Croneville Carnival Oracle Deck
Journey into the hauntingly beautiful world of the crone
Do you wish you could see your future1? I often do. I wonder:
Will I be healthy into my 80s and 90s?
Will I even live that long?
Will I be the last one alive in my generation?
Who will take care of me if I need help, since I have no children?
Will my cat outlive me?
ComicDonna, my alter-ego and the protagonist in Croneville Carnival, wants to know her future too. She’s not satisfied with the information she finds in the media and self-help books about getting older. She doesn’t want platitudes or pablum. She wants realistic ideas about how to accept her aging and mortality with grace and fortitude.
So I’ve created an oracle deck just for her to use as she journeys into her crone power. Every month she’ll draw cards for a reading to lead her into the next chapter of the story.
We’ll be kicking the story off this month with the first reading and a look into what caused ComicDonna to start freaking out about becoming a crone.
Of course, the future is not something we can see in the same way we can see the past. It is our job as creatives to imagine a better future and use our writing and art to give the builders a roadmap for creating it.
Croneville Carnival Table of Contents
This post will be updated each time I add to Croneville Carnival. The serialized graphic novel alternates between oracle card spreads from the Croneville Oracle Deck I’ve created and chapters in the comic story. There are also occasional behind-the-scenes bonus posts that are not part of the graphic novel.
Donna, society in general just don’t talk women + aging enough, so I’m so glad you’re bringing it up in a way I can relate to - comics and comedy, creatively.
What a. Fascinating approach to directing each chapter. I can’t wait to read and also see the oracle cards. Did you know crones are listed as “in” this year by6 the Washington Post? We waited this long to be cool.