The fact of knowing how to read is nothing, the whole point is knowing what to read. — Jacques Ellul
The Tragical Comedy or Comical Tragedy of Mr. Punch - Neil Gaiman & Dave McKean
Gaiman and McKean team up on this eerie tale of a boy and his encounters with Mr. Punch. It's a mixture of tales about family memories and images of the Punch & Judy show, rendered in McKean's surreal photo-painting montages. The narrator relates the sort of things you overhear as a kid but don't realize the full import of later; affairs, arguments, and other surreptitious dealings. As was the case in Gaiman's Coraline, adults are generally more to be feared than the ghosts and goblins that inhabit the haunted houses. Delightfully creepy.
Fed to jhliu's brain | July 18, 2003
