Imprint: Jonathan Cape
Published: 09/05/2013
ISBN: 9780224096287
Length: 240 Pages
Dimensions: 305mm x 26mm x 220mm
Weight: 1213g
RRP: £20.00
The job of the skin is to keep things in…
On the buttoned-down island of Here, all is well. By which we mean: orderly, neat, contained and, moreover, beardless.
Or at least it is until one famous day, when Dave, bald but for a single hair, finds himself assailed by a terrifying, unstoppable…monster*!
Where did it come from? How should the islanders deal with it? And what, most importantly, are they going to do with Dave?
The first book from a new leading light of UK comics, The Gigantic Beard That Was Evil is an off-beat fable worthy of Roald Dahl. It is about life, death and the meaning of beards.
(*We mean a gigantic beard, basically.)
Imprint: Jonathan Cape
Published: 09/05/2013
ISBN: 9780224096287
Length: 240 Pages
Dimensions: 305mm x 26mm x 220mm
Weight: 1213g
RRP: £20.00
It’s part satire, part parable, part nursery rhyme and part disaster movie, and it’s an utter joy to read.
Clever, funny and beautiful to look at… A fairytale for adults that children will also adore, The Gigantic Beard That Was Evil is surely destined to become a classic.
As splendiferous as its title… An inspired swirling of the mundane with the surreal, the plot may be simple but his satire on modern life is witty and thoughtful.
Collins’ wonderful debut unfolds with slow and simple elegance through black-and-white panels.
It reminds me of nothing so much as a Roald Dahl novel.