Tea Party is a dark comedy picture book dummy themed around feminine
horror and twisted nostalgia. It centers around five friends gathering for a tea party who drop dead one by one. The party seemed sweet at first, but it was all a trap. The darkness in the story builds slowly as the book progresses, so as to sneak up on the reader and the characters at the same time. The colors and
mood of the story reflect this, beginning with soft pastels which slowly become hazed in a murky green tone as the events unfold. The text is a twist on the Five Little Monkeys nursery rhyme, inspired by the rhyme’s unsettling
undertones and childlike themes.
Tea party is a 32-page picture book dummy that measures 8.5×11″. The dummy contains a finished front cover, back cover, and title page, plus two
finished interior illustrations; The color is an important storytelling device that is key to understanding the ending; so the remaining pages consist of loosely- colored sketches. The Tea Party concept also manifested in different forms throughout the semester, including a more comedy-based animatic storyboard. Enjoy :)