Kamila Krol is a queer Polish illustrator and comics artist based in Wales. Her playful imagery is often inspired by dreams and folklore, with much of her work focused on reviving and re-imagining elements of her Slavic heritage. She’s the author of an award-winning graphic novel Rusalka: Whispers of the Forest and created artwork for clients including ReedPop, Discord Comics, Lucent Dreaming and Beneficial Shock. 

She's currently working on a graphic novella Ecstasy of Jenny D, exploring themes of religious trauma, sisterhood and queerness. 

General work enquiries:

pigeonmakesart@gmail.com

Represented by:

James Spackman | BKS Agency

CLIENT WORK FOR

  • I was approached by the ReedPOP Team to design the first fully illustrated event map for the 2024 MCM x EGX comicon. In 2025, I have worked with them again on an array of assets for the show map and the official app.

  • In 2024, we had a loose visual prompt of a fantasy adventuring party, on which I based the map design.

    In 2025, the visual theme was “summer festival”. Based on this I selected a vibrant colour palette and created quirky characters and features to illustrate each area of the show.

  • For the 2025 “summer festival” theme I also created bespoke banners for the Fan Hub on the official MCM map.

    I also worked on icons and 9 unique character designs, which were used in the mobile games available during the show.

Artist Alley illustration from 2024 (left) and 2025 (right).

Above: characters designed for the personality quiz mobile game in the official MCM app. Below: Illustrated map for the London MCM show 2024.

COVER ART

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Cover of the award-winning graphic novel about the Slavic water demon Rusalka, first published by Strangers Publishing. Written and illustrated by Kamila Krol. Forest scene, digital art, girl with a flowing green hair.
Dark Welsh folk horror comics by Afterlight Comics. Woman floating in the water. Half of her body is a skeleton, the other half is green and surreal. Butterfly flies over the surface of the lake.
Cover design for a comics anthology magazine from Third Bear Press by Kamila Krol (Pigeon). Lonely woman in a white dress stands in a big empty gothic corridor. Tall windows cast light onto the floor.
Jude is a YA queer fantasy novel by Elin Heron, with a cover and illustrations by Kamila Krol. A contemporary story with elements of mythology, Green Man myth. A caravan in the woods with glowing lights.

COMICS

Author-illustrator publications and comics illustrated for client’s script

Cover of the award-winning graphic novel about the Slavic water demon Rusalka, first published by Strangers Publishing. Written and illustrated by Kamila Krol. Forest scene, digital art, girl with a flowing green hair.

Rusalka: Whispers of the Forest - Cover Art

Comic page from a graphic novel by Kamila Krol (Pigeon), showing the water nymph Rusalka swimming underwater. Magical folk tale scene, woman with long green hair, swimming and dancing among water lilies and leaves.

Rusalka: Whispers of the Forest - Comic Page

  • Coming in summer 2025!

    Original graphic novella described as Bridgerton meets the dancing plague. The story follows sisters Jenny and Paloma Duval, as their rocky journey into womanhood might require some divine intervention.

  • “Rusalka - Whispers of the Forest” is a story exploring identity, belonging and control, set in the world of Slavic mythology.

    The book received the Broken Frontier Award in the Breakout Talent category (2024) and was nominated as the Best Polish Comic at MFKiG (2024).

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  • “Pygmalion” is an original short comic published in the BOXES anthology. It follows young Ava as she’s led by Gran into a strange coming of age ritual, which becomes more disturbing with each step they take down the long stairway…

    Publisher: Third Bear Press, 2024

    Editor: Steven Ingram

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  • A short folk horror comic written by Laurence Alison for the Madness and Monsters anthology (2024).

    This re-telling of the classic fairy tale creates a disturbing metaphor of power imbalance.

  • Imagine what would happen if Marie Antoinette rebelled against the stuffy world of Versailles, signed a contract with a seductive demoness and…joined the revolution?

    Short original comic created for the award-winning Let Her Be Evil anthology.

    Editor: Cassandra Joness | Lettering: Taylor Esposito

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  • Rusalka - Part 1 is Kamila’s debut self-published comic. Since being funded in 3 hours through a Kickstarter campaign, Rusalka was published in English and Polish version. It was awarded in 2022 by the Polish Comics Association in the Best Debut category and received the Polish Indie Comics Award. 

    It invites the reader to join Rusalka - a mythical Slavic water demon - in her dark journey of self-discovery, as she finds herself in an ancient Forest and tries to put together her own fragmented memories.

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Red Hood and Wolf - Comic Page

Short comic Pygmalion. Gothic black and white comic page. Regal old woman talks to a beautiful young girl. Art nouveau style with art deco. Chamber, bodoir setting.

Let Her Eat Cake - Comic Page

Pygmalion - Comic Page

ILLUSTRATION

Freelance illustration projects for various clients and self-initiated projects.

Mythical Medusa as a powerful gorgon. Mythology illustration, horror comics, cool female demon, hair of snakes, glowing eyes, limited colour palette, comic cover, art print.
T-shirt design and official branding for a Welsh folk band Ophelia's Beard. Pagan, art nouveau lady with braids, floral crown, groovy 60s lettering
Slavic Sapphics. LGBTQ+ Polish folklore illustration with two women holding hands and folk patterns around them. Floral, colourful, romantic, stylised.
Slavic folklore illustration of Kupala Night. Sapphic couple, fern flower, night, moonlight. Mythology in digital art. Floral wreath
Digital illustration referencing the Kiss by Gustav Klimt. Folk clothing, sapphic couple, two women embracing wearing Polish traditional shirts and skirts. Valentines couple portrait, stylised image.