland, where Tallulah briefly lived, is of a Mère Royaume, who is alerted of an enemy attack late one December night in 1602. Using what she has, she defends her city. With soup.

“Akikpautik,”also known as the Chaudière Falls in Ottawa, the city Tallulah is from. The Algonquins believe the falls are the first sacred tobacco pipe gifted to Wisakedjak by their Creator.

In “The Ghost of Watson’s Mill” from Manotick, a village in Ottawa where Tallulah lives, the gruesome death of Ann Crosby Currier at the mill in 1861 haunts the shores of the river.

Paranoia

The first two chapters of a seven-chapter horror comic. How do you deal with your paranoia when it seems so real? What if something really is lurking where you can’t quite see?

The Sundial Garden

Storybook illustrations based on an excerpt from the fantasy novel Priory of an Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon.

It Takes One to Know One

A one-page comic template based on a phrase.