Toys in the Basement by Stéphane Blanquet
My rating: 4/5 cats
so, this is a luridly illustrated book which basically answers the question, “what if toy story 3 was not a disney movie and all those abandoned toys got their richly deserved revenge on those roughhousing kids. no, lotso, nooo!!
and also—i hope my stuffed rabbit knows that when his ear fell off, it was totally an accident.
oh, you crazy french people…
the story is good, not great, but has elements of greatness in it. but the art—i just love it. there are pages that remind me of Jim Woodring, mostly in the scenes like this:
i don’t know, maybe it is just the color scheme, or my ignorance of art, but they look similar to me:
but it might also be that they both create these intensely detailed worlds of insanity and detail. and i like that in a graphic novel. i like density. this gives me plenty to look at, and lets me add another book to me “creepy dolls” shelf.
everyone wins…
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