As part of their Fall 2025 line-up, Avery Hill Publishing plans to release Donya Todd’s new graphic novel, The Witch’s Egg — and you can help bring it to life through a Kickstarter campaign that will launch soon.
The Witch’s Egg is one part dark fairytale, one part apocalyptic love story, featuring the macabre, wonderful art of Todd. This is Avery Hill’s second book with Todd, following Buttertubs. Todd has also done work for Cartoon Network, Mercury Filmworks, Blank Slate Books, Guillemot Press, Image Comics and many others.
You can check out the publisher’s description and some pages from the graphic novel below.
It was a spiderweb moon
And the imps did wonder
What dark delights wouldst the cat-witch conjure
By the Sardine Queen, by salt and the devil, by blackwormy earth, and by the deep, dark sea, the catwitch Urfi conjures an angel to love her and have children with her. But angels aren’t meant for love, and with the embryonic egg of their unborn children, Urfi flees from her partner’s violence, enduring terrible trials to find a new and safe home in the faery forest.
As her children, Isobel, Batzel and Mazel, grow up with her, they find the horrors their mother endured during her flight to the forest returning to their lives — this time for the three of them to defeat for good. With secret magic, solemn bonds of friendship, and sisterhood, they can at last stand against the threat of the angels’ terror and insanity in this dark fairytale of motherhood, magic, and apocalyptic romance.
Donya Todd makes weird and wonderful illustration inspired by the magical, mystical, and macabre. She is a prophet-poet of the otherworld with visions of apocalyptic romance in a twisted glittery future. She has worked with Cartoon Network, Mercury Filmworks, Blank Slate Books, Avery Hill, Guillemot Press, Image Comics, Blackwater Studios, Foyles, House of Illustration, Ekidna, Cicada Magazine, Samsung, Tatty Divine, the band Tuneyards, and many more. She has received the AOI newcomers prize, the Earl Richards Narrative Prize in 2009 and an Outstanding Achievement in Illustration in 2018.
