Rachel Terwilliger, also known across local festivals and events as Rachelillustrates, received a CAP Strategic Opportunity Stipend (SOS) to help publish the first volume of her LGBTQIA+ focused, Faerie/fantasy adventure romance comic, “Tock the Gnome.”

Follow Tock, a Gnome woman from a steampunk-society in a realm of high fantasy, as she finds herself in such a situation. Driven by a Fairy Tale about a trapped Elven princess on a floating island, she convinces her friend Bumble – an airship pilot – to join her quest to rescue her. They hire extra firepower from unfamiliar lands, and together they seek the island and the princess. But what they seek may not be quite what they expected...

Beyond this beginning, Tock's story utilizes the themes of fairy tales and the popularity of the fantasy genre to address and explore problems of self-regard after...  Read more