Changeling: an Urban Fairytale

Changeling: an Urban Fairytale is one of the three initial launch titles for the Mythoverse shared comic universe. Changeling focuses on its protagonist Maeve MacKenzie , a fourteen-year-old girl from Aberdeen, Washington, who discovers that she is in fact a changeling (A fae infant exchanged for a human one). This is distressing for Maeve as coming from a Christian household, she now has a heritage that is at odds with her upbringing and must figure out how to reconcile the two while figuring where her place in the world is.

Development

Changeling initially spun out of an unused story idea that its creator Brett McGowan had for a supernatural noir title that never moved past development. In it, there was a character named Maeve who was a changeling, but shared very little in common with the Maeve people would come to know. (Aside from the name) Liking the name, Brett retooled the character concept around 2017 and launched Changeling: An Urban Fairytale, though the road to production would come with its issues as Brett had to go through one artist before being introduced to Victor Campan who would become Changeling’s line artist. GingerFoxy would join shortly thereafter as the book’s colorist. The most recent member to be added to book’s production team is letterer Jesse Clark as of Issue 2.

Changeling pulls chiefly from two sources inspiration-wise; Celtic mythology/folklore and Brett’s experiences growing up in Christian household and the Church.