Each issue of Oh Comely, we take great pleasure in inviting a Guest Illustrator onto the team. They work on a series of original briefs fitting the theme of the issue, and bring their unique aestheitc to Oh Comely's pages. 

Issue 27, out now, is no different. Themed on 'Body' it was always going to be a challenge to find an illustrator who explored this most sensitive of subjects in an unexpected and canny way. In the hands of illustrator Marie Gardeski, reader, you're in for a treat. 

Based in Fort Wayne, Indiana, Marie's work is subversive, humuorous and always unexpected. Think Beatrice Potter after dark. Over her four hand-drawn illustrations, she takes us right back to the days of childhood, exploring how toys and dolls become assembled in the mix-and-match imagination of childhood. Her fleshy characters take on personalities that are larger than life and all the more stranger. 

Read our full interview with Marie Gardeski, and see her Oh Comely illustrations in issue 27, out now.