Synopses & Reviews
With appearances in such anthologies as , and , Stéphane Blanquet has been delighting and terrifying American readers with his superslick, ultradetailed creepiness. So it makes perfect sense that his first graphic novel to be published in the U.S. would be... a children's book? Yes indeed. Our hero, attending a Halloween party in an embarrassing pink bunny costume (he wanted to he a pirate) stumbles across a secret society of damaged, forgotten, and pissed-off toys in the basement of his friend's house--including the terrifying Amélie, not an adorable gamine played by Audrey Tautou but a towering sentient assemblage of broken toy parts out for revenge! Imagine as reimagined by David Lynch and Charles Burns and you'll have a good idea of what this story is like. And yes, it for kids!
Review
"A warped mash-up of and ... The bright colors, jagged panels and irregular lettering make for a hallucinogenic experience, as if you're lurching through a lurid nightmare during an intense fever." Eleanor Goodman
Review
"This slim graphic novel is nominally for children, but the art of the Frenchman Blanquet takes a children's story to an unexpected level.... This surrealist book by writer-artist Blanquet brings to the young reader a simple message: retribution will come, and you never know from which side." Bizarre
Synopsis
So it makes perfect sense that his first graphic novel to be published in the U.S. would be a children s book? Yes indeed Our hero, attending a Halloween party in an embarrassing pink bunny costume (he wanted to he a pirate) stumbles across a secret society of damaged, forgotten, and pissed-off toys in the basement of his friend s house including the terrifying Amelie, not an adorable gamine played by Audrey Tautou but a towering sentient assemblage of broken toy parts out for revenge ImagineToy Story as reimagined by David Lynch and Charles Burns and you ll have a good idea of what this story is like. And yes, it is for kids "
Synopsis
Our hero, attending a Halloween party in an embarrassing pink bunny costume (he wanted to he a pirate) stumbles across a secret society of damaged, forgotten, and pissed-off toys in the basement of his friend's house--including the terrifying Am lie, not an adorable gamine played by Audrey Tautou --but a towering sentient assemblage of broken toy parts out for revenge With appearances in such anthologies as Kramers Ergot and Blab, St phane Blanquet has been delighting and terrifying American readers with his superslick, ultradetailed creepiness. So it makes perfect sense that his first graphic novel to be published in the U.S. would be... a children's book? Yes indeed.
Synopsis
With appearances in such anthologies as Zero Zero, BLAB and Kramers Ergot, St phane Blanquet has been delighting and terrifying American readers with his superslick, ultradetailed creepiness.
So it makes perfect sense that his first graphic novel to be published in the U.S. would be... a children's book? Yes indeed.
Our hero, attending a Halloween party in an embarrassing pink bunny costume (he wanted to he a pirate) stumbles across a secret society of damaged, forgotten, and pissed-off toys in the basement of his friend's house--including the terrifying Am lie, not an adorable gamine played by Audrey Tautou but a towering sentient assemblage of broken toy parts out for revenge
Imagine Toy Story as reimagined by David Lynch and Charles Burns and you'll have a good idea of what this story is like. And yes, it is for kids
Synopsis
A creepy kids' book from a French comics master.
About the Author
Stephane Blanquet lives in France, where he works as a cartoonist, animator, sculptor, and painter.