Queen of Crows

The first appearance of The Queen of Crows was in the Hopeless, Maine tarot set. She arrived simply because crows are a suit, and Tom decided to base the image on me. This led me to wanting to make up some Queen of Crows material, so now there’s a song and she features as a character in this year’s Ominous Folk show.

This is the version of me as The Queen of Crows that we’re using on posters for the show – art by Tom Brown.

And here’s my actual face, with some facepaint. I look far more tired in real life than I do in the illustrations. Tom is kind to me when he draws me. I thought it would be amusing to mess about with some face painting.

When you are broken,

The queen of crows will come to you

The shattered last remains of you

And all the empty places will be feathers.