The Envious Siblings: And Other Morbid Nursery Rhymes

By Landis Blair

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393651622
• ISBN13: 9780393651621
• Release Date: October 2019
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.08 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 7.2" x 7.0"