With A Children’s Book of Demons, Aaron Leighton has filled a book with demons, but they certainly aren’t diabolical, rather these spirits are adorable and iconic-Leighton is the designer behind Koyama Press’ very own icon: Kickass Annie-each one so well crafted, from their description to their illustration, that you expect them to walk off the page and star in their own Saturday morning cartoon.įor the past four years, Ben Sears has been building an incredible world of quirky characters and rip-roaring adventures under the Double+ banner. Akin to Pee Wee poking around the Playhouse and finding the frozen vegetables up to no good, and the dinosaurs in the wall dealing with a familial dispute, Bunny has found that his house holds much more crazy than clutter, as he quests for his lunch. Richard Scarry meets Regular Show in this surrealist slacker series of stories. Next we have Wowee Zonk alum Chris Kuzma making his solo debut with Lunch Quest. With her web comics and short story collection Through the Woods, Carroll has established herself as this generation’s preeminent horror cartoonist and here presents a truly modern horror feast preying on the psyche of today’s youth. Drawing on Romanticism, Gothicism, videogames, myth, horror, feminism, furries, and fan culture Carroll’s comics are a melange of Atwood and anime, Blake and body horror. Agent: Jen Linnan, Linnan Literary Management.Castles, quests, demons, and ghosts fill the pages of our Spring 2019 season.įirst up, we are incredibly excited to bring Emily Carroll’s When I Arrived at the Castle from out of the long shadows and perilous corridors. In the most explicitly gruesome story, a dowdy girl named Mabel is forced to stay with her prosperous brother and his perfect wife, who, Mabel begins to see, is a monster inhabiting the skin of a human: 'I only wanted to wear her,' the wife says dreamily of the housekeeper, whose bloodied wrist Mabel has spotted, 'but when I tried her on, there was no stretch left.' Instead of the gratifying defeat of evil, the gothic stories often leave off unsettlingly with a twist of the knife, just at the moment some fresh horror beckons. Carefully drawn clothing and furnishings provide ironic backdrops for Lovecraftian revelations of parasitical possession and hideous evil. Sure in her handling of line, color, and sequential art techniques, she revels in period settings, placing her five stories in identifiable historical eras that include colonial North America and the Roaring Twenties. Canadian graphic artist Carroll uses familiar horror motifs%E2%80%94the first wife's ghost, the monster that dwells in the forest%E2%80%94to create fresh and disturbing tales.

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