Beautiful darkness / Fabien Vehlmann & Kerascoët.

By: Vehlmann, Fabien, 1972- [author.]Contributor(s): Kerascoët [artist.] | Pommepuy, Marie, 1978- [author.] | Dascher, Helge, 1965- [translator.]Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Original language: French Edition: First hardcover editionDescription: 94 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cmISBN: 9781770461291 (bound); 1770461299 (bound)Uniform titles: Jolies ténèbres. English. Subject(s): Princesses -- Comic books, strips, etc | Good and evil -- Comic books, strips, etcGenre/Form: Graphic novels. | Fairy tales. Summary: Kerascoët's and Fabien Vehlmann's unsettling and gorgeous anti-fairy tale is a searing condemnation of our vast capacity for evil writ tiny. Join princess Aurora and her friends as they journey to civilization's heart of darkness in a bleak allegory about surviving the human experience. The sweet faces and bright leaves of Kerascoët's delicate watercolors serve to highlight the evil that dwells beneath Vehlmann's story as pettiness, greed, and jealousy take over. Beautiful Darkness is a harrowing look behind the routine politeness and meaningless kindness of civilized society.
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Chiefly illustrations.

"Originally published in French as Jolies Ténèbres by Dupuis"--Page opposite page 1.

Kerascoët's and Fabien Vehlmann's unsettling and gorgeous anti-fairy tale is a searing condemnation of our vast capacity for evil writ tiny. Join princess Aurora and her friends as they journey to civilization's heart of darkness in a bleak allegory about surviving the human experience. The sweet faces and bright leaves of Kerascoët's delicate watercolors serve to highlight the evil that dwells beneath Vehlmann's story as pettiness, greed, and jealousy take over. Beautiful Darkness is a harrowing look behind the routine politeness and meaningless kindness of civilized society.

Translated from the French.

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