Delphine
by:
Richard Sala (author)
Richard Sala’s graphic novel retelling of Snow White recasts the fairy tale as a chiller from the Prince’s perspective.A mysterious traveler gets off the train in a small village surrounded by a thick, sinister forest. He is searching for Delphine, who vanished with only a scrawled-out address on...
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Richard Sala’s graphic novel retelling of Snow White recasts the fairy tale as a chiller from the Prince’s perspective.A mysterious traveler gets off the train in a small village surrounded by a thick, sinister forest. He is searching for Delphine, who vanished with only a scrawled-out address on a scrap of paper as a trace. In his newest chiller, Richard Sala takes the tale of Snow White and stands it on its head, retelling it from Prince Charming’s perspective (the unnamed traveler) in a contemporary setting. This twisted tale includes all the elements of terror from the original fairy tale, with none of the insipid saccharine coating of the Disney animated adaptation. Yes, there will be blood. Originally serialized as part of the acclaimed international “Ignatz” series, Delphine is executed in a rich and ominous duotone that shows off Sala’s virtuosity just as much as last year’s full-color post-apocalyptic horror fantasy The Hidden did — punctuated with stunning full-color chapter breaks. Yes
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9781606995907 (1606995901)
Publish date: January 18th 2013
Publisher: Fantagraphics
Pages no: 128
Edition language: English
Sala is the king of weird. His art is dark and twisted (as is his font). His graphic novels are intelligent and cinematic (this one reminded me of Hitchcock's THE BIRDS). I like how irrascible this main character is.
WTF did I read? This was dumb. Just dumb.
I was going to tag this for my horror shelf, but it is not quite horror. It is more dark fantasy, and a mystery at that perhaps. It is the tale of some guy who falls in love with a mysterious girl. When the girl vanishes, he goes out to find her. What he finds in her town is a nightmare that threate...
Wtf just happened? That's all I could think after I read this. I picked this up from the library after skimming through some goodreads reviews that said it was like a dark, twisted Snow White story in graphic novel form. That sounded awesome. Sadly, this story had no resemblance to me to Snow White ...
Snow White, if Snow White were twisted around almost beyond recognition - that's the best way I can think of to explain this story.The book follows the experiences of a young man looking for a love he lost a long time ago. He tracks her down to the village she came from, but things take a turn for t...