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By Roman Dirge (Titan Books)
ISBN 13 9781845760908
Lenore is a sweet little girl who has cute, if somewhat surreal, little adventures. Did I mention that she is also dead and has been for quite some time? Bleak, eccentric, and darkly comic strips featuring this little charmer and her strange coterie of acquaintances have been entertaining audiences since 1992 when she first appeared in the alternative arts magazine Xenophobe in San Diego. Slave Labor Graphics eventually picked up the character and this volume is a compilation of the first four issues, with the veiled threat of two more volumes to follow.
Richly dipped in the traditions of Charles Addams, and appealing to the same skewed and twisted audiences that follow “Squee!†and “Johnny the Homicidal Maniac†from Jhonen Vasquez or the more Goth inspired series such as “Gloom Cookieâ€, or even Giffen and Roman’s “i Luv Halloweenâ€, not to mention the animated films of Tim Burton, these weird and wonderful fables are an unwholesome treat for those kids of all ages with a taste for the darker flavours of life and it’s inevitable cessation. Try it, you might like it!
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