(Content warning) Slishy Slasher Concepts
A drawing depicting a woman wearing a polka dotted skirt and long brimmed hat. her long jointed arms outstretch to direct suit wearing arms carrying straight razors which tear apart puppets obscured by bloody cartoon hearts. She babbles gibberish.
Friend Sick, Jayne Prell, 2023
Some of Jayne Prell’s earliest work of the Slishy Slasher, the second image being a compiled page of digital doodles. As you can see here, these works are intensely violent, the Slishy Slasher depicted with barbaric intentions towards her victims and truly earning her name. These pictures are notable for the variation in how she is depicted character design wise. This was the moment Jayne started experimenting with art styles other than classic rubber hose, leaning into UPA.
It’s here that we can get the barest hints of the characters personality as well. Are these depictions of how Jayne felt towards those around her? Signs of a darker nature? Well, no. From what we can tell from her notes this was a depiction of how Jayne felt about her relationships—how she felt she was interacting with and ruining them. As such these drawings are more of a depiction of how she felt she was butchering any connections she had with others rather than an expression of malice. The puppets were also mentioned to be an expression of how she felt like a puppet trapped in her household, and the Slishy Slasher butchering them being a form of self harm. Paradoxically The Slasher and her Victims are both representations of Jayne Prell.
Friendship killer, Jayne Prell, 2023