Sunday, August 28, 2016

It Was a Dark and Silly Night... (2003)

Comics by Lemony Snicket, William Joyce, Neil Gaiman, and more! Ed. by Art Spiegelman & Francoise Mouly.

We were looking at comics and graphic novels for a display at the library and I picked this up randomly. What a delight! 14 authors/illustrators were asked to create something on the topic "It was a dark and silly night..." and the results were entertaining. The authors I was familiar with seemed familiar in their approach, e.g. Lemony Snicket and Neil Gaiman. Some told a story, some made a game out of it - order the panels in the right order, find the differences, fill in the story with your own random nouns, verbs, etc. or even finding items by Where's Waldo author.

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