When Soo-jin’s parents are murdered, she uses her martial arts training and her beauty to find out who was behind their deaths.

Pigtails is a martial arts, action-adventure starring Soo-jin Kang, a 22-year-old Korean woman starting a career in Chicago. Her story of love, loss, and redemption in this first issue will be told in black-and-white across 22 pages. 

I wrote the 3-issue series based on an idea my wife had, and this Kickstarter is to help get the first issue printed (with 2 variant covers) and provide some compensation to the AMAZING artist, Ming Wang. Besides the interior art, he also did the 2 black-and-white covers! Ming’s ability to convey deep emotion with simple techniques convinced me he was perfect to illustrate Soo-jin’s journey without needing color.  

I’ve also teamed up with the wonderful artist Janet Lee (Lost Vegas, Return of the Dapper Men, various Marvel comics) to provide a fun variant cover! I’ve followed her work for a number of years and knew she could deliver a variant to fit the theme and atmosphere of Pigtails.