How Loathsome #1
"Catherine" in How Loathsome #1 (2003) presents a haunting, atmospheric tale of grief and memory, following a young girl named Catherine as she endures the quiet tragedies of losing her sister Lillian and then her father in a remote, isolated home. Written and illustrated by Ted Naifeh and Tristan Crane, with both artists sharing inking and lettering duties, the story unfolds with a delicate, melancholic precision, grounded in the emotional weight of loss and the lingering presence of the past. The cover by Tristan Crane and Ted Naifeh captures the story’s somber tone, hinting at the quiet horror that lives just beneath the surface of a child’s world.
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A young version of Catherine is growing up in a one room shack with her widower father and her golden-haired sister Lillian. The adventurous Lillian gets lost in the wood one night, and once found sickens and dies. Catherine is haunted by a ghostly vision of Lillian, and when her father gives her his cross necklace, he, too, wastes away and dies.
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