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Illustrated Stories & Comics
D.B. Williams
Illustrated books, surreal comics, and visual storytelling
I create strange, hand drawn illustrated books that sit between comics, art books, and surreal visual storytelling. My work uses dense black-and-white linework, loose sketching, dreamlike narration, deadpan humor, and odd characters.
Book One: The Guest House No. 1
The Guest House No. 1
Illustrated comic / art book
Approx. 85 pages
Black, white, gray, with occasional color images
The Guest House is a strange, delirious illustrated book, somewhere between a comic, an art book, and a fever dream. Set at the front desk of an old hotel, the book follows a night clerk whose thoughts unravel under the glow of moonlight. Through dark hallways, odd guests, cracked pavement, and unstable declarations of love, pain, God, and fertilizer, the reader is pulled into a world that feels funny, eerie, unsettling, and strangely tender.
At approximately 85 illustrated pages, the book combines traditional comic panels, full-page drawings, black, white, and gray artwork, and occasional color pages.
Book Two: The Strange Destination
The Strange Destination
Illustrated Story
Full-page illustrations with text on facing pages
Approx. 80 pages
Black-and-white interior
Surreal journey / ghost city
A small lizard steps into a ghost city and never turns back. His journey carries him down lamplit boulevards, through traffic-choked freeways, onto a gliding train full of nameless figures, and through doors that seem to open on their own. Along the way, he meets friendly nobodies and peculiar strangers, catching glimpses of sorrow at the edges of the spectacle.
Rendered in a dense black-and-white world that feels both playful and uncanny, this illustrated story blends deadpan humor, mystery, and quiet transformation. Told through richly detailed illustrations and spare text, the book invites readers into motion, mystery, and one strange, beautiful destination after another.
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