The Wolves of Vendôme
A disfigured American fighter pilot in 1920s Paris stages a surreal theatrical operation to punish the traitors who destroyed his face and identity, and at the same time stop them from initiating WWII.
Concept art for a graphic novel. Hand-drawn in pencil, scanned and digitally colored in Adobe Photoshop.
My main characters: former French Foreign Legion pilot, Sous-Lieutenant Richard Henry Louvois and his teenage kid sister Henrietta Anna Maria Louvois.
The symbol designed by Richard to represent his underground army of "Watching Wolves" - mutilés de guerre like himself, waging an underground war against spies concealed in the highest echelons of power in the French government and the dawning threat of Nazism.
The design is inspired by the stone rebus used by the Marquis de Louvois to "sign" his name on the roofs of the Hôtel des Invalides in Paris.
Scenes of aerial "dogfights" from Richard's time as a pilot in World War I. His plane is the silver Nieuport 11, on the right in both images.
