The envious siblings : and other morbid nursery rhymes / Landis Blair.
Material type: TextPublisher: New York, NY : W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., [2019]Edition: First editionDescription: 232 pages : illustrations ; 19 cmContent type:- text
- still image
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780393651621
- 0393651622
Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Adult Book | Main Library | Graphic Novel | Blair, Landis | Checked out | 05/30/2024 | 33111010470645 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Inspired by the dark imagination of Edward Gorey, Envious Siblings is a twisted and hauntingly funny debut. Comics artist Landis Blair interweaves absurdist horror and humor into brief, rhyming vignettes at once transgressive and hilarious. In Blair's surreal universe, a lost child watches as bewhiskered monsters gobble up her fellow train passengers; a band of kids merrily plays a gut- churning game with playground toys; and two sisters, grinning madly, tear each other apart. These charmingly perverse creations take ordinary settings-- a living room, a subway car, a playground-- and spin them in a nightmarish direction.
The malicious playground -- My suspicious sister -- The envious siblings -- The refinement tree -- The awful underground -- Honourable beasts -- Grounded -- Danse macabre.