The Envious Siblings: And Other Morbid Nursery Rhymes

Inspired by the dark imagination of Edward Gorey, Envious Siblings is a twisted and hauntingly funny debut. Comics artist Landis Blair interweaves absurdist horror and humor into brief, rhyming vignettes at once transgressive and hilarious. In Blair's surreal universe, a lost child watches as bewhiskered monsters gobble up her fellow train passengers; a band of kids merrily plays a gut-churning game with playground toys; and two sisters, grinning madly, tear each other apart. These charmingly perverse creations take ordinary settings--a living room, a subway car, a playground--and spin them in a nightmarish direction.

Envious Siblings heralds a brilliant new cartooning talent, and will captivate readers who have thrilled to the lurid fantasies of Roald Dahl, Quentin Blake, Charles Addams, Shel Silverstein, and Tim Burton.

Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 10/08/2019
ISBN: 9780393651621
Pages: 240
Weight: 1.05lbs
Size: 7.00h x 7.20w x 0.90d

Review Citations: Library Journal 08/01/2019 pg. 77
Publishers Weekly 08/12/2019