Animal Noir
an anthology
11 hard-boiled crimes featuring a cast of memorable anthropomorphic animals.
New Growl has always had too much crime. From the 20s until its inevitable collapse, eleven authors are exposing the city's seedy underbelly.
The upper echelon, the lower class, and all of the animals in between have their share of problems. Some hire the private detectives or jet to a private island to escape, while others are the ones on-call and in the trenches.
It's familiar, it's different, it's Animal Noir.
*Stories by Angelique O'Rourke, A.P. Howell, Ben Curl, Beth Cook, Camden Rose, Elad Haber, H.L. Fullerton, M Shedric Simpson, Megan Lee Bees, Pen Anderson, and Phoenix Bourgeois. / Illustrations and edits by Elizabeth Mitchell
The cover is made up of individual paper collage animals. After they were put together, I made risograph prints of them.
But the before is pretty great too (if I do say so myself).
The authors listened to some ambient sound/music as they wrote. Here are some of their favorites!
the authors are artists too!
The star of my little story in Animal Noir, Ian.
— Pen Anderson (@pensiv.art) February 24, 2026 at 1:46 PM
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