Masha Zotova is a Rotterdam based illustrator. Originally she came to the Netherlands to study graphic design but during the first year she realized that it wasn’t quite for her and comics were the crucial part of that transition. She used (and still uses) the medium as a diary and a way to process emotions and life changes.
Depicting her stories drawing herself as a character she felt more and more confident in the visual storytelling and the freedom it offers. Since then her visual language has taken many forms and changed into a more fluid narrative, where illustrations, text and story flows through the pages without necessarily being held by boxes and panels.
“It’s nice to look back at my years at the Academy and realise how much those first few comics defined me as an illustrator I am today. I am currently working on a comic book about goblins, a page of which you can see submitted below.”
