Inktober 16: Loki from Vei.
“Loki is beautiful and comely to look upon, evil in spirit, very fickle in habit. He surpassed other men in that wisdom which is called 'sleight,' and had artifices for all occasions; he would ever bring the Æsir into great hardships, and then get them out with crafty counsel.”
The Prose Edda, translated by Arthur Gilchrist Brodeur, 1916.
This version of Loki comes from the graphic novel Vei by Sara Bergmark Elfgren and Karl Johnsson. Their Loki is neither male nor female. Rather, they appear as either male or female, and young or old, as they please. The authors don’t follow the myths exactly (they make Loki a child of Odin, for example, though his parents in the myths are Farbaute and Laufey), but it’s one of my favorite depictions of Loki.
