Lilith Dark

See? It was all just pretend. Lilith was just having some fun with her dog, Kitty.

Lilith Dark started out with a series of self contained shorts that built up to a larger narrative over time, and this is the first of them. In my mind, Lilith Dark starts out a bit like Usagi Yojimbo, which also began as a series of self contained shorts. Now don’t get me wrong, I’m no Stan Sakai, but his work definitely had an impact on me. Oddly enough, I was first introduced to Usagi Yojimbo via the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cartoon in the ’90s.

Lilith Dark is full of scares and big freaky monsters, and I wanted to set the tone right from the get go. One of the things I loved growing up was watching scary old horror movies on the local UHF channel on Saturday afternoons. It’s fun to be scared! I wanted Lilith to be the sort of kid who faces her fears. She not only faces them, she looks them right in the face and barks.