Adele Henning
LORA
“When it comes to storytelling, I usually pull from my personal experiences and stylize them until I almost can’t recognize them. …I feel as though the more honest I am in my work, the stronger it is. I hope that someone else can identify with the narratives I explore as well, for no single experience is ever isolated to one person. Honesty in art helps us to feel less alone.”
—ADELE HENNING
Adele Henning, also known as Hink, is a Chicago based comic artist, street artist, and creature femme.
Currently a student at Columbia College Chicago, her self-published work can be found in shops around the city, indie publications, and in comic expos ranging from TCAF to SPX. Her work explores identity, mental illness, and the angst of the everyday through the application of monstrous imagery. Her most recent project is her 50 page self-published comic LORA, which is a psychedelic, coming of age story that questions what growing up means to those socialized as teen girls.
LORA is a psychedelic, coming of age comic about two antisocial best friends, Lora and Sara, who live in a world full of monsters. The two are inseparable and vaguely codependent, mostly keeping between themselves, watching cartoons, making art, and living relatively sheltered lives. Though nothing is blatantly wrong, Lora begins to feel as though she’s outgrown her ‘juvenile’ lifestyle and develops an insatiable need to feel grown up. Not really knowing where to start, and heavily influenced by the media she consumes, she feels as though her road to maturity could only ever be discovered through a tumultuous romance. LORA examines the messages our society sends to young people, especially those socialized as teenage girls, that they must strive for a sense of tragedy in order to reach adulthood.
artist contact information
Website:
https://www.hink.club
Instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/hinkstink