Ocean Child is a painted horror comic that uses loose brushwork reminiscent of impressionism to portray dreamlike and horrific situations. Using these painterly methods suggests that the uncanny moments that occur in the story are beyond the characters’ comprehension. The story is Inspired by the accidental horror she finds in scientific illustration, the biological phenomenon of a whalefall, and the contrasting types of psychological and eldritch horror in H.P. Lovecraft’s The Shadow Over Innsmouth.