Peach Momoko’s work has been my computer background for almost a year now. Her work is magical and ethereal and bloody and unsettling in the most captivating way.
I’d say she’s certainly one of the most in-demand cover variant artists right now. But most importantly, her delicate, creative, and creepy art style makes her the perfect person to kick off The Long Halloween– a month-long celebration of comic’s best scary (and funny!) content.
Peach Momoko is best known for her variant cover art, which earned her a 2021 Eisner Award for Best Cover Artist. As a graduate member of the 2020 class of Marvel Stormbreakers, Momoko has done a ton of Marvel-related projects over the past few years. However, her start in erotic art and passion for tattooing, and horror combined with a classic Ghibli influence blurs the artistic lines between scary, soft, and sexy.
Although her work is best known for variant cover work, Momoko also has a series from Marvel out right now that reimagines the Civil War arc into an inter-dimensional battle that shapes Marvel heroes into creatures reminiscent of Japanese folklore.
Demon Wars: The Iron Samurai #1 is available now, and the next installment of the story Demon Wars: Shield of Justice #1 releases next month.
She often plays with space and the visual concepts of eternity and morality, with plays on color, light, and delicate features. Stars, hands, eyes, and blood often feature or accent her work, especially when used to visualize these intangible concepts. This causes a fantastical feeling of discontent and unsettling vibes, which help push forward the story and hold the reader’s attention.
Eyes, knives, and peeling flesh are also interspersed in her work. As a terrible artist, I can never get the eyes right. But Momoko is so talented, her eyeballs look squishy and wet and that’s so gross to say, but an absolute testament to her talents, especially when you realize they’re done in a watercolor style.
Another thing unique about Momoko’s style is based off that use of watercolors. Watercolor painting relies heavily on the texture of the paper to help develop the shadows and texture of the artwork. In today’s modern art world, paper has gone very much by the wayside, in favor of digital drawing materials. Peach Momoko’s dedication to the classic pair art style helps to set her apart from the crowd and honors the tradition of artistic creation.
Peach Momoko’s art both captivates me and creeps me out. And that’s a pretty hard thing to accomplish without making someone uncomfortable. And while I do love her bloody best, this soft collection of starry artwork is my current computer background.
Her ability to switch between styles has made Peach Momoko my number one favorite artist right now, and top of my list for “dream original art I’d like to own, even if it’s a doodle on a napkin”.
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