![]() ![]() The illustrations develop in complexity alongside the narrative. Warnings aside, the graphic novel is astoundingly beautiful, whether Pommepuy and Cosset render an 11-panel page packed with a range of angles and close-ups or just a single full-page image. ![]() ![]() It is not a bedtime story and, unless you want to put your children off princesses in the meanest possible fashion, you should keep it away from tender young eyes. Like the antiquated, unbowdlerized versions of fairytales left in old world Europe, it contains quite a bit of the darkness mentioned in its title: death, decay, haphazard cruelty, more death, betrayal, pain, maggot eating, cannibalism, public bodily functions and yet more death. This collaboration between Fabien Vehlmann and Kerascoët (the latter is a pseudonym for art team Marie Pommepuy and Sébastien Cosset) starts off like Alice in Wonderland, moves quickly into Candide and concludes like Kill Bill. ![]()
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