2000 AD Covers Uncovered: Marguerite Sauvage Brings Style to her Roxy Cover
24th July 2024
Every week, 2000 AD brings you the galaxy’s greatest artwork and 2000 AD Covers Uncovered takes you behind-the-scenes with the headline artists responsible for our top cover art – but right now we’re headed away from scintillating sci-fi to take you into the realms of romance with ROXY!
One of the three cover artists for this new contemporary romance anthology designed to get your heart racing is the incredible Marguerite Sauvage whose cover is just the loveliest love letter to romance comics…
Named after the classic British romance comic that launched in 1958 and ran for some 288 weekly issues, this new version of Roxy brings all the glorious romance, every furtive glance, and every chaste kiss of the originals and brings it very much into the now, with a love-struck anthology of four very modern romance tales to inspire a new generation.
The new 80-page Roxy can be yours in digital, paperback, or hardcover, fit to make your heart burst with four tales of romance, love, and even a little lust from some of the best storytellers in comics…
There’s a brand new supermodel heist thriller from Dracula, Motherf**ker power couple Alex de Campi and Erica Henderson. We’ve got a spirited walk in the undead woods from artist-writer Sarah Gordon (Vicious Creatures). GLAAD & Eisner-nominated writer Magdalene Visaggio and Sterric (De Vloek van Rood) take us on a trip back in time to the regency era, and we blast into futuristic romance with a tale of love between man and mech courtesy of Nadia Shammas (Squire, Ms. Marvel) and Jaws Stone (Dames Zine: Magical Knights).
And all this under any one of three incredible covers from Tula Lotay, Hannah Templer, and Marguerite Sauvage.
First up, here’s a little from Marguerite on romance comics along with art from her beautiful wraparound cover…
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MARGUERITE SAUVAGE: Romance comics right now are a thing and that’s pretty obvious in graphic novels, Mangas or on Webtoon for example.
This genre should spread in its new form more and more within the classic comics industry, losing the archaic cliché of being looked down on as ‘feminine’ and ‘retrograde’.
Emotions and feelings, are a big part of everyone’s everyday life and now that we have a more inclusive and progressive non-binary vision of what romance could be, it’s full of potential.
The Roxy anthology totally understands and embraces this new definition of romance, and I enjoyed being called to work on a cover for it!
Also, this cover is a big opportunity to bring back my skills as a fashion and editorial illustrator, my first career before moving to comics, so that was a thrill to illustrate on this theme: I love drawing people who have style!
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Thanks to Marguerite for that – her cover is just absolutely gorgeous and a real window into the sort of vibe Roxy represents – passionate, inclusive, romantic, and bringing the spirit of classic British romance comics into the 21st century and beyond!
Roxy is raising funds for publication right now on Kickstarter – pledge like your heart depends on it!
And as a special treat… let’s go in super close to really get the most out of Marguerite’s art here…
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