Blueprint Magazine has released the march issue with the theme of “Roots”. You can read the magazine for free on their website.

The idea for a strip revolving around “roots” was taken a bit more literally on the concept stage. At first I considered doing something based around the dwarves of Hellmouth and their “Birthstones”. The Birthstones for the dwarves are considered to be part of the Roots of Yggdrasil, the World-Tree. After pondering how to do a half-page strip story revolving around a concept that connected a stone to a tree… I figured I’d start over with something more within the universal subconscious.

That took me to taking a look at the myth of the dryad on Hellmouth and how they treat and deal with death. The subtext of the strip was the actual intended concept I wanted to get across. Not so much a “hippie thing” as something that suggests we all live on an Earth that gives us sustenance even as we take it away to progress as a species. A balance is something worth considering, instead of being ignorant to. If the Earth goes… we go.