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Graphic Novel Illustrator and Writer
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In 2017, Mina Lima redefined how myth lives on the page when she hand-lettered and illustrated 'The Selkie’s Bargain', a graphic novel where every panel’s linework echoes Celtic knotwork, and the colour palette shifts with each tide cycle to mirror the protagonist’s dual nature. Unlike peers who lean into digital flatness, Lima insists on mixed-media textures: scanned ink washes, gold-leaf accents, and hand-stitched binding prototypes appear in her sketchbooks long before publication. Her 2022 Tate Modern residency wasn’t about displaying finished work but inviting visitors to co-draw border motifs from Norse, West African, and Romani oral traditions, revealing how myth migrates not through plot alone, but through material gesture. She refuses to separate writing from mark-making; dialogue balloons are shaped like cracked clay tablets in 'Echoes of Orpheus', and speech rhythms sync to the cadence of spoken Cornish revival recordings. This isn’t illustration *of* myth, it’s myth made tactile, legible, and stubbornly local.
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- “How did your research in Cornish folklore shape the visual grammar of 'The Selkie’s Bargain'?”
- “Why do you use actual gold leaf instead of metallic inks for divine figures?”
- “What’s the story behind the stitched binding prototype in your Tate residency?”
- “How do you translate oral storytelling rhythms into panel layout and lettering?”